Southern Storm (85 page)

“Satisfied”: Beauregard, Papers, DU.

“Rebs attacked”: Keyes, Diary, MHI.

“This evening the rebel cavalry”: Bush, “Civil War Letters and Diary,” ISL.

“tried to cut off”: Corbin,
Star for Patriotism
, 159.

“went off in a bigger”: Gay, Diary, SHI.

“The rebels attacked”: Schweitzer, Diary, MHI.

“Met the rebel cavalry”: Unknown diarist, in Sherman Papers, LOC.

“corralled the wagons”: Clark,
Downing’s Civil War
, 230.

“General, what”: Rufus Kelly incident in OR 53:32; Tinsley, “Kelly’s Defense of Gordon,” 335.

“General Sherman”:
Chicago Evening Journal
, 1/10/1865.

CHAPTER 13. “WE ‘SHOT LOW AND TO KILL’”

“Very cold last night”: Parker, Papers, HL.

“the cold wind”: Pendergast, Family Papers, MHS.

“men really suffered”: Wilcox, Diary, MHI.

“Nearly every man”: Widney, Diary and Letters, KNP.

“foraged sweet potatoes”: Chamberlain, Papers, IHS.

“help feeling pity”: Reeve, Papers, WHS.

“Miserable, cloudy”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.

“blankets were wet”: Failing-Knight, Papers, MHS.

“It told heavily”: Bryant,
History
, 278.

“extensive gardens”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.

“lives like a
prince
”: Ames, Diary, MHI.

“the good people”: Short, Diary, WHS.

“him out of everything”: Morrow, Diary, MHI.

“I immediately”: Moore,
Rebellion Record
, 9:147.

“we were escorted”: Bartlett,
“Dutchess County Regiment,”
139.

“a blank-looking set”: Potter,
Reminiscences,
112.

“old negroes”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.

“God bless you!”/“Why-why”: Merrill,
Seventieth Indiana
, 225, 220.

“To-day we followed”: Scott, “‘With Tears in Their Eyes,’” 28.

“We had time”: Brockman, “John Van Duser Diary,” 224.

“Not so much shooting”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
83.

“Sherman was in fine”: OR 44:183.

“pick out the place”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:185.

“I sent word back”: Ibid.

“He’s got the Linkum head”: Angle,
Three Years,
317.

“Dis Mr. Sharman?”: Sherman and slave story in Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
4; Brockman, “John Van Duser Diary,” 224; Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:186.

“uncle was not cordial”: Ibid., 2:187.

“greatest general”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
85.

“making further orders”: OR 44:519.

“All supplies”: OR 44:880.

“to direct efforts”: OR 44:881.

“every other consideration”: OR 44:883.

“I have assumed”: Ibid.

“I need scarcely”: McAdoo, Diary, LOC.

“lengthened”: Chandler,
Confederate Records
, 676–771.

“was at Macon”: OR 44:884.

“Georgia’s hour of trial”:
Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel,
11/22/1864.

“a few shoemakers”: Quoted in Hillhouse,
History of Burke County
, 134–35.

“Cold and snowflakes”: Daniels, Diary, HL.

“ground froze”: McMillan, Papers, WHS.

“roasted Chicken”: Grender,
Civil War Diary
, 48.

“We have just left”: Sharland,
Knapsack Notes
, 21.

“The citizens somewhat”: Lybarger,
Leaves
, 2.

“This was a very nice”: Daniels, Diary, HL.

“If we started south”: Fultz, “History of Company D,” 74.

“First, and all-important”: Hedley,
Marching through Georgia,
314–18.

“all…crowded”: Rood, “Sketches,” 366.

“Very heavy cannonading”: Bargus, Diary, MHI.

“twenty miles”: OR 55:33.

“Heavy cannonading”: OR 44:882.

“marched about a mile”: Dunbar, Diary, BHS.

“through the woods”: Trimble,
Ninety-third Regiment,
146.

“The rails are laid”: Kinley, Diary, SHI.

“the plan adopted”:
National Tribune,
4/23/1903.

“We enjoyed a snow”: Platter, “Civil War Diary,” UGA.

“cleared up”: Gore, Diary, MHI.

“Yankee picnic”: Unknown Diarist, in Sherman, Papers, LOC.

“Roads very bad”: Smith,
Seventh Iowa,
199.

“As the mules drop”: Hubert,
Fiftieth Regiment,
324.

“Every one”: Gore, Diary, LOC.

“hard pulling”: Chamberlin,
History,
150.

“wagons broke”: Roe, Papers, KNX.

“and after robbing”: Castel,
Tom Taylor’s Civil War,
199.

“It was the bitterest”: Account in Taylor,
Destruction and Reconstruction
, 250.

“All the fire”: King, Letter, GSA.

“to halt before reaching”: Smith, “Georgia Militia,” 667.

“fugitives…dashing”/“for the double purpose”: OR 44:382.

“severe skirmishing”:
Lancaster Daily Evening Express,
1/3/1865.

“Cobb was delighted”: Taylor,
Destruction and Reconstruction
, 250.

“General Walcutt”: OR 44:82.

“Found Rebel Cav’y”:
Reminiscences of the Civil War,
151.

“east toward Savannah”: Taylor,
Destruction and Reconstruction
, 250.

“was instructed”: Smith, “Georgia Militia,” 667.

“We drove back”: Kirwan,
Johnny Green
, 175.

“We…drove them back”:
Reminiscences of the Civil War,
153–54.

“After finding”: Wheeler, Letter, UGA.

“an open prairie”: OR 44:83.

“at 12 or 1 o’clock”: OR 53:41.

“We gathered rails”:
National Tribune,
2/17/1887.

“We were getting dinner”:
Reminiscences of the Civil War,
151.

“We used everything”: Anderson,
We Are Sherman’s Men,
118.

“the enemy posted”: OR 53:41.

“an eligible site”: OR 53:42.

“avoid a fight”/“If pressed”/“General: the whole division”: OR 53:40.

“lying behind a [tree] stump”: Arndt, “Reminiscences of an Artillery Officer,” 288.

“jeers and sneers”: Quoted in Bragg, “Little Battle,” 49.

“an advance”: OR 53:42.

“The enemy’s forces”: Wright,
Sixth Iowa
, 366.

“The enemy advanced”:
National Tribune,
2/17/1887.

“after the sponge and rammer”: Arndt, “Report of Griswoldville,” 523.

“made the rails”:
National Tribune,
9/25/1890.

“The enemy’s well served”: Wright,
Sixth Iowa
, 368.

“The rebel infantry approached”:
National Tribune,
9/25/1890.

“We charged them”: Jackson, Diary, KNP.

“The music of shot”:
National Tribune,
9/1/1910.

“As soon as”: OR 44:107.

“was most terrible”:
Reminiscences of the Civil War
, 155.

“enabled us to keep”: Winther,
With Sherman to the Sea,
137.

“we ‘shot low’”:
National Tribune,
2/17/1887.

“in fine style”: OR 53:42.

“quite a hard fight”: Anderson,
We Are Sherman’s Men
, 117.

“came at us with force”: Bush, “Civil War Letters and Diary,” ISL.

“charged us”: Carr, Diary, KNP.

“We kept on loading”:
National Tribune,
9/1/1910.

“As I had already”: OR 44:105.

“The firing was incessant”: OR 53:44.

“the boys fell”: Quoted in Bragg,
Griswoldville,
126.

“(from some cause”: OR 53:42.

“My neighborhood”: Wright,
Sixth Iowa
, 368.

“I never saw our boys fight”: Winther,
With Sherman to the Sea
, 136.

“At one time”: OR 44:107.

“a rather severe”: Osterhaus, “U.S. Army Generals’ Report,” NA.

“Just about half way across”: Langford, “William Bedford Langford,” UDC.

“and, ammunition”: OR 53:44.

“leaving some of our killed”: Quoted in Livingston,
Fields of Gray
, 151.

“The scenes of death”: Wright,
Sixth Iowa
, 368.

“It was a harvest”: Winther,
With Sherman to the Sea,
138.

“I was never so affected”:
Reminiscences of the Civil War,
153.

“I could not help but pity”: Bush, “Civil War Letters and Diary,” ISL.

“The field was almost covered”:
National Tribune,
9/1/1910.

“We took all inside”:
Reminiscences of the Civil War,
153.

“They were badly mixed up”:
National Tribune,
2/17/1887.

“mournful sighing”: Wright,
Sixth Iowa
, 371.

“The Militia has been”: Quoted in Livingston,
Fields of Gray
, 159.

“distinguished gallantry”: Text contained on Georgia State Historical Marker 084-21.

“and supposed killed”:
Macon Daily Telegraph
, 11/24/1864.

“it would have resulted”: OR 53:42.

“success in driving”: OR 53:40.

“to avoid an engagement”: OR 44:414.

“From all the information”: King, Letter, GSA.

CHAPTER 14. “THE FIRST ACT IS WELL PLAYED”

“the now important”: OR 44:878.

“The cadets”: Joyce, “From Infantry to Cavalry,” 300.

“I am expecting”: OR 44:878.

“The first stage”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:187.

“not used”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
86.

“First act”: Ibid., 85.

“looked…like a person”: McKinley, “Memories,” UDC.

“Captured wagons”:
Philadelphia Weekly Times,
1/17/1880.

“The bravery of the school boys”: Joyce, “From Infantry to Cavalry,” 300.

“completely destroyed”: Cruikshank, “Civil War Letters.”

“It was really amusing”: Scofield, Papers, GHS.

“all public buildings”: Collins,
Memoirs
, 294.

“The State House”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.

“All polite and intelligent”: Trego, Diary, CHI.

“Stayed in the city”: Chapman, “Civil War Diary,” 102.

“very curious way”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.

“valuable things”: Grunert,
History
, 123.

“many a poor soldier”: Wallace,
Sixty-First Ohio,
29.

“purchasing power”: Wagoner, “From Wauhatchie,” 120.

“them happy”: Bryant,
History
, 284.

“Settlement was made”: Baldwin, Papers, HL.

“miserable weapons”: Ames, Diary, MHI.

“if they intended to fight”: Short, Diary, WHS.

“formidable looking”: Fleharty,
Our Regiment,
114.

“a pretty fair sample”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.

“Choice literary”/“Public libraries”: Angle,
Three Years,
408.

“He looked”: Trego, Diary, CHI.

“Motions were made”: Boies,
Record,
101.

“Gen. Kilpatrick”: Bryant,
History
, 285.

“In a moment”: Boies,
Record,
101.

“not present”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:190.

“How my blood boiled”: Harris, Papers, DU.

“We got plenty”: Abernethy, Diary, SHI.

a flurry of orders: Hazen,
Narrative
, 315–17.

“We sent a few bullets”: Joyce, “From Infantry to Cavalry,” 300.

“We kept down”: Cryder and Stanley,
“War for the Union,”
457.

“the enemy”: OR 44:154.

“carpets, curtains”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:188.

“It would have been wrong”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
86.

“Augusta [was not]”:
New York Times,
1/29/1876.

Special Field Orders No. 127: OR 44:527.

“These were, substantially”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:190.

“I want you”:
New York Times,
2/26/1876.

“I advanced”: Quoted in Jones,
Siege of Savannah
, 48.

“became panic stricken”:
Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel
, 11/29/1864.

“Send me 5,000”: OR 44:887.

“found about”: Christie, Family Papers, MHS.

“I heard a loud explosion”: Bradley,
Star Corps
, 191.

“in well-informed circles”/“Milledgeville”: Quoted in
Philadelphia Inquirer
, 11/28/1864.

“General Sherman is not”:
Richmond Examiner
, 9/24/64.

“that S
HERMAN’S
march”: Quoted in
Philadelphia Inquirer,
11/28/1864.

“every effort”: OR 44:891.

“might have to ask him”: Howard,
Autobiography
, 2:79.

“3,000 men”: OR 44:891–93.

“more than 800”: OR 53:34.