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December 26th (search for this): chapter 12
If you capture the garrison of Savannah it certainly will compel Lee to detach from Richmond, or give us nearly the whole South. * * * * Congratulating you and the army again upon the splendid results of your campaign, the like of which is not read of in past history, I subscribe myself more than ever, if possible, your friend. Eight days after, when the news arrived of the capture of Savannah and the escape of Hardee, it was guardedly acknowledged by Grant as follows, under date of December 26th: General: Your very interesting letter of the 22d inst., brought by Major Gray, of General Foster's staff, is just at hand. As the Major starts back at once, I can do no more at present than simply acknowledge its receipt. The capture of Savannah with all its immense stores must tell upon the people of the South. All well here. Under the same date Secretary Stanton telegraphed Grant at City Point: I wish you a merry Christmas, if it is not too late, and thank you for the
December 10th (search for this): chapter 12
od had so often checked upon the Atlanta campaign, had marched down to the sea, the roads before him, wherever he might choose, being, as he expressed it in a dispatch to Grant, all open, with no serious enemy to oppose at present. On the 10th of December Sherman, with sixty thousand men, had announced the investment of Savannah garrisoned by Hardee with a force supposed to be fifteen thousand. On the 17th he had demanded its surrender, and been refused on the ground that he had not investedh Wheeler's cavalry, which persistently followed him. But the infantry columns had met with no opposition whatever. * * * * That night (December 8) we reached Pooler's Station, eight miles from Savannah, and during the next two days, December 9 and 10, the several corps reached the defenses of Savannah, * * * * thus completely investing the city. This question of investing the city involves the one of responsibility for the escape of Hardee, and will bear a little attention. On the 13th
December 9th (search for this): chapter 12
ation than the sight of our camps by night, lit up by the fires of fragrant pine knots. * * * * No enemy opposed us, and we could only occasionally hear the faint reverberation of a gun to our left rear, where we knew that General Kilpatrick was skirmishing with Wheeler's cavalry, which persistently followed him. But the infantry columns had met with no opposition whatever. * * * * That night (December 8) we reached Pooler's Station, eight miles from Savannah, and during the next two days, December 9 and 10, the several corps reached the defenses of Savannah, * * * * thus completely investing the city. This question of investing the city involves the one of responsibility for the escape of Hardee, and will bear a little attention. On the 13th December General Sherman wrote Mr. Stanton, as quoted at page 201, Volume II: Before opening communication we had completely destroyed all railroads leading into Savannah and invested the city. And on the 16th to General Grant, qu
March (search for this): chapter 12
hat the men that were in Savannah will be lost, in a measure, to Jeff. Davis, for the Georgia troops under G. W. Smith declared they would not fight in South Carolina, and they have gone north en route for Augusta; and I have reason to believe the North Carolina troops have gone to Wilmington; in other words, they are scattered. But these reflections will scarcely break the force of Mr. Stanton's words, heretofore quoted, from a dispatch to General Grant: It is a sore disappointment that Hardee was able to get off his fifteen thousand from Sherman's sixty thousand. It looks like protracting the war while their armies continue to escape. It might be supposed that in treating of the Savannah campaign after the lapse of so many years, General Sherman would not introduce matter reflecting upon Thomas, whose victory at Nashville furnished the only justification for the March to the Sea. How far he does violence to so charitable a supposition will appear in another chapter.
December 8th (search for this): chapter 12
s fine, the roads good, and every thing seemed to favor us Never do I recall a more agreeable sensation than the sight of our camps by night, lit up by the fires of fragrant pine knots. * * * * No enemy opposed us, and we could only occasionally hear the faint reverberation of a gun to our left rear, where we knew that General Kilpatrick was skirmishing with Wheeler's cavalry, which persistently followed him. But the infantry columns had met with no opposition whatever. * * * * That night (December 8) we reached Pooler's Station, eight miles from Savannah, and during the next two days, December 9 and 10, the several corps reached the defenses of Savannah, * * * * thus completely investing the city. This question of investing the city involves the one of responsibility for the escape of Hardee, and will bear a little attention. On the 13th December General Sherman wrote Mr. Stanton, as quoted at page 201, Volume II: Before opening communication we had completely destroyed al
December 14th (search for this): chapter 12
l commence the movement before daylight. December 21.—General Jackson: The General commanding directs that General Carman's brigade be moved to this side of the river, leaving one regiment on the island for the present. He wishes the brigade encamped on this side so that they will protect the two rice mills. Colonel Charles C. Jones, Chief of Artillery on the staff of General Hardee during the siege of Savannah, in a work which he has published, thus describes the evacuation: December 14.—The evacuation of Savannah having been resolved upon, and it being impracticable by means of the few steamboats and river craft at command to cross the garrison, artillery, and requisite stores with convenience and safety to Screven's Ferry, orders were issued for the immediate construction of suitable pontoon bridges. The line of retreat selected by the engineers, and adopted upon the evacuation of the city, involved the location of a pontoon bridge extending from the foot of West Broa
December 13th (search for this): chapter 12
the several corps reached the defenses of Savannah, * * * * thus completely investing the city. This question of investing the city involves the one of responsibility for the escape of Hardee, and will bear a little attention. On the 13th December General Sherman wrote Mr. Stanton, as quoted at page 201, Volume II: Before opening communication we had completely destroyed all railroads leading into Savannah and invested the city. And on the 16th to General Grant, quoted on pagement threatening the rebel line of communication: December 11.—To General Geary: The General commanding directs that, if you can find any boats in the river, you send fifty or sixty men to Hutchinson's Island to ascertain what they can. December 13.—To General Geary: The General commanding directs that the forty-seven men of your command, under Major Hoyt, now on Hutchinson's Island, remain there until further orders. Deember 16.—To Colonel Hawley: The General commanding the corps dir<
December 11th (search for this): chapter 12
night General Geary reported to me that the movements across the river were still going on. The different commanders were instructed to keep on the alert and press their pickets close to the rebel works, but the enemy, intending to abandon his heavy guns, kept up a fire until the moment of quitting the works. The following orders from General Slocum's headquarters to various officers under his command show the details of this movement threatening the rebel line of communication: December 11.—To General Geary: The General commanding directs that, if you can find any boats in the river, you send fifty or sixty men to Hutchinson's Island to ascertain what they can. December 13.—To General Geary: The General commanding directs that the forty-seven men of your command, under Major Hoyt, now on Hutchinson's Island, remain there until further orders. Deember 16.—To Colonel Hawley: The General commanding the corps directs that you have all the boats in your charge, or in that <
December 18th (search for this): chapter 12
t no one has more justly earned promotion by devoted, disinterested, and valuable services to his country. On the 18th of December, in a letter to Sherman of warm congratulation over the success of the march to Savannah, General Grant added: mn with my department. The effect of this last communication General Sherman thus relates (page 216): On the 18th of December, at my camp by the side of the plank road, eight miles back of Savannah, I received General Hardee's letter declinineading into South Carolina, and I knew that Hardee would have a pontoon bridge across the river. On the same day, December 18, he wrote General Grant in reference to this incredulousness of Hardee, as follows: In relation to Savannah, you wion. He wishes him to take only such force as can be readily brought back in case the enemy be too strong for him. December 18.—To Colonel Carman: The Brigadier-General commanding the corps directs that you cross your command to the South Caroli
December 16th (search for this): chapter 12
the day before its evacuation, was sixty thousand five hundred and ninety-eight men. Hardee's field returns for the same day showed an aggregate for his garrison, of all arms and all sorts, of nine thousand and eighty-nine men. On the 16th of December General Sherman, in a letter to General Grant, gave this opinion of the Confederate strength: I think Hardee, in Savannah, has good artillerists; some five or six thousand good infantry, and, it may be, a mongrel mass of eight to ten thol commanding the corps directs that you have all the boats in your charge, or in that of Colonel Bloodgood, on your side of the river by 8 A. M. to-morrow, and in readiness to cross troops. The whole of Colonel Carman's brigade will cross. December 16.—To General Jackson: In accordance with directions from the General commanding the corps, the order for Colonel Carman to cross his brigade to the South Carolina side of the Savannah River to-morrow morning is hereby countermanded. The Gene
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