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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 21 (search)
, and General Thomas started to-day to drive Forrest out of Tennessee. Our roads should be watched from the rear, and I am glad that General Grant has ordered reserves to Nashville. I prefer for the future to make the movement on Milledgeville, Millen, and Savannah. Hood now rests twenty-four miles south, on the Chattahoochee, with his right on the West Point road. He is removing the iron of the Macon road.. I can whip his infantry, but his cavalry is to be feared. There was great diffice Mountain, about sixty miles southwest of Rome, from which he will threaten Kingston, Bridgeport, and Decatur, Alabama. I propose that we break up the railroad from Chattanooga forward, and that we strike out with our wagons for Milledgeville, Millen, and Savannah. Until we can repopulate Georgia, it is useless for us to occupy it; but the utter destruction of its roads, houses, and people, will cripple their military resources. By attempting to hold the roads, we will lose a thousand men e
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 22 (search)
ders for the next stage of the march as far as Millen. These were, substantially, for the right wincircuit to the north, and to march rapidly for Millen, to rescue our prisoners of war confined thereynesboroa, on the branch railroad leading from Millen to Augusta. He found Wheeler's division of ref the left wing continuing its march on toward Millen. Near Waynesboroa Wheeler was again encounterrains of all molestation during their march on Millen. Having thus covered that flank, he turned so Fourteenth Corps to Buckhead Church, north of Millen and near it. On the 3d of December I entered Millen with the Seventeenth Corps (General Frank P. Blair), and there paused one day, to communicaon the Augusta road, about ten miles north of Millen, and the cavalry division was within easy supp, and I concluded to push on for Savannah. At Millen I learned that General Bragg was in Augusta, ad ten thousand men. I caused the fine depot at Millen to be destroyed, and other damage done, and th[1 more...]