History of the United States . e surrender treated to Tupelo in Mississippi. When the gt^o^TrU is^isel ^fiiSnews of this irreparable Confederate disaster is^i-reached Richmond, Lee had been made commander-in-chief of allthe Confederate forces, and Johnston was restored by him to thecommand of the remnant of the southern army. ^ Before taking a clergymans orders, Polk was graduated at West Point;and in 1857 he founded the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee. 312 LINCOLN ADMINISTRATION; CAMPAIGNS OF 1864 Hoods advance into Tennessee had left Sherman with-out opposition in Georgia, exce
History of the United States . e surrender treated to Tupelo in Mississippi. When the gt^o^TrU is^isel ^fiiSnews of this irreparable Confederate disaster is^i-reached Richmond, Lee had been made commander-in-chief of allthe Confederate forces, and Johnston was restored by him to thecommand of the remnant of the southern army. ^ Before taking a clergymans orders, Polk was graduated at West Point;and in 1857 he founded the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee. 312 LINCOLN ADMINISTRATION; CAMPAIGNS OF 1864 Hoods advance into Tennessee had left Sherman with-out opposition in Georgia, except for a small force of cavalrySherman imdcr General Joseph Wheeler and some Georgia continues ... , ii- march to militia. Sherman now determmed to lead his army1864 * from Atlanta to the sea. After destroying the greater portion of Atlanta, he began an almost unimpededmarch to Savannah. He reached this city on Sep-tember 21, and there pre-pared to take up the march, )~^ jfinished in the following year,through the Shermans march, Atlanta to raleigh 230. Naval Operations.—In August, 1864, Admiral Farragutrepeated the tactics which had been so successful at New OrleansFarragut at in 1862. Hc ran past the forts of Mobile harbor__and1864 ^ ^^ defeated a small Confederate fleet. He wasriot, how-ever, as in the case of New Orleans, able to capture the city. Southern officers who resigned their commands of Federalbattleships prior to the breaking out ofthe war first turned overthe ships to the Federal government. Consequently, the SouthernStates went into the conflict without a navy. Nevertheless, theConfederate government set to work to fit out such vessels as itcould, and to make arrangements in foreign countries for the NAVAL OPERATIONS 313 construction of others. The most famous of these Confederatecommanders was Captain (later Rear-Admiral) Ra- semmes andphael Semmes, who first commanded the Sumter, con- erlte^s°telm-structed in the South; and later the Alabama, bu
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