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Goldsboro (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
ted, but marched in the general direction of Goldsboro. All the Confederate garrisons of points berolina, and crossed the Cape Fear to move on Goldsboro, where he expected to make a junction with G Fear River, and at once began its march for Goldsboro — the Seventeenth Corps still on the right, Averysboro the left wing turned east toward Goldsboro, the Fourteenth Corps leading. I remained wSchofield and Terry, known to be approaching Goldsboro. I overtook General Howard at Falling Creekthe roads all being clear, our army moved to Goldsboro. The heaviest fighting at Bentonville was opatch to General Schofield, then approaching Goldsboro: Since making my dispatch to-day (2 P. M on Cox's Bridge to-morrow. You must secure Goldsboro, and fortify. At the same hour he dispaso that we have our back toward Faison's and Goldsboro. General Schofield was to leave Kinston fortler. * * * * We resumed the march toward Goldsboro. I was with the left wing until I supposed [8 more...]
New Bern (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
hed Fayetteville, North Carolina, and crossed the Cape Fear to move on Goldsboro, where he expected to make a junction with General Schofield, then advancing from Newbern. From this point, in a letter to General Grant, dated March 12, 1865, he said: Jos. Johnston may try to interpose between me here and Schofield about NewbernNewbern, but I think he will not try that, but concentrate his scattered armies at Raleigh, and I will go straight at him as soon as I get our men reclothed and our wagons reloaded. And in another letter of the same date to General Terry, he wrote: I can whip Jos. Johnston provided he does not catch one of my corps in flank, and Fayetteville, North Carolina, on Tuesday, the 14th instant, that I was all ready to start for Goldsboro, to which point I had also ordered General Schofield from Newbern and General Terry from Wilmington. I knew that General Jos. Johnston was in supreme command against me, and that he would have tried to concentrate a respectable
Fayetteville (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
moking South Carolina, with its ruined railroads, behind him; his four corps had converged at Fayetteville, and there crossed the Cape Fear River. Here the right and left wings again separated, but mvers as the Santee and Cape Fear a difficult undertaking. His whole army reached Fayetteville, North Carolina, and crossed the Cape Fear to move on Goldsboro, where he expected to make a junctionen to fifteen miles apart, and each wing was strung out at great length. Of the start from Fayetteville, General Sherman writes: I then knew that my special antagonist, General Jos. Johnston, wmns. But he reckoned without his host. I had expected just such a movement all the way from Fayetteville, and was prepared for it. From the above extracts it is quite evident that Johnston attee affair of Bentonville at length, the following passage occurs: I wrote you from Fayetteville, North Carolina, on Tuesday, the 14th instant, that I was all ready to start for Goldsboro, to which
Savannah (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
r. Unlike the march from Atlanta to the sea, that from Savannah northward through the Carolinas originated with General Sons of General Grant contemplated an entrenched camp near Savannah, and the transportation of the bulk of Sherman's force bynt. General Sherman was very anxious, however, to capture Savannah, and then march northward by land. The reasons he gave German's plan as better than his own. The campaign from Savannah was in every way more difficult and hazardous than the mao the march of an army. But from the moment of leaving Savannah grave difficulties were to be expected at every step. Thxpressed great admiration for the campaign northward from Savannah and astonishment at its success. They had confidently exes some important omissions. Concerning the start from Savannah northward, General Sherman writes: I knew full well aosed to invite a general battle, for we had been out from Savannah since the latter part of January, and our wagon trains co
Wilmington, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
sboro, to which point I had also ordered General Schofield from Newbern and General Terry from Wilmington. I knew that General Jos. Johnston was in supreme command against me, and that he would have s repeatedly of Generals Schofield and Terry as if they were independent commanders, and says: Wilmington was captured by General Terry on the 22d of February. Accurately, General Terry's forces formed a portion of the command of General Schofield, and advanced on Wilmington upon the left bank of the Cape Fear River, while the Twenty-Third Corps formed the other part of Schofield's army, and adsecured the main crossing over that strongly guarded stream, and opened the way to the rear of Wilmington, which, as a consequence, was immediately evacuated. As General Schofield directed all the moear of Wilmington, which, as a consequence, was immediately evacuated. As General Schofield directed all the movements, a careful writer would have said Wilmington was captured by General Schofield.
Bentonville (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
ch occurred before the facts connected with Bentonville could be disclosed, and the appalling death, Johnston had offered to surrender, and so Bentonville passed almost unnoticed. It is just to Gwell to the rear, was turned at once toward Bentonville; Hazen's division was ordered to Slocum's fme left flank, and was pushing straight for Bentonville and the bridge across Mill Creek. I ordereMill Creek. I ordered him back to connect with his own corps, and, lest the enemy should concentrate on him, ordered theved to Goldsboro. The heaviest fighting at Bentonville was on the first day, viz.: the 19th, when sful attack on my left wing yesterday, near Bentonville. I am just starting with my right wing to men find parapets from the road well down to Mill Creek. Johnston hoped to overcome your wing before Johnston himself was, at the bridge across Mill Creek. Last night he retreated, leaving us in poshe 21st. The situation of affairs around Bentonville, then, was about this: With a full knowledg[14 more...]
Augusta (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
dable in contending the passage of the larger rivers. On the right were the garrisons of Charleston, Georgetown, and Wilmington. There was reason to expect that a portion of Hood's army would arrive on the left and strike from the direction of Augusta. Lastly, Wade Hampton, then popular in South Carolina, had been sent down from Lee's army to rally an opposing force. And, as the result proved, before serious battle was delivered, an army estimated at thirty-seven thousand veteran Confederatortant omissions. Concerning the start from Savannah northward, General Sherman writes: I knew full well at the time that the broken fragments of Hood's army (which had escaped from Tennessee) were being hurried rapidly across Georgia, by Augusta, to make junction in my front, estimating them at the maximum, twenty-five thousand men, and Hardee's, Wheeler's, and Hampton's forces at fifteen thousand, made forty thousand, which, if handled with spirit and energy, would constitute a formida
Twining (search for this): chapter 16
n his left rear to-day, and have been skirmishing pretty hard all day. We have opened communication with General Slocum, who had a hard fight yesterday. We are now ready for battle, if Johnston desires it, to-morrow; but as he has failed to overcome one wing he will hardly invite battle with both. I don't want to fight now or here, and therefore won't object to his drawing off to-night toward Smithfield, as he should. To General Schofield he wrote, March 21, from Bentonville: Captain Twining is here, and I send by him an order that you will perceive looks to staying here some days. I thought Johnston, having failed as he attempted to crush one of my wings, finding he had not succeeded, but that I was present with my whole force, would withdraw; but he has not, and I must fight him here. He is twenty (20) miles from Smithfield, and with a bad road to his rear, but his position is in the swamps, difficult of approach, and I don't like to assail his parapets, which are of
Wheeler (search for this): chapter 16
connected with this action into bolder relief than any other of his mistakes of which he treats. But the official record supplies some important omissions. Concerning the start from Savannah northward, General Sherman writes: I knew full well at the time that the broken fragments of Hood's army (which had escaped from Tennessee) were being hurried rapidly across Georgia, by Augusta, to make junction in my front, estimating them at the maximum, twenty-five thousand men, and Hardee's, Wheeler's, and Hampton's forces at fifteen thousand, made forty thousand, which, if handled with spirit and energy, would constitute a formidable force, and might make the passage of such rivers as the Santee and Cape Fear a difficult undertaking. His whole army reached Fayetteville, North Carolina, and crossed the Cape Fear to move on Goldsboro, where he expected to make a junction with General Schofield, then advancing from Newbern. From this point, in a letter to General Grant, dated March
C. R. Wood (search for this): chapter 16
le I would come on his rear from the east. The Fifteenth Corps, less one division (Hazen's), still well to the rear, was turned at once toward Bentonville; Hazen's division was ordered to Slocum's flank; and orders were also sent for General Blair, with the Seventeenth Corps, to come to the same destination. Meantime the sound of cannon came from the direction of Bentonville. The night of the 19th caught us near Falling Creek Church; but early the next morning the Fifteenth Corps, General C. R. Wood's division leading, closed down on Bentonville, near which it was brought up by encountering a line of fresh parapet, crossing the road and extending north toward Mill Creek. After deploying, I ordered General Howard to proceed with due caution, using skirmishers alone, till he had made junction with General Slocum, on his left. These deployments occupied all day, during which two divisions of the Seventeenth Corps also got up. At that time General Johnston's army occupied the form
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