Southern Storm (92 page)

“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.

CHAPTER 23. “THE BLOW WAS STRUCK AT THE RIGHT MOMENT AND IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION”

“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 blockaded”: 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.

Hewett, Janet B., Noah Andre Trudeau, and Bryce A. Suderow, eds.
Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.
Vol. 7. Wilmington, N.C.: Broadfoot, 1997.

Ingersoll, Lurton Dunham, ed.
Iowa and the Rebellion.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1866.

Moore, Frank, ed.
The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events.
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1866.

Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion.
30 vols. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1894–1922.

Reece, J. N., ed.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois Containing Reports for the Years 1861–66.
8 vols. Springfield, Ill.: Phillips Bros., 1900–1902.

Robertson, Jonathan, ed.
Michigan in the War.
Lansing, Mich.: W. S. George, 1882.

Report of the Adjutant General and Acting Quartermaster General of the State of Iowa, January 1, 1865, to January 1, 1866.
Des Moines, Iowa: F. W. Palmer, 1866.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 1861–1865.
8 vols. Indianapolis: Samuel M. Douglass, 1865–1869.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky.
Vol. 2,
1861–1866
. Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, 1867.

The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.
127 vols. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1880–1901.

UNION LEADERSHIP

Ambrose, Stephen E.
Halleck: Lincoln’s Chief of Staff.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1962.

Basler, Roy P.
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln.
9 vols. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

Catton, Bruce.
Grant Takes Command.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1968.

Donald, David Herbert.
Lincoln.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1995.

Grant, Ulysses S.
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
2 vols. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885.

Macartney, Clarence Edward.
Grant and His Generals.
New York: McBride, 1953.

McFeely, William S.
Grant: A Biography.
New York: W. W. Norton, 1981.

Oates, Stephen B.
With Malice toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln.
New York: Harper & Row, 1977.

Perret, Geoffrey.
Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier & President.
New York: Random House, 1997.

Simon, John Y., ed.
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant.
Vol. 12,
August 16–November 15, 1864.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984.

———.
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant
. Vol. 13.
November 16, 1864–February 20, 1865
. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985.

Simpson, Brooks D.
Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822–1865
. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

Smith, Jean Edward.
Grant
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

Temple, Wayne C., ed.
Campaigning with Grant
. 1897. Reprint, New York: Bonanza, 1961.

UNION FORCES (SAVANNAH CAMPAIGN)
Headquarters: Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman

Bower, Stephen E. “The Theology of the Battlefield: William Tecumseh Sherman and the U.S. Civil War.”
Journal of Military History
64, no. 4 (October 2000).

Bowman, S. M., and R. B. Irwin.
Sherman and His Campaigns: A Military Biography
. New York: Charles P. Richardson, 1865.

Boyd, James P.
The Life of General William T. Sherman
. Philadelphia: Publishers’ Union, 1891.

Brinsfield, John W. “The Military Ethics of General William T. Sherman.”
Parameters: Journal of the U.S. Army War College
12, no. 2 (June 1982).

Brockman, Charles J., ed. “The John Van Duser Diary of Sherman’s March from Atlanta to Hilton Head.”
Georgia Historical Quarterly
53, no. 2 (June 1969).

Byers, S. H. M. “Some Personal Recollections of General Sherman.”
McClure’s Magazine
3, no. 3 (August 1894).

Coulter, E. Merton. “Sherman and the South.”
North Carolina Historical Review
8, no. 1 (January 1931).

Cunningham, S. A. “Things Pertinent to War Times.”
Confederate Veteran
1, no. 2 (February 1893).

Disbrow, Donald W., ed. “Vett Noble of Ypsilanti: A Clerk for General Sherman.”
Civil War History
14, no. 1 (March 1968).

Fellman, Michael.
Citizen Sherman: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman
. New York: Random House, 1995.

———, ed.
Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman
. New York: Penguin, 2000.

Force, Manning F.
General Sherman
. New York: D. Appleton, 1899.

Hart, B. H. Liddell.
Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American
. New York: Da Capo Press, 1993.

Hitchcock, Henry. “General William T. Sherman.” In
Sketches of War History 1861–1865,
Vol. 1. St. Louis: Becktold, 1892.

Howe, M. A. DeWolfe, ed.
Home Letters of General Sherman
. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1909.

———.
Marching with Sherman
. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.

Hirshson, Stanley P.
The White Tecumseh: A Biography of William T. Sherman
. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997.

Kennett, Lee.
Sherman: A Soldier’s Life
. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.

Lewis, Lloyd.
Sherman: Fighting Prophet
. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1932.

“Major-General William T. Sherman.”
Hours at Home: A Popular Monthly of Instruction and Recreation
2, no. 1 (November 1865).

Markland, Absalom H., Papers. Manuscripts Division. Library of Congress.

Marszalek, John F.
Sherman: A Soldier’s Passion for Order
. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.

———.
Sherman’s Other War: The General and the Civil War Press
. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1999.

Merrill, James M.
William Tecumseh Sherman
. New York: Rand McNally, 1971.

Miers, Earl Schenck.
The General Who Marched to Hell
. New York: Dorset, 1990.

Nichols, George Ward.
The Story of the Great March
. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865.

Noble, Sylvester C. Papers, Vett Noble letters. Ypsilanti Historical Society, Ypsilanti, Mich.

Poe, Orlando M. Papers and Letters. Manuscripts Division. Library of Congress.

Report of the Proceedings of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee at the Twenty-Ninth Meeting, Held at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 27–28, 1897
. Cincinnati: F. W. Freeman, 1898.

Sherman, William T.
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
. New York: D. Appleton, 1886.

———. “The Grand Strategy of the War of the Rebellion.”
Century Magazine
35, no. 4 (February 1888).

———. “Old Shady, with a Moral.”
North American Review
147, no. 383 (October 1888).

———. “Sherman Reveals Something about His Strategy.”
Civil War Times Illustrated
33, no. 76 (July/August 1994).

———. Papers. Manuscripts Division. Library of Congress.

———. Papers. Manuscripts Collection. Chicago Historical Society.

Simpson, Brooks D., and Jean V. Berlin, eds.
Sherman’s Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Smalley, E. V. “General Sherman.”
Century Magazine
27, no. 3 (January 1884).

Spore, John B. “Sherman and the Press, Part One.”
Infantry Journal
63, no. 4 (October 1948).

———. “Sherman and the Press, Part Two.”
Infantry Journal
63, no. 5 (November 1948).

———. “Sherman and the Press, Part Three.”
Infantry Journal
63, no. 6 (December 1948).

Stiles, John C. “Sherman in War and Peace.”
Confederate Veteran
24, no. 7 (July 1916).

Thorndike, Rachel Sherman, ed.
The Sherman Letters: Correspondence between General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891.
New York: Da Capo Press, 1969.

Walters, John Bennett. “General William T. Sherman and Total War.”
Journal of Southern History
14, no. 4 (November 1948).

Wheeler, Richard, ed.
We Knew William Tecumseh Sherman.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1977.

ENGINEER/SIGNAL CORPS UNITS

Athearn, Robert G., ed. “An Indiana Doctor Marches with Sherman.”
Indiana Magazine of History
49, no. 4 (December 1953).

Baker, Daniel B.
A Soldier’s Experience in the Civil War.
Long Beach, Calif.: Graves & Hersey, 1914.

Brown, J. Willard.
The Signal Corps, U.S.A. in the War of the Rebellion.
Boston: U.S. Veteran Signal Corps Association, 1896.

Campbell Family. Papers. Michigan State University, East Lansing. Hight, John J., and Gilbert R. Stormont.
History of the Fifty-Eighth Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry.
Princeton, Ind.: Press of the Clarion, 1895.

Lovrien, Charles. Diary. Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, Kennesaw, Ga.

Mellon Jr., Knox, ed. “Letters of James Greenalch.”
Michigan History
44, no. 2 (June 1960).

Neal, William A.
An Illustrated History of the Missouri Engineer and the 25th Infantry Regiments.
Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, 1889.

Plum, William R.
The Military Telegraph during the Civil War in the United States.
Chicago: Jansen, McClurg, 1882.

Roseberry, Isaac. Diary. Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan; Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University.

Sligh, Charles R.
History of the Services of the First Regiment Michigan Engineers and Mechanics
. Grand Rapids, Mich: White, 1921.

Williams, Joshua W. Diary. Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington.

RIGHT WING: MAJ. GEN. OLIVER OTIS HOWARD

Bedford, Wimer. Papers. Manuscripts Division. Library of Congress. Harwell, Richard, and Philip N. Racine, eds.
The Fiery Trail
. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986.

Howard, Charles H. “Incidents and Operations Connected with the Capture of Savannah.” In
Military Essays and Recollections,
Vol. 4. Chicago: Cozzens Beaton, 1907.

Howard, Francis Thomas.
In and Out of the Lines
. New York: Neale, 1905.

Howard, Oliver Otis.
Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard
. 2 vols. New York: Baker & Taylor, 1907.

———. “Sherman’s Advance from Atlanta.” In
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War,
edited by Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel, 4 vols. New York: Century Company, 1887–1888.

McClintock, James M. Papers. 1861–1909. Manuscripts Collection. Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.

Reese, Chauncey B. “Military Messages, 1864.” Civil War Miscellaneous Collection, United States Army Military History Institute, Carlisle, Pa.

Sladen Family Papers. “Diary of Operations of the Army of the Tennessee.” United States Army Military History Institute, Carlisle, Pa.

Strong, William E. Papers. Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, Ill.

———. “An Account of the Capture of Fort McAllister.” William T. Sherman Papers. Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress.

Warnock, William R. “Oration.” In
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland
. Cincinnati: Robert Clark, 1892.

Woodhull, Maxwell Van Zandt. “A Glimpse of Sherman Fifty Years Ago.” In
War Papers
(District of Columbia Loyal Legion of the United States), vol. 4. Wilmington, N.C.: Broadfoot, 1993.

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TH CORPS: MAJ. GEN. PETER J. OSTERHAUS

Abernethy, Alonzo. Diary, 1864–1865. State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines.

———. “Incidents of an Iowa Soldier’s Life; or, Four Years in Dixie.”
Annals of Iowa,
ser. 3, vol. 12, pp. 401–428 (1920).

Albertson Family Papers. Georgia Historical Society.

Alley, John Marshall. Memoirs. United States Civil War Center. www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/projects/alley/alley.htm.

Ambrose, Daniel L.
History of the Seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry.
Springfield: Illinois Journal Company, 1868.