History of the United States . e Virginia cadets) in The Battle of New Market. EarUer de-scriptions may be found in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. IV. CHAPTER XXXII Administration of Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865; The WarOF Secession—Campaigns of 1865—End of the War 231. Shermans Advance, 1865.—On February 7, Shermanbegan the second part of his march to the sea, from Savannah toCharleston, during which he inflicted upon South Carolina wide-spread destruction of property. Columbia was laid in ashes, and,on February 17, Charleston was evacuated bythe Confederates. Johnston had now repla
History of the United States . e Virginia cadets) in The Battle of New Market. EarUer de-scriptions may be found in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. IV. CHAPTER XXXII Administration of Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865; The WarOF Secession—Campaigns of 1865—End of the War 231. Shermans Advance, 1865.—On February 7, Shermanbegan the second part of his march to the sea, from Savannah toCharleston, during which he inflicted upon South Carolina wide-spread destruction of property. Columbia was laid in ashes, and,on February 17, Charleston was evacuated bythe Confederates. Johnston had now replaced Hood in com-mand of the forces gathered to oppose Sher-man in his march northward from in the spring several days fightingoccurred in the neighborhood of Battle of ^ Bentonville; Bentonville, N. C, where Sher- advance of Sc h ofleld mans progress was temporarily and Coxchecked. Johnston, however, was finallycompelled to retreat, and less than 200 miles^^Ir^ved separated the armies of Sherman in North. idy orchestra, Baltimore; lec-turer on English literatureat Johns Hopkins Univer-sity; adapted several his-torical works for theyoung; noted for the mel-ody SIDNEY LANIER Born Macon, Ga., February 3, 1842Oglethorpe College; st aL^ytmembe^peabody Carolina aud Grant in Virginia. In addition,a Federal army from the west under GeneralSchofield occupied Wilmington, while stillanother force under General Cox was march- poems^on naTur^^Diel iHg from Ncw Bcme to mcct Sherman at North Carolina, 1881. GoldsborO. 232. Lee Appointed Confederate Commander=in=chief.—The situation of the Confederacy was now desperate. The plan ofLee, who in February had been made commander-in-chief of allthe Confederate forces, was to withdraw his army from theneighborhood of Petersburg and Richmond before it was cut off316 I CLOSE OF THE WAR 317 by the overwhelming force of Grant. This he had intended doing earher in the winter, but, because of the scarcity of for-age, the enfeebled
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