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not up to an extended foray into the Sequatchie Valley. Ever since Rosecrans had advanced into middle Tennessee start- ing with ...
wagon train was only six miles distant down in the valley, Wheeler proposed to take 1,500 men and destroy the enemy con- voy. In ...
early during the fight had been carried out. (Minty denied ever receiving the order and remained in camp during the contest.) Th ...
Sherman ’ s Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, seated on horseback at right, calmly oversees the 1864 siege of Atlanta in this ...
March to the Sea against Confederate General John Bell Hood. On September 1, when Sherman took the town of Jonesboro, 10 miles s ...
lems. The first was logistical. He was at the end of a long supply line stretching hundreds of miles north to Chattanooga and be ...
antly, “In my opinion I can hold this post. If you want it, come and take it.” Hood, after being bloodied at Allatoona, with- dr ...
than simply outsmarting Hood. He felt that from Atlanta he could march to the sea and rip out the heart of the Confeder- acy. Th ...
from European warfare in that “we are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people. And must make old and young, rich ...
him to “spare nothing.” This was part of Sherman’s overall policy of harsh measures to those who fought back. When the army enco ...
to set a an example for the other officers. Sherman described vividly the initial acts of destruction on the march. “The whole h ...
a feast, their meal was interrupted by the arrival of several escaped prisoners from the Confederate prison camp at Ander- sonvi ...
letter to Hardee demanding the city’s capit- ulation. In his exhortation Sherman inten- tionally mimicked Hood at Allatoona and ...
74 Cadets from Virginia Military Institute, led by 20-year-old Captain Benjamin A. Colonna, race past Bushong’s Farm to fill a g ...
After Union General Franz Sigel moved into the Shenandoah Valley in the spring of 1864, Confederate forces fell back to New Mark ...
In support of the drive on Richmond, Grant called for a move from western Vir- ginia into the Shenandoah Valley to divert attent ...
infantry, divided into two brigades, was led by Brig. Gen. Jeremiah Sullivan, while Sigel’s chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Julius Sta ...
advance. Despite continued evidence of the enemy’s weakness, Sigel lost any sense of urgency, preferring to maintain a rigid rou ...
up a jaunty tune as the cadets moved into place down Shirley’s Hill. Shipp, at 24, was scarcely older than the cadets he com- ma ...
into them.” An officer in the 34th Massa- chusetts had a similar recollection: “We waited until they were close enough, and then ...
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