“wonderful spring”: Stelle, 1861 to 1865, 22.
“The guns, the shot”: Hight and Stormont, Fifty-eighth Regiment, 446.
“have been exposing”: Quoted in Lawrence, Present for Mr. Lincoln, 231.
“one of the theaters”: Tallman, Memoir, MHI.
“One thing I must mention”: Stelle, 1861 to 1865, 22.
“Oh the wickedness”: Dillon, Letters, ALL.
“Thousands of soldiers”: Floyd, History of the Seventy-fifth, 360.
“Our squad was well provided”: Bean, Diary, SHC.
“There is a hundred and twenty men”: Rattenbury, From Wisconsin to the Sea, 81.
“Listen to the menu”: Kerr, “From Atlanta to Raleigh,” 217.
“There was quite a lot of citizens”: Dunbar, Diary, BHS.
“delightful entente cordiale”/“the tastiest Secesh”: Quoted in Smith, Civil War Savannah, 224–25.
“Each little knot”: Quoted in Wheeler, Sherman’s March, 142.
“There is the most hoars”: Quoted in Lawrence, Present for Mr. Lincoln, 214.
“the best joke”: Lancaster Daily Evening Express, 1/3/1865.
“a rebel blockade runner”: Quoted in Wheeler, Sherman’s March, 144.
“They did not find out”: Grunert, History, 163.
“She was a long”: Hubert, Fiftieth Regiment, 348.
“While I am writing this”: Stone, “Civil War Letter,” 66.
“Quite a joke”: Emmons, Diaries, UIA.
“cleaned our quarters”: Buerstatte, “Civil War Diary.”
“I saw one hundred dollar”: Brant, History of the Eighty-fifth, 88–89.
“It did not seem”: Farwell, Papers, SHI.
“witnessed the imposing”: Quoted in Schmidt, Civil War History, 1078.
“rice boiled in water”: Glossbrenner, Diary, MHI.
“most awful lonesome”: Utterback, Diary, SHI.
“rather a dull Christmas”: Engerud, 1864 Diary, 53.
“Had a Review today”: Gore, Diary, MHI.
“The arms glistened”: Brown, Fourth Regiment, 354.
“The troops made”: Inskeep, Diary, OHS.
“Uncle Billy’s dolled”: Quoted in Lawrence, Present for Mr. Lincoln, 230.
“is a keen looking man”: Corbin, Letters, MHI.
“The Generals looked well”: Daniels, Diary, HL.
“‘Uncle Billy’ is the pet”: Marvin, Fifth Regiment, 364.
“Gen. Sherman was very much”: Duncan, Papers, NJH.
“Gen’l Sherman himself”: Harwell and Racine, Fiery Trail, 185.
“They call us”: Quaife, From the Cannon’s Mouth, 355.
“We went to the sity”: Rowell, Yankee Cavalrymen, 218.
“did very well”: McLean, Family Papers, NYL.
“a splendid sight”: Dunbar, Diary, BHS.
“Such a march”: Andrews, Footprints, 155.
“up a tale of disaster”: Younger, Inside the Confederate Government, 181.
“Therefore it struck me”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:236.
“but when I ask”/“I treat an English subject”: Simpson and Berlin, Sherman’s Civil War, 778.
“was not a man in his army”: Hodgson, Journal, UGA.
“I would not be surprised”: Howe, Home Letters, 330.
“A single mistake” (footnote): Ibid., 329.
“elegant & splendidly furnished”: Simpson and Berlin, Sherman’s Civil War, 778.
“gone to join Willy”: Quoted in Hirshson, White Tecumseh, 268.
“It would amuse you to see”: Simpson and Berlin, Sherman’s Civil War, 778.
“Frequently they come in”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 202.
“manifested an almost criminal dislike”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:247–48.
“You are understood”: Quoted in Fellman, Citizen Sherman, 163.
“approaching Savannah I had”: Simpson and Berlin, Sherman’s Civil War, 794–95.
“But the nigger?”: Ibid.
“many interesting incidents”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:244.
“was an excellent soldier”/“I had heard”/“old and young”: Ibid., 2:244–45.
“a friend and gentleman”/“hundreds or thousands”. Ibid., 2:245–47.
“As they marched”: New York Herald, 1/5/1865.
“I am right” (footnote): Howe, Home Letters, 328.
“temporary provisions”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:245–47.
“My Dear General Sherman”: OR 44:809.
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“the active campaign”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:268.
“Oh, proud”: quoted in Wheeler, Sherman’s March, 231.
“soon reached”: Byers, “Some Personal Recollections,” 214.
“You hit it splendidly”: Ibid.
“The importance of the march”: New York Times, 2/26/1876.
“will go down in history”: Essington, Diary, ISL.
“march has been”: Capron, “War Diary,” 397.
“This part of Georgia”: Risedorph, Papers, MHS.
“It is terrible to think of”: Buckingham, Papers, AAS.
“As you are aware”: Levings, Papers, WHS.
“Georgia [is] in a helpless”: National Tribune, 1/29/1891.
“looks hard to see”/“On the entire route”: Elseffer, Papers, LOC.
“On our march”: Lancaster Daily Evening Express, 1/3/1865.
“The Union army”: Taylor, Lights and Shadows, 20.
“most fortunate”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 167–68.
“gentlemen of singular”: OR 44:14.
“I beg to assure”: Moore, Kilpatrick and Our Cavalry, 194.
“I am nervous”: Coker, Letters, UGA.
“The people of Georgia”: McWhorter, Letter, UGA.
“Even Georgian soldiers”: Athens (Georgia) Southern Banner, 1/11/1865.
“I feel very little inclined”: Quoted in Kennett, Marching through Georgia, 312.
“because her people”: Ibid.
“what in the hell”: Ibid.
“All around the grove”: Jones, Family Papers, UGA.
“killed, mules taken”: Clark, Papers, EU.
“Where there were no houses”: Quoted in Brannen, Life in Old Bulloch, 55.
“Many of us”: Quoted in Bryan, Confederate Georgia, 169.
“What the people”: Hoyle letter, Bomar-Killian Family Papers, AHC.
“was now winter”: Jones, When Sherman Came, 44.
“kind relatives”: Buttrill, “Experience in the War”, GSA.
“Now I reckon”: Berry, Letter, EU.
“There was a great crop”: Quoted in Brannen, Life in Old Bulloch, 56.
“time has come”: Quoted in Parks, Joseph E. Brown, 315.
“I hope that S.C.”: Maguire, Papers, AHC.
“I would rather”: Cunningham, Family Papers, UGA.
“real Union sentiment”: Gatell, “Yankee Views,” 430.
“We fear the negroes”: Hoyle letter, Bomar-Killian Family Papers, AHC.
“When Sherman’s army”: Quoted in Drago, “How Sherman’s March,” 367.
“They thronged the line”: Boyle, Soldiers True, 262.
“It was very amusing”: Howland, Letters, NYH.
“useless creatures”: Girardi and Cheairs, Memoirs, 145.
“unadulterated miserable”: Edmonds, Papers, MHI.
“The soldiers had no little fun”: American Tribune, 2/11/1892.
“The poor Darkies”: Winther, With Sherman to the Sea, 136.
“We find the colored”: Taylor, Diary, EU.
“When, as often happened”: Fifty-fifth Regiment, 401.
“that a large Rebel force”: Storrs, Twentieth Connecticut, 150–51.
“Two Sergeants”: Morhous, Reminiscences, 135–36.
“New negro pioneer squads”: Champlin, Diary, WRS.
“Pioneer Corps”: Christie, Family Papers, MHS.
“Rebels have blo
ckaded”: Reed, “Civil War Diaries,” MHS.
“The roads were nothing”: Sherlock, Memorabilia, 170.
“I attached much”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:180.
“cars now run”: OR 44:1013.
“I only regarded”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:220.
“The romantic character”: Badeau, “Sherman’s March to the Sea,” 543.
“We had a gay trip”: Naylor, Letters, OHS.
“this traveling picnic”: Quoted in Stern, Soldier Life, 172.
“bitter feeling toward the North”: Eaton, A History, 284–58.
“by acts of cruelty”: New York Herald, 5/21/1875.
“If W. T. Sherman’s face”: Confederate Veteran, 19:272.
“I wish I had a dollar”: Quoted in Royster, Destructive War, 364–65.
“I did that”: Confederate Veteran, 10:291.
“against the use”: Confederate Veteran, 25:392.
“probably its worst devastation”/“the most disliked person”: Quoted in Henken, “Taming the Enemy,” 291, 293.
“rash in cutting loose”: Howe, Home Letters, 320–21.
“with grim despair”: Potter, Reminiscences, 108.
“We were the first”: Howland, Letters, NYH.
“some few,” Brush, Letters, ALL.
“I cannot withhold”: Brown, Papers, DU.
“They would kill”: Quoted in Kennett, Marching through Georgia, 301.
“in favor of Sherman’s plan”: Grant, Personal Memoirs, 2:376.
“I will accept no”: Thorndike, Sherman Letters, 245.
“How few there are”: Simon, Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, 13:203.
“the singular friendship”: Howe, Home Letters, 323.
“The ‘March to the Sea’”: New York Times, 10/5/1875.
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