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Marietta (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
traint, except with the column of the regular foraging parties. * * The country was necessarily left to take care of itself and became a howling waste. The Coffee Coolers of the Army of the Potomac were archangels compared to our bummers, who often fell to the tender mercies of Wheeler's cavalry, and were never heard of again, meeting a fate richly deserved. Another Northern soldier writing for the Detroit Free Press, gives the following graphic account: After describing the burning of Marietta, in which the writer says, among other things, soldiers rode from house to house, entered without ceremony, and kindled fires in garrets and closets and stood by to see that they were not extinguished. He then further says: Had one been able to climb to such a height at Atlanta as to enable him to see for forty miles around, the day Sherman marched out, he would have been appalled at the destruction. Hundreds of houses had been burned, every rod of fence destroyed, nearly every fru
Little Fort Valley (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
ock, October 7, 1864, he says of his work: In moving back to this point the whole country, from the Blue Ridge to the North Mountain, has been made untenable for the rebel army. I have destroyed over 2,000 barns filled with wheat and hay and farming implements; over 70 mills filled with flour and wheat; have driven in front of the army over 4,000 head of stock, and have killed and issued to the troops not less than 3,000 sheep. This destruction embraces the Luray Valley and Little Fort Valley, as well as the main valley. A large number of horses have been obtained, a proper estimate of which I cannot now make. Lieutenant John R. Meigs, my engineer officer, was murdered beyond Harrisonburg, near Dayton. For this atrocious act all the houses within an area of five miles were burned. It is not generally known, we believe, that this policy of devastation on the part of Sheridan was directly inspired and ordered by General Grant, who, in his Memoirs, writes with great
Atlanta (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
gion of country thirty miles on either side of a line from Atlanta to Savannah; also the sweet potatoes, hogs, sheep, and pousays: Had one been able to climb to such a height at Atlanta as to enable him to see for forty miles around, the day Shent to become vandals. * * * * When Sherman cut loose from Atlanta everybody had license to throw off restraint and make Geor license an army to become vandals should mount a horse at Atlanta and follow Sherman's route for fifty miles. He can hear stir clothing. He then tells of the deliberate burning of Atlanta, by Sherman's order, of the driving out from the city of icorrespondence between Mayor Calhoun and two councilmen of Atlanta, representing to General Sherman the frightful suffering ttion to revoke my orders removing all the inhabitants from Atlanta. I have read it carefully, and give full credit to your sture struggles in which millions of good people outside of Atlanta have a deep interest, &c. * * After he had started on h
Lynchburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
esponsible. These propositions are stated substantially in the language employed by Dr. Jones, and although twenty-five years have since elapsed, they have never been controverted in any essential particular, as far as we have heard or known. Our people owe Dr. Jones a debt of gratitude for this able and effective vindication of their course in this important matter, which they can never repay. As to the treatment of Mr. Davis whilst a prisoner: Captain Charles M. Blackford, of Lynchburg, Va., in an article read before the Virginia Bar Association at its meeting at Old Point, in 1900 (the facts of which article were taken entirely from the official records of the Federal Government), showed in a masterly manner that this treatment was the refinement of cruelty and cowardice on the part of the Federal authorities, and such as should bring the blush of shame to the cheek of every American citizen who was in sympathy with, or a participant in, those acts. Our people owe Captain
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
sh and to proclaim his deepest indignation at the tenor of that order. （2 Greeley, p. 100.) But we are sick of these recitals, and must conclude our report, already longer than we intended it should be. We, therefore, only allude to the orders found on the person of Dahlgren, to burn, sack and destroy the city of Richmond, to kill Jeff. Davis and his Cabinet on the spot, &c. The infamous deeds of General Edward A. Wild, both in Virginia and Georgia, and that of Colonel John McNeil in Missouri, some of which can be found set forth in the first volume of the Southern-Historical Papers, at pages 226 and 232, are shocking and disgraceful beyond description. Now, contrast with all these orders and all this conduct on the part of the Federal officers and soldiers, the address of General Early to the people of York, Pa., when our army invaded that State in the Gettysburg campaign; or, better still, the order of General Robert E. Lee to his army on that march. We will let that order
Milledgeville (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
n will naturally bring them into Charleston first, and if you have watched the history of that corps, you will have remarked that they generally do their work pretty well; the truth is, the whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak vengeance upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate, but feel that she deserves all that seems in store for her. I look upon Columbia as quite as bad as Charleston, and I doubt if we shall spare the public buildings there, as we did at Milledgeville. (See 2 Sherman's Memoirs, pages 223, 227-8.) We say proof of his ordering (or permitting, which is just as bad) the destruction of Columbia is overwhelming. (See report of Chancellor Carroll, chairman of a committee appointed to investigate the facts about this in General Bradley T. Johnson's Life of Johnson, from which several of these extracts are taken.) Our people owe General Johnson a debt of gratitude for this and his other contributions to Confederate history. And Sherma
New Jersey (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
one—a New Jersey regiment—was from the Middle States. All the rest were from the West. A letter (he says) from the only Thomas J. Myers ever in the army would never contain such a phrase, referring to the fact that Myers had said this stolen jewelry, &c., would be scattered all over the North and Middle States. Sherman's statement of the organization of his army on this march shows there were several regiments in it from New York and Pennsylvania, besides one from Maryland and one from New Jersey (all four Middle States). But we think this, like other reasons assigned by Colonel Stone, are without merit. But, as we have said, notwithstanding all these things which seemingly discredit the reasons assigned by Colonel Stone for the non-genuineness of this letter, we should not have used the letter in this report, had not the substantial statements in it been confirmed, as we shall now see. The Myers' letter was first published on October 29, 1883. On the 31st of July, 1865, Captai
Venice (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
lled with wheat and hay and farming implements; over 70 mills filled with flour and wheat; have driven in front of the army over 4,000 head of stock, and have killed and issued to the troops not less than 3,000 sheep. This destruction embraces the Luray Valley and Little Fort Valley, as well as the main valley. A large number of horses have been obtained, a proper estimate of which I cannot now make. Lieutenant John R. Meigs, my engineer officer, was murdered beyond Harrisonburg, near Dayton. For this atrocious act all the houses within an area of five miles were burned. It is not generally known, we believe, that this policy of devastation on the part of Sheridan was directly inspired and ordered by General Grant, who, in his Memoirs, writes with great satisfaction and levity of the outrages committed by Sherman, before referred to, and which he, of course, understood would be committed, from the terms of Sherman's telegram to him, and which he, at the least, acquiesced i
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
inhabitants and held them as hostages to the end that they should be murdered in cold blood should any of his soldiers be killed by unknown persons, whom he designated as bushwackers. On the very day of the signing of the cartel for the exchange of prisoners between the Federal and Confederate authorities (July 22, 1862), the Federal Secretary of War, by order of Mr. Lincoln, issued an order to the military commanders in Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas, directing them to seize and use any property belonging to the inhabitants of the Confederacy, which might be necessary or convenient for their several commands, and no provision was made for any compensation to the owners of private property thus seized and appropriated. This order was such a flagrant violation of the rules of civilized warfare—those adopted by the Federal government itself, as hereinbefore quoted—that the Confederate government sought to prevent it
Goldsboro (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
; but, alas! it will be scattered all over the North and Middle States. The damned niggers, as a general thing, preferred to stay at home, particularly after they found out that we wanted only the able-bodied men, and to tell the truth, the youngest and best-looking women. Sometimes we took them off by way of repaying influential secessionists. But a part of these we soon managed to lose, sometimes in crossing rivers, sometimes in other ways. I shall write you again from Wilmington, Goldsboro, or some other place in North Carolina. The order to march has arrived, and I must close hurriedly. Love to grandmother and Aunt Charlotte. Take care of yourself and the children. Don't show this letter out of the family. Your affectionate husband, Thomas J. Myers, Lieutenant, &c. P. S.—I will send this by the first flag of truce, to be mailed, unless I have an opportunity of sending it to Hilton Head. Tell Lottie I am saving a pearl bracelet and earrings for her. But Lambe
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