. Trials and triumphs : the record of the Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry . aboutfive miles of road. The troops carried about forty rounds of ammu-nition per man, and 160 rounds per man was carried in the train. General Sherman was now in personal command of an army of60,000 veteran troops, fully equipped, enthusiastic, and in all respectsequal to the task proposed, which was to demonstrate to the worldthe force and strength of the Union, the abihty of its generals, andthe hollowness of the Confederacy. On November 14 the work ofdestroying the mills, warehouses, and depots in Atlanta was c
. Trials and triumphs : the record of the Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry . aboutfive miles of road. The troops carried about forty rounds of ammu-nition per man, and 160 rounds per man was carried in the train. General Sherman was now in personal command of an army of60,000 veteran troops, fully equipped, enthusiastic, and in all respectsequal to the task proposed, which was to demonstrate to the worldthe force and strength of the Union, the abihty of its generals, andthe hollowness of the Confederacy. On November 14 the work ofdestroying the mills, warehouses, and depots in Atlanta was com-pleted by a corps of engineers under Colonel Poe. The walls andsupports of the buildings were knocked down by an ingeniousbattering ram constructed of bars of railroad iron swung in chainsfrom a tripod, and fire completed the destruction. Great care wastaken to burn only buildings of public importance, and very fewif any dwellings were destroyed. Early in the morning of Tuesday, November 15, the long linesof the Twentieth Corps began to pour out on the road leading east,. Benjamin C. Taber Quartermaster, Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry
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