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San Juan River (Florida, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 23
tion in the premises. All that I now propose to assert is, that Mr. Stanton, Secretary of War, saw these orders in the rough, and approved every paragraph thereof, before they were made public: [special field orders, no. 15.] headquarters military division of the Mississippi, in the field, Savannah, Georgia, January 16, 1865. 1. The islands from Charleston south, the abandoned rice-fields along the rivers for thirty miles back from the sea, and the country bordering the St. John's River, Florida, are reserved and set apart for the settlement of the negroes now made free by the acts of war and the proclamation of the President of the United States. 2. At Beaufort, Hilton Head, Savannah, Fernandina, St. Augustine, and Jacksonville, the blacks may remain in their chosen or accustomed vocations; but on the islands, and in the settlements hereafter to be established, no white person whatever, unless military officers and soldiers detailed for duty, will be permitted to resid
King's Bridge (Alabama, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 23
ossession of all property pertaining to his department captured from the enemy, and cause the same to be collected and conveyed to points of security; all the heavy coast-guns will be dismounted and carried to Fort Pulaski. 4. The troops, for the present, will be grouped about the city of Savannah, looking to convenience of camps; General Slocum taking from the Savannah River around to the seven-mile post on the canal, and General Howard thence to the sea; General Kilpatrick will hold King's Bridge until Fort McAllister is dismantled, and the troops withdrawn from the south side of the Ogeechee, when he will take post about Anderson's plantation, on the plank-road, and picket all the roads leading from the north and west. 5. General Howard will keep a small guard at Forts Rosedale, Beaulieu, Wimberley, Thunderbolt, and Bonaventura, and he will cause that shore and Skidaway Island to be examined very closely, with a view to finding many and convenient points for the embarkation o
Augusta (Georgia, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 23
when the war was actually over. I concluded to give them the option to remain or to join their friends in Charleston or Augusta, and so announced in general orders. The mayor, Dr. Arnold, was completely subjugated, and, after consulting with him, rolina. Of course, I gave out with some ostentation, especially among the rebels, that we were going to Charleston or Augusta; but I had long before made up my mind to waste no time on either, further than to play off on their fears, thus to retat will be eating up the same stores on which Lee depends for his command. I have no doubt Hood will bring his army to Augusta. Canby and Thomas should penetrate Alabama as far as possible, to keep employed at least a part of Hood's army; or, whaand seem to be merely watching us. If we start on Tuesday, in one week we shall be near Orangeburg, having broken up the Augusta road from the Edisto westward twenty or twenty-five miles. I will be sure that every rail is twisted. Should we encount
Ebenezer Creek (Georgia, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 23
ule, we preferred white soldiers, but that we employed a large force of them as servants, teamsters, and pioneers, who had rendered admirable service. He then showed me a newspaper account of General Davis taking up his pontoon-bridge across Ebenezer Creek, leaving sleeping negro men, women, and children, on the other side, to be slaughtered by Wheeler's cavalry. I had heard such a rumor, and advised Mr. Stanton, before becoming prejudiced, to allow me to send for General Davis, which he did, f his pontoon-train — the head of his column reaching some deep, impassable creek before the rear was fairly over another. He had occasionally to use the pontoons both day and night. On the occasion referred to, the bridge was taken up from Ebenezer Creek while some of the camp-followers remained asleep on the farther side, and these were picked up by Wheeler's cavalry. Some of them, in their fright, were drowned in trying to swim over, and others may have been cruelly killed by Wheeler's men
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 23
on without delay. Break up the railroads in South and North Carolina, and join the armies operating against Richmond as soohis, you could strike either of the sea-coast ports in North Carolina held by us. From there you could take shipping. It woal advantages of breaking up the railways of South and North Carolina, and the greater object of uniting my army with that oof the South had been enlarged to embrace the coast of North Carolina, so that the few troops serving there, under the commafield was also known to be en route from Nashville for North Carolina, with the entire Twenty-third Corps, so that I had eveions to General Foster, based on the reenforcements of North Carolina; but if Schofield come, you had better relieve Foster,im the chief command of all troops at Cape Fear and in North Carolina. If he finds the enemy has all turned south against m. I did instruct him, while awaiting information from North Carolina, to have them build a good trestle-bridge across Port
Beaufort, S. C. (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 23
lery by transports to head of Broad River and Beaufort; reestablish Port Royal Ferry, and mass the w week to transfer from Thunderbolt to Beaufort, South Carolina. Admiral Dahlgren had supplied the Ha the President of the United States. 2. At Beaufort, Hilton Head, Savannah, Fernandina, St. Augusd horses, I embarked in a steamer for Beaufort, South Carolina, touching at Hilton Head, to see GeneThe weather was rainy and bad, but we reached Beaufort safely on the 23d, and found some of General river of that name. All the country between Beaufort and Pocotaligo was low alluvial land, cut up eston. On the 24th of January I started from Beaufort with a part of my staff, leaving the rest to oroa (with its railroad communication back to Beaufort and Wilmington). If Lee lets us get that posi On the 3d the transfer of the right wing to Beaufort was begun, and the only suitable vessel I hader of the right wing (thirty thousand men) to Beaufort will so imperil the rebel force at Hardeevill
Annapolis (Maryland, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 23
Your letters brought by General Barnard were received at City Point, and read with interest. Not having them with me, however, I cannot say that in this I will be able to satisfy you on all points of recommendation. As I arrived here at 1 P. M., and must leave at 6 P. M., having in the mean time spent over three hours with the secretary and General Halleck, I must be brief. Before your last request to have Thomas make a campaign into the heart of Alabama, I had ordered Schofield to Annapolis, Maryland, with his corps. The advance (six thousand) will reach the sea-board by the 23d, the remainder following as rapidly as railroad transportation can be procured from Cincinnati. The corps numbers over twenty-one thousand men. . . . . . . . . . Thomas is still left with a sufficient force, surplus to go to Selma under an energetic leader. He has been telegraphed to, to know whether ho could go, and, if so, by which of several routes he would select. No reply is yet received. Can
United States (United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 23
ents will be paid by the Government of the United States during the war, and all buildings must be act of hostility to the Government of the United States, he or she will be punished with the utmostitles can be settled by the courts of the United States. 3. The Mayor and City Council of Savanre given: headquarters armies of the United States, City Point, Virginia, December 27, 1864. t home and the enlistments be made for the United States under the direction of General Sherman. d the proclamation of the President of the United States. 2. At Beaufort, Hilton Head, Savannah,d securing their rights as citizens of the United States. Negroes so enlisted will be organized as enlisted in the military service of the United States, he may locate his family in any one of thSavannah was prize of war, belonged to the United States, and nobody should recover a bale of it wione can practise law as an attorney in the United States without acknowledging the supremacy of our[15 more...]
Paris, Ky. (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 23
reets perfectly regular, crossing each other at right angles; and at many of the intersections were small inclosures in the nature of parks. These streets and parks were lined with the handsomest shade-trees of which I have knowledge, viz., the willowleaf live-oak, evergreens of exquisite beauty; and these certainly entitled Savannah to its reputation as a handsome town more than the houses, which, though comfortable, would hardly make a display on Fifth Avenue or the Boulevard Haussmann of Paris. The city was built on a plateau of sand about forty feet above the level of the sea, abutting against the river, leaving room along its margin for a street of stores and warehouses. The customhouse, court-house, post-office, etc., were on the plateau above. In rear of Savannah was a large park, with a fountain, and between it and the court-house was a handsome monument, erected to the memory of Count Pulaski, who fell in 1779 in the assault made on the city at the time it was held by the
Purysburg (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 23
and during Saturday, the 14th of January, by a pontoon-bridge, and marched out to Garden's Corners, where there was some light skirmishing; the next day, Sunday, they continued on to Pocotaligo, finding the strong fort there abandoned, and accordingly made a lodgment on the railroad, having lost only two officers and eight men. About the same time General Slocum crossed two divisions of the Twentieth Corps over the Savannah River, above the city, occupied Hardeeville by one division and Purysburg by another. Thus, by the middle of January, we had effected a lodgment in South Carolina, and were ready to resume the march northward; but we had not yet accumulated enough provisions and forage to fill the wagons, and other causes of delay occurred, of which I will make mention in due order. On the last day of December, 1864, Captain Breese, United States Navy, flag-officer to Admiral Porter, reached Savannah, bringing the first news of General Butler's failure at Fort Fisher, and th
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