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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 15: Sherman's March to the sea.--Thomas's campaign in Middle Tennessee.--events in East Tennessee. (search)
isions, commanded respectively, by Generals C. R. Woods, W. B. Hazen, J. M. Corse, and J. E. Smith. The Seventeenth Corps, Gg the dirt road leading to Savannah, while the divisions of Hazen and J. E. Smith were still further to the right. At States Finally, on the 13th, December, 1864. Sherman ordered General Hazen to carry Fort McAllister by assault with his second div the direction of Ossabaw Sound, for a Government steamer. Hazen and Fort McAllister were then exchanging shots, the former the fleet. With their glasses the two commanders could see Hazen's skirmishers approach the fort, and very soon that leader and Coosawhatchie rivers. That doubt was soon removed. Hazen had signaled back to Sherman, I am ready and will assault aver. He tarried there a moment to offer congratulations to Hazen, and then pushed on to meet the tug, from which he had receat March from the Chattahoochee to the sea, and crowned General Hazen with an unfading chaplet of honor. It opened to Sherma