“Signals, shots and fires”: National Tribune, 1/30/1902.
“The officers and sailors”: Ibid.
“I was extremely weary”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:202.
“He may have been a lion”: Hight and Stormont, Fifty-eighth Regiment, 442.
“the most American looking”: Gray and Ropes, War Letters, 427.
“strongly intrenched”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:202.
“ample supplies”: OR 44:708.
“perfectly sure of capturing”: OR 44:713.
“says the city is his sure game”: Gray and Ropes, War Letters, 427.
“indispensable”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:202.
“Anchored immediately”: ORN, 16:361.
“I was not personally acquainted”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:203.
“that navy officers”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 188.
“Not liking to rejoice”: OR 44:611–12.
“News came about 10 o’clock”: Hickman, Diary and Letters, UMB.
“have been cheering”: Angle, Three Years, 363.
“Now we are knocking”: Jones, “For My Country,” 173.
“They would make a mark”: National Tribune, 3/7/1907.
“to be employed”: Beauregard clipping, in Sherman, Papers, LOC.
“We will soon have rations”: Cruikshank, “Civil War Letters.”
“must soon end our season”: Champlin, Diary, WRS.
“Our food line”: Buerstatte, “Civil War Diary.”
“Almost every tree”: Parker, Papers, HL.
“We captured a yawl”: Kittinger, Diary, MHI.
“If Hood’s Battalion”: Quoted in Rogers and Saunders, “Scourge of Sherman’s Men,” 358.
Mary Jones Jones: Incident recounted in Jones and Mallard, Yankees A’Coming, 33–37.
“No change from yesterday”: Morrow, Diary, MHI.
“The frogs are peeping”: Boies, Record, 104.
“This morning”: Hancock, Diary.
“We were stationed”: Allspaugh, Diaries, UIA.
“a heavy detail”: National Tribune, 6/13/1901.
“lost three men”: Bush, “Civil War Letters and Diary,” ISL.
“Rations getting scarce”: Armstrong, Diary, IHS.
“Living on rice”: Burt, Diary.
“We are now living”: Bircher, Drummer-Boy’s Diary, 152.
“The story they tell”: Lancaster Daily Evening Express, 1/3/1865.
“There is much diversity”: Reeve, Papers, WHS.
“The boys waded”: Calkins, One Hundred and Fourth Regiment, 270.
“boats enough”: Carmen, “General Hardee’s Escape,” 194.
“Damn it!”: Ibid.
“seal up that side”: OR 44:719–20.
“The citizens of Savannah”: Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel, 12/15/1864.
“I desire being informed”/“I shall be compelled”: OR 44:959–60.
“I feel uneasy”: OR 44:962.
“come here”: Quoted in Lawrence, Present for Mr. Lincoln, 192.
“services [were] not being longer needed”: Quoted in Hallock, Braxton Bragg, 227.
“the part of chronicler”: Miers, Rebel War Clerk’s Diary, 474.
“a truly formidable work”/“still there cooking”: ORN, 16:361.
“How on earth”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 189.
“very busy pulling”: ORN, 16:362.
“about noon”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:203.
“group of twenty-five”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 193.
“For the present”: OR 44:720–21.
“thinking of various things”: Woodhull, “Glimpse of Sherman,” 457–58.
“the most important operation”: OR 44:636.
“The contents”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:206.
“He now stood”: Woodhull, “Glimpse of Sherman,” 458.
CHAPTER 21. “I BEG TO PRESENT YOU AS A CHRISTMAS GIFT THE CITY OF SAVANNAH”
“initiated measures”: Sherman-Grant message in OR 44:726–28; Sherman, Memoirs, 2:207.
“I had no idea”: Grant-Sherman message in Grant, Personal Memoirs, 2:401; OR 44:728–29.
“Attack Hood at once”: Quoted in Sword, Embrace an Angry Wind, 291.
“They all scampered”: Ibid., 387.
“the worst broke”: Ibid., 406.
“was slow, deliberate”: Quoted in Hirshson, White Tecumseh, 357.
“Our company”: Lovrien, Diary, KNP.
“hereby placed in charge”: OR 44:732.
“a total force”: Hickenlooper, Collection, CIN.
“Johnnies have thrown”: Parmater, Diary, OHS.
“make us lay”: Brown, Papers, DU.
“Now thinks I”: Fisher, Letters, NYL.
“Rations are getting shorter”: Cruikshank, “Civil War Letters.” 465 “I manage to get”: Armstrong, Diary, IHS.
“Received a large mail”: Johnson, “March to the Sea,” 333.
“This last trip”: Putney, Papers, WHS.
“three hundred dollars’”/“Some of us”: Calkins, One Hundred and Fourth Regiment, 272–73.
“the highest honor”: in Simpson and Berlin, Sherman’s Civil War, 767–68.
“I’ve brought you”: Quoted in Davis, Sherman’s March, 107–8.
“thankful for his”: Simpson and Berlin, Sherman’s Civil War, 777.
“A rice field”: Morgan, Diary, MHI.
“any quantity of rice”: Historical Sketch of Co. D, 37.
“knew enough”: Toombs, Reminiscences, 182.
“annoying, stopping”: Quint, Record, 253.
“They made excellent practice”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.
“Even while lying”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“I was sent with my Company”: Hinkley, Narrative of Service, 161.
“lads of the company”: Bryant, History, 295.
“We blazed away”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.
“Gen. Sherman does not seem”: Duncan, Papers, NJH.
“only about one-third”: Chisolm, “Failure to Capture Hardee,” 680.
“attack is of no importance”: OR 44:963.
“and all persons”: Quoted in New York Herald, 12/22/1864.
“My time”: OR 44:150.
“Broke camp”: Jamison, Recollections, 289.
“Saw Men”: Pratt, Diary, WHS.
“We got some sweet”: McConnell, John D. Martin’s Journal, 26.
“Leaving camp”: Fifty-fifth Regiment, 399–400.
“man in Company B”: Saunier, History, 373.
“a low level”: Champlin, Diary, WRS.
“I shot a hog”: Miller, Diary, IHS.
“there was plenty”: Parker, Papers, HL.
“Card-playing”: Charlton, “From Atlanta to the Sea,” MHI.
“the hearts of the men”: Aten, History, 254.
“how glad we were”: Quoted in Schmidt, Civil War History, 1067.
“The 29th presents”: Parmater, Diary, OHS.
“Rebels shell”: McMillan, Papers, WHS.
“We lie in a swampy”: Henney, Letters, MHI.
“Our pickets are so close”: Cutter, Letters, MHS.
“One of ours”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.
“I rode from my headquarters”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:210.
Sherman surrender demand: OR 44:737.
“My rank”: Carmen, “General Hardee’s Escape,” 210.
“was suddenly surrounded”: Jones, Siege of Savannah, 138.
“the fullest possible defense”: OR 44:963.
“make the dispositions”: OR 44:964.
“after full consultation”: Roman, Military Operations, 2:316.
“I have to acknowledge”: Hardee surrender response in OR 44:736–37.
“both”: Harwell and Racine, Fiery Trail, 72.
“on the successful”: OR 44:741.
“more delay”: OR 44:741–43.
“I…resolved”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:210.
“Of course I must fight”: Quoted i
n Marszalek, Sherman, 309.
“It is all important”: OR 44:750.
“the enemy held the river”: OR 44:11.
“to make a mistake”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:216.
“commenced taring up”: Sebring, Diary, ISL.
“went to work”: Saunier, History, 374.
“a small aristocratic”: Jamison, Recollections, 289.
“There we got some”: McConnell, John D. Martin’s Journal, 26.
“found plenty of sweet”: Reed, “Civil War Diaries,” MHS.
“glad after all to know”: Essington, Diary, ISL.
“whether the joke”: Patrick and Willey, “‘We Have Surely,’” 234.
“bombs, shells, and balls”: National Tribune, 6/17/1926.
“It looks very romantic”: Hight and Stormont, Fifty-eighth Regiment, 436–37.
“Our Division was drawn up”: Quoted in Schmidt, Civil War History, 1068.
“informed me”: Carmen, “General Hardee’s Escape,” 198.
“Active, urgent preparations”: Roman, Military Operations, 2:317.
“prosecuted with…vigor”: Chisolm, “Failure to Capture Hardee,” 680.
“If Hoke and Johnson”: OR 44:966.
“Of our weakness”: Graves, Letters, UDC.
“Our works are very”: Swiggart, Shades of Gray, 77.
“to push the preparations”: OR 44:756, 761.
“great disappointment”: ORN, 16:362.
“Still taring up”: Sebring, Diary, ISL.
“loaded the [wagon]”: Judkins, Diary, ISL.
“Moved out”: Pratt, Diary, WHS.
“our teams all loaded”: Reed, “Civil War Diaries,” MHS.
“would sing hymns”: Cryder and Stanley, “War for the Union,” 465.
“It was a strange”: Angle, Three Years, 367–68.
“and the men”: Cryder and Stanley, “War for the Union,” 465.
“with view to the adoption”: OR 44:279.
“make thorough”: OR 44:761.
“the opposite shore”: Parrott, Letters, SHI.
“some heavy cannonading”: Clark, Downing’s Civil War, 239.
“We lay within 100 yds”: Noble, Papers, UMB.
“upon one of the thread-like”: Force, Papers, UWA.
“He was a fine officer”: Rood, Story of the Service, 376.
“without opposition”: Bryant, History, 297.
“If they had had their guns”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.
“The rebs made but little”: Hinkley, Papers, WHS.
“exceeded…[my] instructions”/“the contest became severe”: Carmen, “General Hardee’s Escape,” 202.
“It was known”: Toombs, Reminiscences, 185.
“We came right across”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.
“had some severe work”: Kendall, Diary and Letters, CHS.
“line nearly two”: OR 44:762.
“I had not reached”: Carmen, “General Hardee’s Escape,” 203.
“Gentlemen, this is not”: Quoted in Lawrence, Present for Mr. Lincoln, 198–99.
“a general rush”: Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, 1/5/1906.
“represented the matter”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:216–17.
“off the only”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 198.
“lines of army wagons”: Summerell, “General Hardee Evacuates Savannah,” 5.
“Very few of the citizens”: Quoted in New York Herald, 1/7/1865.
“became quite incensed”: Philadelphia Weekly Times, 11/21/1885.
“Our batteries were awake”: Roe, Papers, KNX.
“have kept up”: Unknown Diarist, SHI.
“On account of getting so many”: Parmater, Diary, OHS.
“Heavy cannonading”: Dunbar, Diary, BHS.
“This intimation”: Kurtz, “War Diary,” 83–84.
“opened on our positions”: Carmen, Papers, NJH.
“From one portion of our line”: Hinkley, Papers, WHS.
“could see wagons”: Carmen, “General Hardee’s Escape,” 205.
“crowd of women”: Philadelphia Weekly Times, 11/21/1885.
“busy burning”: Jones, When Sherman Came, 86.
“Sherman had burned Atlanta”: Summerell, “General Hardee Evacuates Savannah,” 5.
“Sick of war”: Anderson, Civil War Diary, 184.
“There has been a rumor”: Bradley, Star Corps, 213–14.
“that the enemy had completed”: OR 44:279.
“lost considerable time”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 198.
“light batteries will…be withdrawn”: OR 44:967.
“It is feared”: McAdams, Every-day Soldier Life, 126–27.
“I feel a cold shiver”: Otto, Civil War Memoirs, WHS.
“When we came to think”: Rood, Story of the Service, 378.
“I have no words”: Graves, Letters, UDC.
“Men, women and children”: Savannah Morning News, 12/25/1932.
“The shelling to-night”: Wagoner, “From Wauhatchie,” 125.
“opened their batteries”: National Tribune, 2/11/1915.
“a severe artillery fire”: Quoted in Schmidt, Civil War History, 1069.
“By reason of the lack”: Jones, Siege of Savannah, 162.
“Our camp fires”: Fort, “History,” MHI.
“Since my father”: Mendel, “Sketch,” UDC.
“lined by the great live oak”: Clark, Histories, 4:322.
“I can’t describe”: Quoted in Lawrence, Present for Mr. Lincoln, 201.
“The scene of our army”: Fort, “History,” MHI.
“As we passed through”: Atlanta Journal, 8/16/1902.
“night was exceedingly dark”: Kurtz, “War Diary,” 84.
“the curses and yells”: Carmen, Papers, NJH.
“to parts unknown”: Quoted in Lawrence, Present for Mr. Lincoln, 199–200.
“fell into the long line”: Graves, Letters, UDC.
“constant tread”: Elliott, Letters, SHC.
“after getting something to eat”: National Tribune, 7/18/1883.
“answered their calls”: National Tribune, 7/8/1915.
“crawled up to their works”: National Tribune, 7/21/1892.
“forward rapidly”: OR 44:279.
“Soon we met”: National Tribune, 7/21/1892.
“Just outside”: OR 44:280.
“Sir: The city of Savannah”: OR 44:772.
“some were still linked”: Summerell, “General Hardee Evacuates Savannah,” 7.
“We rushed”: National Tribune, 7/21/1892.
“We entered the city”: Engle, Letters.
“he took formal possession”: OR 44:319.
“every flag”: Rey, Letters, NYH.
“We passed through”: Parmater Diary, OHS.
“Oh, Miss!”/“three very orderly”: King, “Fanny Cohen’s Journal,” 410.
“By the fortunes of war”: Quoted in Lawrence, Present for Mr. Lincoln, 208.
“the old flag”: National Tribune, 10/25/1900.
“took position”: OR 44:355.
“tried to behave ourselves”: Levings, Papers, WHS.
“the white women”: McKee, Diary, SHI.
“The people of Savannah seemed”: Lancaster Daily Evening Express, 1/3/1865.
“the channel was so narrow”: ORN, 16:362.
“My eventful career”: Blair, Politician Goes to War, 219.
“protect all peaceable persons”: OR 44:782.
“I saw some”: Merrill, Seventieth Indiana, 232.
“Dear General”: OR 44:771.
“A great danger”: Kaminsky, War to Petrify, 275.
“the last man”: Carmen, Papers, NJH.
“It lit the heavens”: Quoted in Smith, Civil War Savannah, 196.
“it made a fearful”: Platter, “Civil War Diary,” UGA.
“grocery cellars”: Wheeler, Letters and Journal, ALL.
“The boys got plenty”: Stauffer, “Civil War Diary,” n.p.
“
The rebels left everything”: Chicago Evening Journal, 1/10/1865.
“Took dinner”: McLean, Family Papers, NYL.
“heartily sick of the war”: Padgett, “With Sherman through Georgia,” 62.
“There are eight”: Frances Howard incident in Jones, When Sherman Came, 87.
“The navy-yard”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:217.
“As I feared”: Lamar, Papers, GSA.
“You can form no”: Anderson, Letter, EU.
“When the morning light”: Quoted in Drago, “How Sherman’s March,” 364.
“so the rising and falling”: Hight and Stormont, Fifty-eighth Regiment, 442.
“The amount of property”: Mead Papers, LOC.
“depots of the Savannah and Gulf”: New York Herald, 12/30/1864.
“They looked tired”: Frances Howard incident in Jones, When Sherman Came, 87–88.
“General Sherman, the bravest”: Chicago Evening Journal, 1/10/1865.
“I…feel as if”: Roe, Papers, KNX.
“Savannah has fallen!”: Hurlbut, Letters, KNP.
“I beg to present you”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:231.
CHAPTER 22. “BUT WHAT NEXT?”
“All hands are working”: Hinkley, Papers, WHS.
“Nails had been collected”: Grunert, History, 160.
“The lovely square”/“noble Geary”: Quoted in Lawrence, Present for Mr. Lincoln, 213–14.
“All of our Squares”: Quoted in Smith, Civil War Savannah, 219.
“activated by no motives”: Quoted in Lawrence, Present for Mr. Lincoln, 213–14.
“spectacle of humbled”: Blair, Politician Goes to War, 220.
“In fact, 24 hours”: National Tribune, 9/12/1901.
“On the street”: Cincinnati Daily Commercial, 1/1/1865.
“things that seemed hard for us”: Quoted in Lawrence, Present for Mr. Lincoln, 224.
“They are all astonished”: Hutchinson, Papers, LSU.
“Where resistance is hopeless”: Quoted in Dyer, “Northern Relief for Savannah,” 460–61.
“Do you think”: Quoted in Lawrence, Present for Mr. Lincoln, 229.
“Oh it is a crying shame”: Ibid., 219.
“The proceedings will be used”: Miers, Rebel War Clerk’s Diary, 476.
“If there is one sink lower”: Quoted in Lawrence, Present for Mr. Lincoln, 219.
“No provision has been made”: OR 44:800.
“The city is beautifully laid out”: National Tribune, 9/12/1901.
“Many of the parks”: National Tribune, 6/20/1901.
“Every alternate square”: Baker, Memoir, ALL.
“a place of somber beauty”: Willison, Reminiscences, 105.
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