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Report of movement of train of Twentieth army corps, left wing, Army Georgia, on the march from Atlanta to Savannah, commencing November Fifteenth, 1864, and ending December twenty-First, 1864.
| date. 1864. | Left Camp. | Arrived in Camp. | Miles. | Hndths. | Place of Arrival. | Weather. | Condition of Roads. | remarks. |
| Tuesday, Nov. 15 | 9 00 A. M. | 5 00 P. M. | 16 | Stone Mountain | Fine | Good, hilly | Left Atlanta; public buildings destroyed, part of city on fire, halted an hour for dinner at Decatur. | |
| Wednesday, Nov. 16 | 9 30 A. M. | 4 30 P. M. | 8 | McGuire's Farm | Fine | Good, hilly | Commencing to find subsistence for men and forage for animals. | |
| Thursday, Nov. 17 | 7 30 A. M. | 6 30 P. M. | 16 | Unknown | Fine | Good, hilly | Commenced killing worthless animals; bad place two miles back from camp, over which First division could not pass to-night. | |
| Friday, Nov. 18 | 7 30 A. M. | 7 30 P. M. | 15 | Jones's Farm | Fine in day, rained at night | Good, hilly | Passed through Social Circle and Rutledge, destroying railroad depots, tanks, wood, and track thoroughly. | |
| Saturday, Nov. 19 | 7 00 A. M. | 1 00 P. M. | 7 | Beyond Madison | Raining | A little muddy | One brigade, Second division sent to burn railroad bridge across Oconee, two brigades, Third division, detailed to tear up road. | |
| Sunday, Nov. 20 | 8 00 A. M. | 4 30 P. M. | 12 | Toward Eatonton | Cloudy, rained at 5 o'clock | Muddy | Men and animals now faring luxuriously. | |
| Monday, Nov. 21 | 7 00 A. M. | 12 M. | 13 | 5 miles beyond Eatonton | Very hard rain | Very muddy and worn | Frost at night. Captured Commander of Post, Colonel White, and Captain and Assistant Quartermaster and Captain, Commissary of Subsistence. | |
| Tuesday, Nov. 22 | 7 30 A. M. | 5 00 P. M. | 15 | Milledgeville | Clear and very cold | Good | Crossed Little River on pontoons; arrived at Milledgeville at twelve o'clock, and camped east side of Oconee River in woods. | |
| Wednesday, Nov. 23 | In camp all day | Clear and very cold | Shoeing up and repairing. Burnt penitentiary, arsenal, destroyed arms, munitions of war, and railroad property. | |||||
| Thursday, Nov. 24 | 8 00 A. M. | 4 00 P. M. | 13 | In the woods | Fine and warmer | Good level | Built bridge over Buffalo Creek. | |
| Friday, Nov. 25 | 8 00 A. M. | 4 30 P. M. | 8 | Buffalo Creek | Warm, fine weather | Good country | Skirmish with the enemy in evening; passed Hebron. General Sherman joined us. | |
| Saturday, Nov. 26 | 7 00 A. M. | 10 A. M. by odom. | 8 | Sandersville | Warm, fine weather | Good country | Skirmish with enemy on entering town; we laid by here all afternoon; Fourteenth corps passing through. | |
| Sunday, Nov. 27 | 9 00 A. M. | 6 30 P. M. | 15 | 27 | Davisboro | Warm, fine weather | Good country | Burnt court-house and jail at Sandersville before we marched, and cut down the liberty-pole. |
| Monday, Nov. 28 | 7 30 A. M. | 12 M. | 9 | 23 | Ogeechee River | Warm, fine weather | Good country swamp bad | First and Second divisions sent down railroad to destroy it; found bridge burnt by rebels; laid by till it was built. |
| Tuesday, Nov. 29 | 12 M. | 5 00 P. M. | 6 | 13 | Beyond Louisville | Warm, fine | Good country | Crossed on pontoons; Fourteenth corps train and cavalry division train passing ahead; passed through Louisville. |
| Wednesday, Nov. 30 | In camp all day | Warm | First and Second divisions rejoin us. Repairing. | |||||
| Thursday, Dec. 1 | 9 00 A. M. | 5 15 P. M. | 13 | 17 | Near Birdville | Warm | Swampy | Michigan Engineers build bridges across the creek; forty-six men and one lieutenant One Hundred and Seventh New-York gobbled while out foraging. |
| Friday, Dec. 2 | 7 30 A. M. | 4 15 P. M. | 10 | 89 | Buckhead Church | Cloudy | Good | Passed a magnificent plantation belonging to Doctor Jones, called Birdville. |
| Saturday, Dec. 3 | 8 00 A. M. | 5 15 P. M. | 15 | 52 | Beyond Millen | Cloudy | Good | Passed the Millen prison on our left. |
| Sunday, Dec. 4 | 7 00 A. M. | 5 00 P. M. | 14 | 73 | Pine Woods | Fine | Swampy | Some of our men destroyed a mill on our left half a mile, burning the sluicegate, letting the water flood the road, delaying corps supply train and First division twelve hours. |
| Monday, Dec. 5 | 4 00 P. M. | 6 00 P. M. | 2 | 81 | Near Little Ogeechee | Fine | Swampy | Train of cavalry division, two hundred and eleven wagons, ordered to move with corps train. |
| Tuesday, Dec. 6 | 6 00 A. M. | 4 30 P. M. | 16 | 26 | Cowper Creek | Fine, rained during night | Swampy | Swamps very bad; road barricaded by felled trees. |
| Wednesday, Dec. 7 | 8 30 A. M. | 4 00 P. M. | 9 | 68 | Near Springfield | Rained hard till noon | Swampy | Crossed Turkey Creek; Provost-Marshal ordered to take all captured horses to mount the cavalry. |
| Thursday, Dec. 8 | 9 00 A. M. | 12 M. | 93 | Springfield | Fine | Very bad | Crossed Jack's Creek; troops, except Third division, ahead six miles; stopped at Springfield for dinner. | |
| Thursday, Dec. 8 | 3 00 P. M. | 7 00 P. M. | 5 | 55 | Cross Roads, Pine Woods | Fine | Good | Except the swamps, Third division trains did not get into camp till nine o'clock next morning. |
| Friday, Dec. 9 | 9 30 A. M. | 5 45 P. M. | 14 | 15 | Near Monteith | Cloudy | Good | Found forts in front garrisoned by rebels; roads through swamp barricaded; charged on enemy's works through swamps and rice-fields, carrying them, capturing some prisoners. |
| Saturday, Dec. 10 | 10 00 A. M. | 4 30 P. M. | 10 | 53 | Towards Savannah | Cloudy | Good pike | Captured General Harrison, Commander of the rebels, in the fight yesterday. |
| Sunday, Dec. 11 to | Before Savannah | Fine | Eleventh, first day's siege; twelfth, captured rebel steamer Resolute; thirteenth, manned steamer and commenced repairs. | |||||
| Tuesday, Dec. 20 | Fine | Fort McAllister captured; fifteenth, sent one hundred and fifty wagons to Kingsbridge for supplies; seventeenth, received mail. | ||||||
| Wednesday, Dec. 21 | 12 30 P. M. | 2 30 P. M. | 5 | 50 | Savannah | Fine | Good turnpike | Twentieth, during day and night rebels evacuating Savannah. |
| 281 | 35 | twenty-five marching days, averaging 11 25-100 miles per day. |
