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Montgomery to meet an equal number to be sent from the one hundred and fifty thousand at Atlanta.
The line thus taken was to be permanently held by sixty thousand at Chattanooga, one hundred thousand at Atlanta, sixty thousand at Montgomery, and ten thousand at Mobile and Pensacola.
Such a division of the Confederacy, General Pope argued at length, would soon lead to its overthrow.
This plan involved the abandonment of the attempt to open the Mississippi.
It remained for General Grant, however, to achieve this most important river division of the Confederacy, and then turning eastward to divide it again by the move from Chattanooga.
And this division, Sherman, under the direction of Grant, accomplished with his force of one hundred thousand, which furnished both his garrisons and his moving column.
So the records not only show that General Grant planned the March to the Sea which was finally executed, but also, that general plan of operations for the closing year of the war was his conception.
Cincinnati: Wilstach, Baldwin & Co. 1875.
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