Chapter 22: campaign of the Carolinas. February and March, 1866.
On the 1st day of February, as before explained, the army designed for the active campaign from Savannah northward was composed of two wings, commanded respectively by Major-Generals Howard and Slocum, and was substantially the same that had marched from Atlanta to Savannah.
The same general orders were in force, and this campaign may properly be classed as a continuance of the former.
The right wing, less Corse's division, Fifteenth Corps, was grouped at or near Pocotaligo, South Carolina, with its wagons filled with food, ammunition, and forage, all ready to start, and only waiting for the left wing, which was detained by the flood in the Savannah River.
It was composed as follows:
The left wing, with Corse's division and Kilpatrick's cavalry, was at and near Sister's Ferry, forty miles above the city of
[269]
Savannah, engaged in crossing the river, then much swollen.
It was composed as follows:
The actual strength of the army, as given in the following official tabular statements, was at the time sixty thousand and seventy-nine men, and sixty-eight guns.
The trains were made up of about twenty-five hundred wagons, with six mules to each wagon, and about six hundred ambulances, with two horses each.
The contents of the wagons embraced an ample supply of ammunition for a great battle; forage for about seven days, and provisions for twenty days, mostly of bread, sugar, coffee, and salt, depending largely for fresh meat on beeves driven on the hoof and such cattle, hogs, and poultry, as we expected to gather along our line of march.
recapitulation--campaign of the Carolinas.
arm.
February 1.
March 1.
April 1.
April 10.
Infantry
53,923
51,598
74,105
80,968
Cavalry
4,438
4,401
4,781
5,537
Artillery
1,718
1,677
2,264
2,443
Aggregate
60,079
57,676
81,150
88,948
[270]
Effective Strength of the Army under GenderalW. T. Sherman, during the Campaign of the Carolinas, 1865.
An XML version of this text is available for download,
with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted
changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.
