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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 17 (search)
and I saw that we must go on without them. This was a serious loss to the Army of the Tennessee, which was also short by two other divisions that were on their veteran furlough, and were under orders to rendezvous at Cairo, before embarking for Clifton, on the Tennessee River. On the 10th of April, 1864, the headquarters of the three Armies of the Cumberland, Tennessee, and Ohio, were at Chattanooga, Huntsville, and Knoxville, and the tables on page 16, et seq., give their exact condition ar prepared to assume the offensive as possible. I only ask as much time as you think proper, to enable me to get up McPherson's two divisions from Cairo. Their furloughs will expire about this time, and some of them should now be in motion for Clifton, whence they will march to Decatur, to join General Dodge. McPherson is ordered to assemble the Fifteenth Corps near Larkin's, and to get the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Corps (Dodge and Blair) at Decatur at the earliest possible moment. From
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 25 (search)
ed States Forces under Command of Major-General W. T. Sherman, United States Army, during his Campaigns in 1863-64-65. route.number of miles. Fourth Corps.Fourteenth Corps.Fifteenth Corps.Sixteenth Corps.Sixteenth Corps (Left Wing).Seventeenth Corps.Twentieth Corps. From Vicksburg to Meridian, and back   330 335  From Memphis to Chattanooga  330     From Chattanooga to Knoxville, and back110 230     From Chattanooga to Huntsville (Paint Rock), Langston, etc., and back  240     From Clifton to Rome     261  From Chattanooga to Atlanta (average distance traversed in manoeuvring) 178178 17889178 Pursuit of Hood, and back to Atlanta 270270  270270 From Atlanta to Savannah 283285  290287 From Savannah to Goldsboroa 425423  478420 From Goldsboroa to Washington, D. C. 430333  353370 Total distance in miles1101,5862,2893301782,0761,525 Compiled from campaign maps at headquarters Military Division of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri. W