Southern Storm (84 page)

“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.

“thoroughly destroyed”: OR 44:270.

“The roads are rather”: McLean, Family Papers, NYL.

“loaded down”: Grunert,
History
, 126.

“There were old Pomps”: Wagoner, “From Wauhatchie,” 119.

“You Yankees did it”: Fleharty,
Our Regiment,
112.

“I don’t know”: Bradley,
Star Corps
, 187.

“Why ma’am”: Byrne,
Uncommon Soldiers
, 260.

“Like demons”: Lunt,
Woman’s Wartime Journal,
20–32.

“Troops have plenty”: Burkhalter, Diary, ALL.

“Plenty of corn”: Ege, Papers, WHS.

“There was sport”: Otto,
Civil War Memoirs
, WHS.

“Several…men wounded”: Ege, Papers, WHS.

“were accidentally shot”: Ladd, “From Atlanta to the Sea,” 7.

“accidentally wounded”: Payne,
Thirty-fourth Regiment,
164.

“Provost guards”: Emmons, Diaries, UIA.

“Negroes by the hundred”: Essington, Diary, ISL.

“the negroes”: Angle,
Three Years,
311.

“queer old cock”/“Confederates were a great deal”/“I have been three years”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman
, 750.

“Gen. Sherman sitting”: Ross, Diary, ALL.

“The country was sparsely settled”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:183.

“rapidly disappearing”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
75–76.

“beautiful town”: Hedley,
Marching through Georgia,
311.

“colors flying”: McMillan, Papers, WHS.

“any amount of fine looking”/“a pretty little village”/“it was reduced”: Christie, Family Papers, MHS.

“the point of it”: Harwell and Racine,
Fiery Trail
, 56.

“the men floundering”: Wright,
Sixth Iowa
, 361.

“We took the wrong road”: Brown,
Fourth Regiment,
341.

“every man”: Dunbar, Diary, BHS.

“Gen. Howard sat”: Jones,
When Sherman Came
, 20.

“divided amongst”: Gay, Diary, SHI.

“Roads very slippery”: Tomlinson,
“Dear Friends,”
172.

“a hard day’s travel”: Berkenes,
Private William Boddy,
152.

“General Kilpatrick”:
New York Herald,
12/28/1864.

“valuable information”: OR 44:369.

“learned that part”: Moore,
Kilpatrick and Our Cavalry,
178.

“ordered Wheeler”: OR 44:870.

CHAPTER 11. “UGLY WEATHER”

“push on toward”: OR 44:496.

“ugly weather”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
76.

“the plantation”:
New York Herald,
12/22/1864.

“We are told”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
78.

“The brigade band”: Owens,
Greene County
, 100.

“that she had heard”: Sawyer, Letters, WHS.

“the weather rainy”: OR 44:270.

“was thick”: Chapman,
Civil War Diary
, 101.

“the clayey roads”: Trowbridge, Papers, UMC.

“The roads were in a bad”: Cruikshank, “Civil War Letters.”

“The Yankees left us”: Massey, “Recollections,” UDC.

“The inhabitants seemed”: Boies,
Record,
104.

“While passing”: Fleharty,
Our Regiment,
113.

“We must go”: Halsey,
Yankee Private’s Civil War,
113–14.

“The animals”: Baker,
Soldier’s Experience
, 40.

“supposed [it] to be”: Platter, “Civil War Diary,” UGA.

“A colored gal”: Cryder and Stanley,
“War for the Union,”
458.

“It excited many a pun”: Sharland,
Knapsack Notes
, 17–18.

“muddy & very foggy”: Unknown Diarist, SHI.

“The roads were so”: Saunier,
History
, 353.

“nearly every man”: Grecian,
History,
61.

“Push on active”: Beauregard messages in OR 44:872–74.

“Let not this stirring”:
Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel,
11/20/1864.

“I think Sherman”: Miers,
Rebel War Clerk’s Diary,
450.

“We were free”: Barber,
Army Memoirs
, 180.

“The arsenal was guarded”:
National Tribune,
6/9/1887.

“After this work”: OR 44:390.

“given orders to search”:
Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel,
12/1/1864.

“numbering from”: Ibid.

“convinced the inhabitants”: OR 44:270–71.

“The shoes were given”: Hoerner,
Chattanooga, Savannah and Alexandria
, 42.

“Every house”: Noble, Papers, UMB.

“the reg’t passed”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.

“Every cotton shed”: Trowbridge, Papers, UMC.

“I believe”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.

“We would hear”: Jones,
When Sherman Came
, 29.

“factory was burnt”: Poe, Papers and Letters, LOC.

“a large cotton factory”: Ladd, “From Atlanta to the Sea,” 7.

“Plenty of forage”: Ege, Papers, WHS.

“The foragers brought in”: McAdams,
Every-day Soldier Life
, 117.

“We have marched”: Pendergast, Family Papers, MHS.

“Here the colored peoples”: Essington, Diary, ISL.

“dancing and bobbing”: Kellogg,
Army Life of an Illinois Soldier
, 28.

“formed into a ring”: Girardi and Cheairs,
Memoirs,
149.

“In moving to Milledgeville”: OR 44:501.

“The discharge”: Orders in OR 44:502–3.

“I don’t think”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
79.

“It has commenced to rain”: Bargus, Diary, MHI.

“awful for man”: McMillan, Papers, WHS.

“mud is deep”: Anderson,
Civil War Diary
, 177.

“the roads have become”: Clark,
Downing’s Civil War,
230.

“during the day”:
National Tribune
, 6/6/1901.

“outrages committed”: OR 44:505.

“Lots of rain”: Keyes, Diary, MHI.

“In the mud”: Scheel,
Rain, Mud & Swamps,
462.

“All quiet”: Engerud,
1864 Diary
, 48.

“This evening the cavalry”: Moses, “Civil War Diary.”

“a second demonstration”: Howard, “Sherman’s Advance from Atlanta,” 664.

“but not sacrifice”:
New York Herald,
12/22/1864.

“There was a rebel force”:
New York Times,
2/26/1876.

“They made a stubborn resistance”: Ward, Diary, IHS.

“Do you recollect”: Swedberg,
Three Years,
233.

“For God’s sake”: Kilpatrick telegraph incident in
New York Times,
12/28/1864;
New York Herald,
12/28/1864.

“Our fun was over”:
New York Times,
2/26/1876.

“It was quite a descent”:
National Tribune,
5/10/1883.

“Seeing that the [captured] guns”: OR 44:404.

“until the trains”: OR 44:498.

“Some of our troops”:
Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel,
11/30/1864.

CHAPTER 12. “BUT BLESS GOD, HE DIED FREE!”

“Burned Denham’s Factory”: OR 44:306.

“When we left”: Failing-Knight, Papers, MHS.

“were burning”: OR 44:320.

“roads were perfectly horrid”: Failing-Knight, Papers, MHS.

“very deep”: OR 44:271.

“The skies were heavy”: Harris,
On the Plantation
, 227–28.

“morning dawned dark”: OR 44:252.

“Men under difficulty”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.

“Ground very soft”: Trego, Diary, CHI.

“The roads were so bad”: Lathrop,
John Smethurst
, 60.

“Genl Slocum cussed”: Trego, Diary, CHI.

“yelled [until] their throats”: Duncan, Papers, NJH.

“looked like”: Michael, Diary, IHS.

“quite a ridiculous”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.

“Burnt 3 large”: Kittinger, Diary, MHI.

“a very shammy”:
New York Herald,
12/28/1864.

“You never saw”: Quoted in Walters,
Oconee River
, 298. 171

“passed through Eatonton”: Adams, Diary, n.p.

“At Eatonton”: Hurst,
Journal-History
, 156.

“the darkies there”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
78.

“I never saw”: McDonnell, “Reminiscences,” UDC.

“What is the matter”: Harris,
On the Plantation
, 227–28.

“soil here”: Gould and Kennedy,
Memoirs
, 296.

“The mud was ankle deep”: Pendergast, Family Papers, MHS.

“The difficulties”: Widney, Diary and Letters, KNP.

“Every body”: Ege, Papers, WHS.

“Dismal day”/“a very smart negro”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
80.

“Dar’s de man”: Ibid., 81–82.

“might…catch”: Howard,
Autobiography
, 2:71.

“Weather wet”: McKee, Diary, SHI.

“The roads”: Cluett,
History of the 57th,
90.

“mud in places”: Hubert,
Fiftieth Regiment,
324.

“continuous wet”: OR 44:125.

“They drove off”: Jones,
When Sherman Came
, 20.

“in some places”: Grunert,
History
, 128.

“I went to a farm house”: Noble, Papers, UMB.

“living bully”: Pierce, Diary, MHI.

“captured thirty mules”: Hoerner,
Chattanooga, Savannah and Alexandria
, 42.

“I…was compelled”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.

“about sixty wagons”: OR 44:253–54.

“The rest of my vigil”:
National Tribune,
1/25/1923.

“tore down”: Sheahan, Diary, ALL.

“Men are foraging”: Orr, “Civil War Diary.”

“Plenty of forage”: Fahnestock, Diary, KNP.

“Many of the female slaves”: Pendergast, Family Papers, MHS.

“not heartless”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
82–83.