. . n-ity of Palmetto, at a safedistance in the heart ofGeorgia, to the southwest,whither it had marched af-ter the prize of the longstruggle had been surren-dered to Sherman. Eachcommander was busily en-gaged in the endeavor tosolve the problem that waspresented to li i m . Sher-mans e s upon theseacoast: Hoods uponishville and waited for a timein the hope of learningHoods intentions, and therash Confederate leader didnot long keep him guess-ing. About the first of Oc-tober Hood put his army inmotion to the northward.
. . n-ity of Palmetto, at a safedistance in the heart ofGeorgia, to the southwest,whither it had marched af-ter the prize of the longstruggle had been surren-dered to Sherman. Eachcommander was busily en-gaged in the endeavor tosolve the problem that waspresented to li i m . Sher-mans e s upon theseacoast: Hoods uponishville and waited for a timein the hope of learningHoods intentions, and therash Confederate leader didnot long keep him guess-ing. About the first of Oc-tober Hood put his army inmotion to the marched rapidly, and, al-most before Sherman was aware of the movement, had planted it-self at Marietta and Big Shanty. Sherman at once issued the or-ders which he had prepared for such a contingency, and the gamethat the two great captains played during the weeks and monthsnext ensuing has few parallels in the history of wars. Thestory is familiar to all and need only be told here in the briefestpossible manner, to prepare the way for the march to the sea,. JOHN W. PICK P< iRAL, COMPANY A, mlaughlins squadron. 900 final isolation ok THE SQUADRON. [October, It should be said that near the end of September New-tons division of the Fourth corps, to which the Sixty-fourth andSixty-fifth Ohio belonged, had been hurried by rail to Chatta-nooga and thence to Bridgeport, on the Tennessee river, by reasonof the irruption of General Forrest, with a large force of Confed-erate cavalry, upon Shermans railroad lines of supply in Ten-nessee and northern Alabama. The Sixth battery soon isolation of the Squadron from the other members of theSherman Brigade was final. They were never together againuntil the survivors met around the campfires at the reunions ofthe brigade in after years. The fortunes of war separated themmore and more widely until, when their flags were finally furled,they were about as far apart as it was possible for them to get,within the confines of the
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