. Trials and triumphs : the record of the Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry . ainty as to the objectivepoint of the can?paign. On December 26, 1864, in Special Field Order No. 143, GeneralSherman jnced that Savannah would be held as a miUtary post, and gave orders for the government of the city. GeneralGeary, of the Second Division, Twentieth Corps, was appointedGovernor and assumed command. Colonel Poe, of General Sher-mans staff, organized defences, and Generals Easton and Beckwithdepots of suppUes of quartermaster and commissary stores. Theright wing, viz., the Fifteenth and Seventeenth c
. Trials and triumphs : the record of the Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry . ainty as to the objectivepoint of the can?paign. On December 26, 1864, in Special Field Order No. 143, GeneralSherman jnced that Savannah would be held as a miUtary post, and gave orders for the government of the city. GeneralGeary, of the Second Division, Twentieth Corps, was appointedGovernor and assumed command. Colonel Poe, of General Sher-mans staff, organized defences, and Generals Easton and Beckwithdepots of suppUes of quartermaster and commissary stores. Theright wing, viz., the Fifteenth and Seventeenth corps (except GeneralCorses division) were sent by transport to Beaufort, South Carolina,and to the head of Broad River, reUeving troops of General Foster(among them the Twenty-fifth Ohio, with which the Fifty-Fifth Ohiohad once been brigaded) that had been threatening the Charlestonand Savannah Railroad, and were gradually massed in the neighbor-hood of Pocotaligo, twenty-five miles inland from Beaufort. Ad-miral Dahlgren supphed steamers for the transfer, and his sailors186. Charles P. Wickham LlEUTFNANT-COLONEL, FiFTY-FlFTH OhIO\OLUNTEKR INFANTRY
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