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William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid 2 0 Browse Search
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
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will depend upon the reenforcements that can be spared for this command? Ed. R. Canby, Major-General. Kingston, Georgia, November 7, 1864. General Canby, New Orleans. Beauregard has left Georgia altogether and shifted across to the neighborhood of Florence, Alabama, threatening to invade Tennessee. We are all ready for him there, and I have still an army with which to go on. If you hear I have destroyed Atlanta and marched south, be prepared with boats to send me supplies from Ponchartrain, and have the navy look out for my fires and rocket signals along the east side of Mobile Bay, as high up as Old Blakely. W. T. Sherman, Major-General. The last letter written by General Sherman to General Grant before cutting loose from Atlanta, was dated November 6th. It is referred to in the Memoirs, but not quoted. It contains the following significant passages: The only question in my mind is whether I ought not to have dogged him [Hood] far over into Mississippi, * * *