. Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea ... erman received his first pro-motion, being made the first lieutenant of CompanyG. He left Fort Pierce and joined his new commandat St. Augustine. Shortly afterward he was placedin command of a detachment of twenty men at Pico-lata, on the St. Johns River. He remained thereonly a few months, having been ordered on dutywhich took him to Pensacola. Thence he was sentto Fort Morgan, Mobile Point. He was now quartermaster and commissary. Thefollowing June found him in Fort Moultrie, the regi-ment having been
. Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea ... erman received his first pro-motion, being made the first lieutenant of CompanyG. He left Fort Pierce and joined his new commandat St. Augustine. Shortly afterward he was placedin command of a detachment of twenty men at Pico-lata, on the St. Johns River. He remained thereonly a few months, having been ordered on dutywhich took him to Pensacola. Thence he was sentto Fort Morgan, Mobile Point. He was now quartermaster and commissary. Thefollowing June found him in Fort Moultrie, the regi-ment having been changed from the Gulf posts tothose on the Atlantic. We remained at Fort Moul-trie, says General Sherman, nearly five years, untilthe Mexican war scattered us for ever. Our lifethere was of strict garrison duty, with plenty of leis-ure for huntine and social entertainment. We soonformed many and most pleasant acquaintances in thecity of Charleston, and it soon happened that many ofthe families resided at Sullivans Island in the summerseason, where we could reciprocate the hospitalities. 30 GENERAL SHERMAN. extended to us In the winter. This life was inter-rupted by a brief leave of absence in 1843, which hespent in Ohio and in visiting some of the principalSouthern cities. First March through Georg-ia. An order came from the War Department at Wash-ington in January, 1844, which, curiously enough, tookhim through the country over which he was in afteryears to sweep at the head of a conquering army onone of the most famous expeditions in all militaryhistory—the march to the sea. It was a detail toassist Colonel Churchill, the inspector-general of thearmy, in taking depositions in Upper Georgia andAlabama concerning certain losses by volunteers ii?Florida of horses and equipment by reason of thefailure of the United States to provide sufficient for-age, and for which Congress had made an appropria-tion. The order directed him to go to Marietta, whereChurchill was conducting the
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