Southern Storm (86 page)

“positive information”: OR 44:536.

“a long and important”: Roman,
Military Operations
, 2:302.

“the most direct route”: OR 44:890.

“I will be obliged”: OR 44:536.

“an intelligent gentleman”:
Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel,
11/24/1864.

“had enjoyed a fine march”: Howard, “Sherman’s Advance from Atlanta,” 664.

“dense, penetrating”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.

“The roads are frozen”: Wagoner, “From Wauhatchie,” 121.

“a continuous medley”: Byrne,
Uncommon Soldiers
, 201.

“Each regiment”:
National Tribune,
10/21/1937.

“We had pancakes”: Lathrop,
John Smethurst
, 61.

“a grand scene”: Underwood,
Three Years’ Service
, 248.

“saw no signs”: Westervelt,
Lights and Shadows
, 85.

“a woman on horseback”: Girardi and Cheairs,
Memoirs
, 152.

“were quite numerous”: Ladd, “From Atlanta to the Sea,” 8.

“In passing through”: Hapeman, Diary, ALL.

“a soldier asked a woman”: McAdams,
Every-day Soldier Life
, 118.

“duly confiscated”: Johnson, “March to the Sea,” 321.

“The morning was quite frosty”/“Two of our boys”: Rosenow,
Pen Pictures,
105.

“A very unfortunate”: Floyd,
History of the Seventy-fifth
, 351.

“God hasten the day”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman
, 88.

“If they die”:
Sunny South,
11/30/1901.

“General Sherman passed”: Hoerner,
Chattanooga, Savannah and Alexandria
, 42.

“General Sherman rode”: Bryant,
History
, 286.

“We are now”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
90.

“Rascals
borrowed
”: Ibid., 89.

CHAPTER 15. “WE WENT FOR THEM ON THE RUN”

“rang out beautifully”:
92nd Illinois Volunteers,
180–81.

“Morning cold”: Trego, Diary, CHI.

“doubtless breathe”: Johnson, “March to the Sea,” 321.

“two explosions”: Parker, Papers, HL.

“Blew up”: Levey, Diary, MHI.

“Our cavalry”: Jones,
When Sherman Came
, 30–31.

“mere boys”: Ibid., 32.

“very ragged”: McKinley, “Memories,” UDC.

“women ran out”: Heyward-Ferguson, Papers, SHC.

“told him”: McKinley, “Memories,” UDC.

“plundering band”: Quoted in Bonner,
Milledgeville,
290.

“Then you have done”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
92.

“a few houses”: Sheahan, Diary, ALL.

“the usual amount”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.

“This Creek of itself”: Brockman, “John Van Duser Diary,” 226.

“The stream or swamp”: OR 44:272.

“The first thing”: Lockhart, “Civil War Memoir,” WHS.

“using timber”: OR 44:272.

“People are silly”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.

“While waiting here”: Parmater, Diary, OHS.

“In war everything”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
92–93.

“Long Bridge”:
Philadelphia Inquirer,
12/23/1864.

“We went double quick”: Lathrop,
John Smethurst,
62.

“From this on”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
91.

“Forage plenty”: Brant,
History of the Eighty-Fifth,
80.

“Among the variety”: Marvin,
Fifth Regiment,
356.

“The rebel bushwhackers”: Payne,
Thirty-Fourth Regiment,
165.

“The foragers”: Hapeman, Diary, ALL.

“We get meat fresh”: Daniels, Diary, UMB.

“The d——d old rebel”: Ross, Diary, ALL.

“little girl [who] said”: Hickman, Diary and Letters, UMB.

“had left them”: Trego, Diary, CHI.

“kept up a continual”: Sheahan, Diary, ALL.

“Here we destroyed”:
Lancaster Daily Evening Express,
1/3/1865.

“May all the names”: Quoted in Shivers,
Land Between,
163.

“The 1st and 3rd”: Federico,
Civil War Letters,
166.

“to have your picketing”: OR 44:546.

“I got on a post”: Omvig, Diaries, 114.

“If Georgia is saved”: Quoted in Hallock,
Braxton Bragg,
226.

“a great nuisance”: McAdoo, Diary, LOC.

“Now is the time”:
Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel,
11/25/1864.

“seems to be tending”/“will determine”: OR 44:895.

“thick haze”: Sharland,
Knapsack Notes,
23.

“Countermarched”: Jamison,
Recollections,
281.

“had to cut two roads”: Force, Papers, UWA.

“had to tare up”: Pratt Diary, WHS.

“General Howard”: Howard and Osterhaus exchange in
National Tribune,
1/23/1896; Howard,
Autobiography,
2:80.

“burning the Court House”: Chamberlin,
History,
151.

“mostly burned”: Burton, Diary, EU.

“now in ruins”: Hubert,
Fiftieth Regiment,
325.

“We…carried out the goods”: Gore, Diary, MHI.

“I then instructed”: Howard,
Autobiography,
2:80.

“I think”: OR 44:897.

“a ladies handsome”: Heyward-Ferguson Papers, SHC.

CHAPTER 16. “POOR FOOLISH SIMPLETONS”

“less than 1,000”: OR 53:34.

“to send off all movable”: OR 44:407.

“a very small”: Quoted in Davis,
Sherman’s March,
74.

“There was not an adult”:
Atlanta Journal,
6/14/1902.

“was well named”: Benton,
As Seen,
234.

“and with shouts”/“the sound of horses”: Toombs,
Reminiscences,
179.

“Presently, the pop-pop-pop”: Bryant,
History,
286.

“all the mounted officers”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.

“warm work”: Ladd, “From Atlanta to the Sea,” 9.

“I myself saw”: Sherman,
Memoirs,
2:191.

“not a battle”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
95.

“L.F.J.”: Incident recounted in Jones,
When Sherman Came,
41;
National Tribune,
3/31/1910.

“There was a wild chase”: Duncan, Papers, NJH.

“women were in great”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.

“Saw the 20th [Corps]”: Fultz, “History of Company D,” 5.

“and went to [a] large”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
96.

“We immediately commenced”: Short, Diary, WHS.

“This evening we got chickens”: Saylor, Letter, WHS.

“transfixed with terror”: Benton,
As Seen,
236–37.

“very angry”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
96.

“The co[u]rt house”/“went into a large drug store”: Johnson, “‘Make a Preacher Swear,’” 33.

“He was a happy man”: Ibid.

“had made odd fellows”/“Should judge the poor fellow”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.

“one of Co. C”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.

“putting him into a rough coffin”: Bradley,
Star Corps,
196.

“So sudden an advent”: Champlin, Diary, WRS.

“strong secesh”: McLean, Family Papers, NYL.

“an intelligent half blood”: Trowbridge, Papers, UMC.

“I don’t war on women”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
97.

“that, if the enemy”/“heard that the right wing”: Sherman,
Memoirs,
2:191.

“it may give the whole army”: Angle,
Three Years,
324.

“We marched at 7
A.M
.”:
Philadelphia Inquirer,
12/24/1864.

“forced march to rescue”/“The roads were dry”:
National Tribune,
5/17/1883.

“How our hearts leaped”: Ibid.

“destroyed a portion of the track”: OR 44:363.

“had lit out”: Lybarger,
Leaves,
2.

“to wash their clothing”:
Fifty-Fifth Regiment,
394.

“busy chucklucking”: Schweitzer, Diary, MHI.

“Officers from other commands”:
Reminiscences of the Civil War,
159.

“Old man to right of road”: Jamison,
Recollections,
281.

“would settle the frail”: Wright,
Sixth Iowa,
374.

“to take in all horses”: Schweitzer, Diary, MHI.

“We…went to the river”: Black, “Marching with Sherman,” 456.

“immense cavalcade”: Strong, Papers, ALL.

“‘Bummers’ are entitled”: OR 44:597.

“He was a logical product”/“The typical military bummer”: Taylor,
Lights and Shadows,
21.

“The Georgia forager”: Merrill,
Seventieth Indiana,
223.

“To provision his army”:
Springfield Daily Republican,
4/25/1887.

“It was an almost”: Fultz, “History of Company D,” 75.

“Georgia now seems”: Saunier,
History,
357.

“obliged to wade”: Osborn, Diary, MHI.

“Here we had plenty”: Hubert,
Fiftieth Regiment,
325.

“a lot of chairs”: Girdner, Letters, EU.

“have a skirmish nearly every day”: Roe, Papers, KNX.

“It is reported”: Clark,
Downing’s Civil War,
232.

“‘out let,’ and if 10,000”: Platter, “Civil War Diary,” UGA.

CHAPTER 17. “I NEVER WAS SO FRIGHTENED IN ALL MY LIFE”

“all combinations”/“In assuming it”: OR 44:901.

“Here, then, will be war”: Miers,
Rebel War Clerk’s Diary,
452-3.

“Here tearing the track”: Schwab, “Civil War Letters,” CIN.

“Good work”: Sherwood, Journal, MHI.

“Soldier, will you work”: Hubert,
Fiftieth Regiment,
325.

“This is the Sabbath”: Roe, Papers, KNX.

“a great deal of cotton”: Quint,
Record,
251.

“large buildings”: Pendergast, Family Papers, MHS.

“As the dense columns”: Fleharty,
Our Regiment,
117.

“Country very level”: Inskeep, Diary, OHS.

“There is strict orders”: Allspaugh, Diaries, UIA.

“Country good”: Wheeler, Letters and Journal, ALL.

“I think we destroy”: Parker, Papers, HL.

“I think a katydid”:
National Tribune,
4/2/1903.

“These animals were”:
National Tribune,
4/30/1903.

“sot fire to the well”: Sherman,
Memoirs,
2:192.

“great crowd of miserable”: Reeve, Papers, WHS.

“Women came with large”: Bradley,
Star Corps,
196.

“They would not leave us”: Otto,
Civil War Memoirs,
HS.

“It makes but little difference”: Wagoner, “From Wauhatchie,” 121–22.

“If ever Old Smith”: Brown,
Fourth Regiment,
343.

“About noon Slocum”: Sheahan Diary, ALL.

“Had quite an exhibition”: Bohrnstedt,
Soldiering with Sherman,
145.

“Gen. Slocum”: Trego, Diary, CHI.

“asking God’s blessing”: Jones,
When Sherman Came,
41;
National Tribune,
3/31/1910; [footnote]
National Tribune,
2/9/1911.

“If she spoke”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
99.

“it’s impossible”: Ibid., 101.

“Being as full of curiosity”: Angle,
Three Years,
326.

“not a plank disturbed”: Ibid., 326–27.

“an old wooden bridge”: Essington, Diary, ISL.

“tomorrow the second Act”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
106.

“unexpected, and in the darkness”:
National Tribune,
9/10/1903.

“fell back”: Ward, Diary, IHS.

“we could hear”:
National Tribune,
9/10/1903.

“Being mindful”: OR 44:408.

“A company of fifty men”:
92nd Illinois Volunteers,
183.

“Marched thirty miles”: Carter,
Story,
307.

“The rebels followed close”: Berkenes,
Private William Boddy,
154.

“It was evident”:
Lancaster Daily Evening Express,
1/3/1865.

“certainly the vilest”: Harper,
Second Georgia Infantry,
66.

“It is needless to say”: OR 44:363.

“sadly in need”: OR 44:375.

“The town was in flames”: OR 44:408.

“I deemed it prudent”: OR 44:363.

“The enemy’s position”: Quoted in
Philadelphia Inquirer,
12/5/1864.

“I cannot too strongly”: Jones-Seddon exchange in OR 44:903.

“The time has come”: Quoted in
Philadelphia Inquirer,
12/7/1864.

“Thus we approached”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
107.