. Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea ... oaccount. Buell on the general, after repeated solicitations that hemight be permitted to abandon Nashville, cross Ten-nessee, and join his forces to those of Grant with aview to counteract the Confederate concentration atCorinth, had at last obtained Hallecks consent. TheArmy of the Ohio, which numbered some forty thou-sand men, was therefore already on its march, and bythe 20th of March it had reached Columbia. Theroads were bad and the weather stormy in the ex-treme ; but it was not unreaso
. Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea ... oaccount. Buell on the general, after repeated solicitations that hemight be permitted to abandon Nashville, cross Ten-nessee, and join his forces to those of Grant with aview to counteract the Confederate concentration atCorinth, had at last obtained Hallecks consent. TheArmy of the Ohio, which numbered some forty thou-sand men, was therefore already on its march, and bythe 20th of March it had reached Columbia. Theroads were bad and the weather stormy in the ex-treme ; but it was not unreasonable to conclude that Buell would be able to accom-plish the distance in this large increase ofstrength arrive before the com-mencement of hostilities. Grantcould have but small reason forany misgivings as to the issueof the contest. Let us now glance at the po-sition of the Confederates andconsider their plans and theirprospects. When the first line of the Confederatedefence had been swept away by the capture of FortDoneison, Johnston retired first of all to Murfreesboro;. GEN. P. G. T. BEAUREGARD.
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