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Arkansas (United States) (search for this): chapter 11
to have some assurance that, in case of necessity, I can swing into Appalachicola or Montgomery, and find friends. W. T. Sherman, Major-General commanding. By telegraph from new Orleans, 17th September, via Cairo, 24th. Major-General Sherman. Your dispatch of the 10th has just been received. The plans you suggested have been under consideration, and preparations are now in progress. I think I can give you the assurance that you will find friends in Mobile, if the trouble in Arkansas River should be soon ended, how far east of that will depend upon the reenforcements that can be spared for this command? Ed. R. Canby, Major-General. Kingston, Georgia, November 7, 1864. General Canby, New Orleans. Beauregard has left Georgia altogether and shifted across to the neighborhood of Florence, Alabama, threatening to invade Tennessee. We are all ready for him there, and I have still an army with which to go on. If you hear I have destroyed Atlanta and marched south, be p
Savannah (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
o destroy Atlanta and march across Georgia to Savannah or Charleston, breaking railroads and doing ie I construed it to mean Ossabaw sound, below Savannah, which was correct. [General Sherman gives noding one-half to Mobile and the other half to Savannah. You could then move as proposed in your telington is sealed to commerce, and the city of Savannah is in our possession. * * * * If you will hether, under such circumstances, Augusta and Savannah would not be a better line than Selma, Montgoto think it necessary for Grant to first take Savannah, and Canby to take Columbus. Any route throuis imperfect, and I can not make out whether Savannah or Mobile be preferred; but I also want to knperating forces to proceed to the coast below Savannah and move inland against the Gulf Railroad. Tan take Macon, Milledgeville, Augusta, and Savannah, Ga., and wind up with closing the neckband of n Columbus, will move via Macon and Millen to Savannah; or, if I feign on Macon, you may take it fo[19 more...]
Cumberland Gap (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
as it is settled that he must be left in that region, you will be allowed to proceed south with the main body of your forces, leaving, of course, a sufficient number of troops to observe Longstreet, and prevent his getting hold of Knoxville, Cumberland Gap, or any other controlling point now in our hands. To my suggestion that the surest means of getting the rebels altogether out of East Tennesseee is to be found in the Army of the Potomac; the reply is, that that is true, but from that armyting a very elaborate plan for an advance from Murfreesboro to Mobile, through Atlanta. It involved the immediate abandonment of Grant's move against Vicksburg, and the transfer of his army to Rosecrans' front, an advance by Burnside through Cumberland Gap, the occupation of Chattanooga with a permanent garrison of sixty thousand men, and a movement thence on Atlanta with a force at least one hundred and fifty thousand strong. At the same time he proposed that forty thousand men from the Easte
Rodgersville (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
viding for them. You would be authorized to proceed immediately with its execution but for the anxiety which seems to exist respecting East Tennessee. If Longstreet were expelled from that country, you could stars for Mobile at once; I suppose General Halleck will communicate with you fully on this subject. I judge from my conversation with him that he does not understand clearly how an army, large enough to make Longstreet's dislodgment certain, can be supplied while operating against Rogersville and Bristol, and accordingly I presume that, first, as soon as it is settled that he must be left in that region, you will be allowed to proceed south with the main body of your forces, leaving, of course, a sufficient number of troops to observe Longstreet, and prevent his getting hold of Knoxville, Cumberland Gap, or any other controlling point now in our hands. To my suggestion that the surest means of getting the rebels altogether out of East Tennesseee is to be found in the Army o
Huntsville (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
sboro he also had General Rousseau's division, which was full five thousand strong, independent of the necessary garrisons for the railroad. At Decatur and Huntsville, Alabama, was the infantry division of General R. S. Granger, estimated at four thousand, and near Florence, Alabama, watching the crossings of the Tennessee, were Gapron's brigade, of about twelve hundred (1,200). The balance of my force was distributed along the railroad, and posted at Murfreesboro, Stevenson, Bridgeport, Huntsville, Decatur, and Chattanooga, to keep open our communications, and hold the posts above named, if attacked, until they could be reenforced, as up to this time it was impossible to determine which course Hood would take—advance on Nashville, or turn toward Huntsville. Under the circumstances, it was manifestly best to act on the defensive until sufficiently reenforced to justify taking the offensive. * * * * It was therefore with considerable anxiety that we watched the forces at Florenc
Macon (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
broken by the enemy's cavalry that swarms about us. Macon is distant one hundred and three miles and Augusta o Milledgeville and compel Hood to give up Augusta or Macon, and could then turn on the other. The country willmove as proposed in your telegram, so as to threaten Macon and Augusta equally, Whichever one should be abandonay to be in Savannah I will insure our possession of Macon and a point on the river below Augusta. * * * T will turn up somewhere, and, believe me, I can take Macon, Milledgeville, Augusta, and Savannah, Ga., and wind Incidentally I might destroy the enemy's depots at Macon and Augusta, and reach the sea-shore at Charleston oville; that I break up the road between Columbus and Macon good; and then, if I feign on Columbus, will move via Macon and Millen to Savannah; or, if I feign on Macon, you may take it for granted that I have shot off towaMacon, you may take it for granted that I have shot off toward Opelika, Montgomery and Mobile Bay or Pensacola. The following extracts from the final report of Genera
Cairo, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
en communication to Montgomery, but I doubt if you will have troops enough until the September draft. I can press on Atlanta good, but I do not want Kirby Smith here. * * * * W. T. Sherman, Major-General new Orleans, August 27th. By way of Cairo, September 9th, Received at headquarters, September 29, 1864. Major-General Sherman. * * * * I have a reserve of twelve thousand men up the river to watch Kirby Smith. I do not think he can cross in any force without being discovered in timeforth again in October, but ought to have some assurance that, in case of necessity, I can swing into Appalachicola or Montgomery, and find friends. W. T. Sherman, Major-General commanding. By telegraph from new Orleans, 17th September, via Cairo, 24th. Major-General Sherman. Your dispatch of the 10th has just been received. The plans you suggested have been under consideration, and preparations are now in progress. I think I can give you the assurance that you will find friends i
Saltville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
with the Army of the Potomac, increased by Burnside's corps of not less than twenty-five thousand (25,000) effective men, and operate directly against Lee's army wherever it may be found. Sigel collects all his available force in two columns—one, under Ord and Averill, to start from Beverly, Virginia; and the other, under Crooke, to start from Charleston, on the Kanawha, to move against the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad. Crooke will have all cavalry, and will endeavor to get in about Saltville and move east from there to join Ord. His force will be all cavalry, while Ord will have from ten to twelve thousand men of all arms. You I propose to move against Johnston's army, to break it up, and to get into the interior of the enemy's country as far as you can, inflicting all the damage you can against their war resources. I do not propose to lay down for you a plan of campaign, but simply to lay down the work it is desirable to have done, and leave you free to execute in your
Decatur, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
was more positive in my conviction, but was in doubt as to the time and manner. When General Hood first struck our railroad above Marietta we were not ready, and I was forced to watch his movements further till he had caromed off to the west of Decatur. Then I was perfectly convinced, and had no longer a shadow of doubt. The only possible question was as to Thomas' strength and ability to meet Hood in the open field.—Page 166. Hood shifted to Palmetto September 21st; Davis' speech was on the 26th of September, and Hood moved to the west of Decatur October 26th; so that Sherman's account fixes the following points for himself: The move was in his mind's eye, September 21, 1864. He was in doubt as to time and manner after September 26. He had no doubt about the move October 26. The points of the narrative, in the chapter devoted to the question of planning the March to the Sea, are these: Hood having moved upon Sherman's railroad communications, General Thomas r
Columbia (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
re a million of people find subsistence, my army won't starve. * * * * I will, therefore, give it as my opinion that your army and Canby's should be reenforced to the maximum; that, after you get Wilmington, you should strike for Savannah and its river; that General Canby should hold the Mississippi River, and send a force to take Columbus, Georgia, either by way of the Alabama or Appalachicola River; that I should keep Hood employed, and put my army in fine order for a march on Augusta, Columbia, and Charleston, and start as soon as Wilmington is sealed to commerce, and the city of Savannah is in our possession. * * * * If you will secure Wilmington and the city of Savannah from your center, and let General Canby have command over the Mississippi River and the country west of it, I will send a force to the Alabama and Appalachicola, provided you give me one hundred thousand of the drafted men to fill up my old regiments; and if you will fix a day to be in Savannah I will insure
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