“I have never heard”: Nichols, Great March, 41.
“Nero made music”: Hunter, Eighty-Second Indiana, 136.
“only danger yet”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 59.
“it looked like”: Berry Diary, AHC.
CHAPTER 7. “LURID FLAMES LIT UP THE HEAVENS”
“The air was resonant”: Kerr, “From Atlanta to Raleigh,” 208.
“The roaring”: Althouse and Hughes, Civil War Letters, 120.
“Who set it afire?”: National Tribune, 6/28/1900.
“A last look”: Ege, Papers, WHS.
“Country sandy”: Porter, Diary, OHS.
“men were cheering”: Kerr, “From Atlanta to Raleigh,” 208.
“The Corps”: Floyd, History of the Seventy-fifth, 344.
“All believed”: Kerr, “From Atlanta to Raleigh,” 208.
“What doubts”: Ladd, “From Atlanta to the Sea,” 6.
“General rode quietly”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 60.
“Behind us”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:178–79.
“Felt a little sore”: National Tribune, 2/26/1925.
“tired and sleepy”: Buckingham, Papers, AAS.
“We know not”: Wheeler, Letters and Journal, ALL.
“picked up”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“The marching to-day”: OR 44:269.
“We marched”: National Tribune, 2/26/1925.
“train of freight cars”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.
“The modus operandi”: National Tribune, 2/26/1925.
“destroyed two miles”: OR 44:216.
“only partially”: Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel, 12/24/1864.
“Piled all surplus”: Sligh, History of the Services, 26.
“perfect ruin”: Howland, Papers, MHS.
“Mr. Soldier”: Campbell, Civil War Experiences, MCA.
“Enemy advancing”: OR 44:859.
“The temptation”: Fultz, “History of Company D,” 73.
“enjoyed a good rest”: Duke, Fifty-third, 161.
“The shells whistled”: Eisenhower, Diary, MHI.
“route was blocked”: OR 44:374.
“We were so completely”: Quoted in Miles, To the Sea, 142.
“a six-gun battery”: National Tribune, 3/23/1922.
“nonsensical”: Quoted in Cincinnati Daily Commercial, 11/23/1864.
“that a [Confederate] force”: Ibid.
“with unsparing vehemence”: Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel, 11/22/1864.
“one of the boldest”: Cincinnati Daily Commercial, 11/16/1864.
“An officer of Sherman’s staff”: Chicago Tribune, 11/16/1864.
“no shelter was provided”: Davidson, Fourteen Months, 332–3.
“Old worn-out”: Rosenow, Pen Pictures, 101.
“Foragers were sent out”: Otto, Civil War Memoirs, WHS.
“No one knew”: Miller, Diary, IHS.
“tenderly laid”: Floyd, History of the Seventy-fifth, 346.
“a seedy Southern village”: Rosenow, Pen Pictures, 101.
“a small place”: Wilcox, Diary, MHI.
“old, weather-beaten”: Angle, Three Years, 304.
“dilapidated”: Clark, Diaries, LHS.
“a desolate looking town”: Widney, Diary and Letters, KNP.
“Saw good looking girl”: Edmonds, Papers, MHI.
“the old man”: Angle, Three Years, 307.
“Marched slow”: Omvig, Diaries, 114.
“Roads bad”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“a good bridge”: New York Herald, 12/28/1864.
“east of the Yellow River”: OR 44:270.
“Forage is very plentiful”: Hoerner, Chattanooga, Savannah and Alexandria, 41.
“got plenty”: Harper, Diary, MHI.
“the crowing”: Paterson Daily Register, 1/3/1865.
“I find [it] very hard”: Storrs, Twentieth Connecticut, 150.
“I ate some hard tack”: Lathrop, John Smethurst, 59.
“some of the 3rd”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“burnt a cotton mill”: Ostrum Diary, MHI.
“isolated houses”: McBride, Thirty-third Indiana, 151.
“the lurid flames”: Davis-Quillin, Papers, AHC.
“Absorbed in thought”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 60.
“either Savannah”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:179.
“sitting on the porch”/“sitting in the passageway”: Calkins, One Hundred and Fourth Regiment, 257.
“no fear”/“intelligent fellow”/“Line of fires”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 60–61.
“Three days more”: Ibid., 63.
“to assist”: OR 44:475–76.
“Begin to-day”: Force, Papers, UWA.
“it very hard”: Platter, “Civil War Diary,” UGA.
“The boys went out”: Saunier, History, 352.
“I was detailed this day”: Lyftogt, Left for Dixie, 61.
“foragers got lots”: Unknown Diarist, SHI.
“Some skirmishing”: Scheel, Rain, Mud & Swamps, 456.
“a brigade of rebel cavalry”: OR 44:96.
“We entered the town”: Duke, Fifty-third Regiment, 161.
“a lot of cotton”: Judkins, Diary, ISL.
“large Confederate mail”: Trimble, Ninety-third Regiment, 145.
“We buried him”: Christie, Family Papers, MHS.
“It is perfectly”/“take such steps”: OR 44:472.
“carried through”: Carter, Story, 304.
“Forage of all kinds”: Tomlinson, “Dear Friends,” 172.
“most unmilitary”: OR 44:485.
“Augusta or Macon”: OR 44:859.
“You will cut”: OR 45/1:1213.
“There was nothing”: Taylor, Destruction and Reconstruction, 246.
“safety of prisoners”/“no serious fears”: Quoted in Iobst, Civil War Macon, 339–40.
“If Sherman advances”: OR 44:860.
CHAPTER 8. “FORAGE OF ALL KINDS ABOUNDS”
Buttrills of Sylvan Grove: Buttrill, “Experience in the War,” GSA.
“a byroad”: Cryder and Stanley, “War for the Union,” 457.
“Orders to be ready”: McMillan, Papers, WHS.
“to help”: Force, Papers, UWA.
“Advance ordered to kill”: Jamison, Recollections, 280.
“The wagon trains”: Hubert, Fiftieth Regiment, 322.
“We are flankers”: Dunbar, Diary, BHS.
“fine lot of Hogs”: Black, “Marching with Sherman,” 454.
“The poor people”: Pepper, Personal Recollections, 240.
“Now I reckon”: Berry, Letter, EU.
“Country beautiful”: Berkenes, Private William Boddy, 151.
“Have had”: Ward, Diary, IHS.
“had to stop”: Brockman, “John Van Duser Diary,” 221–22.
“standing on the R.R.”: Angle, Three Years, 307.
“I attached much”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:180.
“fine dwelling”: Fahnestock, Diary, KNP.
“The picture”: Widney, Diary and Letters, KNP.
“full of women”: Edmonds, Papers, MHI.
“flocked in large numbers”: New York Herald, 12/22/64.
“Pretty foot and ankle”: Edmonds, Papers, MHI.
“she reckoned”: Calkins, One Hundred and Fourth Regiment, 257.
“We left them”: Angle, Three Years, 308–9.
“sandy & timber stands”: Reed, “Civil War Diaries,” MHS.
“Forage of all kinds”: Clark, Diaries, LHS.
“All kind of forage”: Bruce, “Daniel E. Bruce,” 195.
“Our course”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.
“My duties were defined”: Baldwin, Papers, HL.
“From the calves”: Grunert, History, 124.
“carrying an armful”: Reed, “Civil War Diaries,” MHS.
“huge on catching fowls”: Failing-Knight, Papers, MHS.
“[Cotton] Gin house”: Maguire, Pap
ers, AHC.
“The trains moved”: Padgett, “With Sherman through Georgia,” 57.
“Short marches”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.
“Standing still”: Morgan, Diary, MHI.
“waited till heartily tired”: Hinkley, Papers, WHS.
“Please give me”: Drake, Army of Tennessee, 355.
“shortest road”: OR 44:863.
“we shall have lively times”: Cobb, Papers, UGA.
“the most dangerous”: OR 44:861–62.
“Things are very bad”: OR 44:862.
“Macon is to be defended”: Quoted in Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel, 11/22/1864.
“with such things”: Chapman, Civil War Diary, 100.
“When General Sherman left”: Quoted in Stewart, Reward of Patriotism, 198.
“the passage”: Chandler, Confederate Records, 791.
“do all I can”/“we have not force”: Quoted in Iobst, Civil War Macon, 340–41.
“The prisoners”: OR 44:862.
“found plenty”: Downing’s Civil War, 229.
“A plenty”: House, “Civil War Diary,” MHS.
“Our men are clear discouraged”/“The men detailed”: Reminiscences of the Civil War, 149.
“Along our route”: Platter, “Civil War Diary,” UGA.
“We…obtained a number”: Cryder and Stanley, “War for the Union,” 457.
“Fire is doing its work”: Pittenger, Diary, OHS.
“[Rebel] cutthroats”: Unknown Diarist, SHI.
“a troop of Confederate”: Fifty-fifth Regiment, 392-93.
“A couple of orderlies”: Daniels, Diary, HL.
“They retreated”: McMichael, “Burning of the Courthouse,” UDC.
“think we are making”: OR 44:485.
“Great excite[ment]”: Ray, Diary, GSA.
“If this war”: Buttrill story in Buttrill, “Experience in the War,” GSA.
“no one to fall behind”: OR 44:481–82.
“It has been”: Johnson, “‘Make a Preacher Swear,’” 33.
“Moving very slow”: Michael, Diary, IHS.
“there was but little”: OR 44:339.
“we had slow”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“Some wagon”: Wagoner, “From Wauhatchie,” 118.
“The niggers flock”: McLean, Family Papers, NYL.
“Massa, I’se gwine”: Otto, “Civil War Memoirs,” WHS.
“got into conversation”: Storrs, Twentieth Connecticut, 150.
“shot, burned and drowned”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 64.
“Don’t want white man”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 66–67.
“I have seen no enemy”: OR 44:482.
“We pry some of the rails”: Parker, Papers, HL.
“The ties were all burned”: Hapeman, Diary, ALL.
“we arrived at the”: Rosenow, Pen Pictures, 102.
“I shut my eyes”: Widney, Diary and Letters, KNP.
“dashed into Social Circle”: New York Herald, 12/28/1864.
“attempted to sham”: Rosenow, Pen Pictures, 102.
“He is dressed”: Litton, Union Soldier Returns South, 26.
“tried to get away”: Parker, Papers, HL.
“He still tells”: Litton, Union Soldier Returns South, 26.
“Brigade commanders”/“use of cartridges”: OR 44:483–84.
CHAPTER 9. “ARISE FOR THE DEFENSE OF YOUR NATIVE SOIL!”
“an old fe[r]ry”: Moses, “Civil War Diary.”
“about 30 men”: Glossbrenner, Diary, MHI.
“As the enemy”: Brown, Fourth Regiment, 340.
“We lived”: Platter, “Civil War Diary,” UGA.
“abundance of sweet”: Force, Papers, UWA.
“About a hundred”: Cryder and Stanley, “War for the Union,” 457.
“he took a frantic spill”: Macy, Papers, SHI.
“all put their”: Stauffer, Civil War Diary, n.p.
“There was a grist mill”: Keyes, Diary, MHI.
“2 splendid buildings”: Christie, Family Papers, MHS.
“lots of women”: Girdner, Letters, EU.
“The most majestic”: Anderson, Civil War Diary, 177.
“convinced that the impression”: OR 44:363.
“bridges on the road”: Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel, 11/19/1864.
“On the 18th”: Drake, Army of Tennessee, 356.
“reached Forsythe”: Smith, “Georgia Militia,” 667.
“long before chicks”: Omvig, Diaries, 115.
“Some of the 85th boys”: Herron, Reminiscences, 22.
“I thought this”: Garrett, “Uninvited Guests,” UDC.
“Citizens don’t like the ‘Yanks’”: Morrow, Diary, MHI.
“good looking girls”: McLean, Family Papers, NYL.
“no evidence”: Bauer, Soldiering, 183.
“In less than ten minutes”: Angle, Three Years, 309.
“cloudy and threatening rain”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 67–68.
“fordable”: Ibid., 68.
“not anxious to witness”: Brockman, “John Van Duser Diary,” 222.
“there is a mighty”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 68.
This was all intended”: Brockman, “John Van Duser Diary,” 223.
“To the People of Georgia”: Beauregard/Hill proclamations in OR 44:867.
“In addition”: OR 44:865.
“that the military authorities”: Quoted in Iobst, Civil War Macon, 342.
“in the fortifications”: OR 44:868.
“Employ your cavalry”: OR 44:867.
“should not allow”: OR 44:868.
“Enemy pressing”: OR 44:868.
“rendered valueless”: Acts of the General Assembly, 16–24.
“Some members”/“Everything in the Executive”: McAdoo, Diary, LOC.
“A heavy force”: OR 44:865.
“By paying”: Barber, Army Memoirs, 179.
“Here many of our boys”: Saunier, History, 352.
“The Confederate officials”: Sherlock, Memorabilia, 145.
“entered into interesting”: Wright, Sixth Iowa, 360.
“But the tears”: Ibid., 360–61.
“Drove in the enemy’s pickets”: McClintock, Papers, HL.
“in this way”: Christie, Family Papers, MHS.
“This looked hard”: Baker, Soldier’s Experience, 40.
“At the eastern end”: Harwell and Racine, Fiery Trail, 55.
“The crossing of the Ocmulgee”: Howard, “Sherman’s Advance from Atlanta,” 664.
“a considerable amount”: Hoerner, Chattanooga, Savannah and Alexandria, 41.
“along the R.R.”: Parmater, Diary, OHS.
“Men feel a little jaded”: Ames, Diary, MHI.
“Forage abundant”: Brant, History of the Eighty-fifth, 76.
“Sent out two”: OR 44:245.
“proceed along”: OR 44:233.
“whiskey uppermost”: Kendall, Diary and Letters, CHS.
“After a run”: Scott, “‘With Tears in Their Eyes,’” 28.
“were angry”: Parker, Papers, HL.
“On the 18th”: Floyd, History of the Seventy-fifth, 348.
“a crippled Confederate”: McNeil, Personal Recollections, 59.
“Every window and door”: New York Herald, 12/22/1864.
“attempted to”: Jones, When Sherman Came, 6–7.
“Negroes all want”: Emmons, Diaries, UIA.
“saw several darkey women”: Kellogg, Illinois Soldier, 28.
“Some of the boys”: Otto, Civil War Memoirs, WHS.
“Your soldiers”: Jones, When Sherman Came, 6–7.
“a deep, sluggish stream”: Hight and Stormont, Fifty-eighth Regiment, 416–18.
“village of negro huts”: New York Herald, 12/22/1864.
“I was bound to come”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 70.
“supposed that slavery”/“with a ham on his musket”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:180–81.
“a number of soldiers”: New York Herald, 12/22/1864.
“I don’t mean to hurt her”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 72–73.
“Oh, how I trust”: Lunt, Woman’s Wartime Journal, 17–20.
CHAPTER 10. “WHITES LOOK SOUR & SAD”
“We got up”: Roe, Papers, KNX.
“roads today”: Clark, Downing’s Civil War, 230.
“On both sides”: Hedley, Marching through Georgia, 310.
“blankets are so wet”: Brown, Fourth Regiment, 340.
“source of anxiety”: Howard, “Sherman’s Advance,” 664.
“as soon as over”: Howard, Autobiography, 2:71.
“Great fires were kept”: 92nd Illinois Volunteers, 175.
“The cavalry cross two by two”: Ibid., 176.
“The weather is wet”: Hoerner, Chattanooga, Savannah and Alexandria, 41.
“Colored people”: Ames, Diary, MHI.
“A wag in Company A”: Boyle, Soldiers True, 258.
“our men ransacked”: Wheeler, Letters and Journal, ALL.
“It is the finest”: Trego, Diary, CHI.
“the town looked”: New York Herald, 12/28/864.
“The men have obtained”: Fleharty, Our Regiment, 111.
“Cotton stored”: Osborn, Trials and Triumphs, 177.
“The Calaboos[e]”: Kittinger, Diary, MHI.
“But it was of no use”: Chapman, Civil War Diary, 100.
“stripped of all”: Jones, When Sherman Came, 15.
“fine style”: Short, Diary, WHS.
“with handsomely aligned”: Byrne, Uncommon Soldiers, 258.
“We spent the whole forenoon”: Herron, Reminiscences, 23.
“the roads were found”: New York Herald, 12/22/1864.
“ahead in a heavy rain”: McAdams, Every-day Soldier Life, 117.
“You awake in the morning”: Parker, Papers, HL.
“the General explained”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 74.
“The enemy”: Hardee messages in OR 44:870.
“divide [his force]”: Ibid.
“After a careful survey”: Quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer, 12/5/1864.
“country cannot support”: Ibid., 11/23/1864.
“would have turned”: Barber, Army Memoirs, 179–80.
“Burned many cotton mills”: Parmater, Diary, OHS.
“the water-tank”: OR 44:270.
“several thousand”: Hoerner, Chattanooga, Savannah and Alexandria, 42.
“a first rate time”: Harper, Diary, MHI.
“tearing up”: Paterson Daily Register, 1/3/1865.
“a considerable distance”: OR 44:283.
“Our Division started”: Quoted in Schmidt, Civil War History, 1036.
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