. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . sident an assignment to an army anda department. I was therefore especially anxious to know fully his plans,and plainly told him so. While the rubbing went on he explained in detail 663 664 SHERMANS ADVANCE FROM ATLANTA. what he proposed and pointed significantly to Goldsboro, North Carolina, onhis map, sajing, I hope to get there. On November 15th we set forth ingood earnest. Slocum, Sherman accompanying him, went by the AugnstaRailroad, and passed on through Milledgeville. I fol
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . sident an assignment to an army anda department. I was therefore especially anxious to know fully his plans,and plainly told him so. While the rubbing went on he explained in detail 663 664 SHERMANS ADVANCE FROM ATLANTA. what he proposed and pointed significantly to Goldsboro, North Carolina, onhis map, sajing, I hope to get there. On November 15th we set forth ingood earnest. Slocum, Sherman accompanying him, went by the AugnstaRailroad, and passed on through Milledgeville. I followed the Macon Rail-road, and for the first seven days had Kilpatrick with me. Notwithstanding our reduction of the impedimenta, our wagon trains werestill long, and always a source of anxiety. Pushing toward Macon, I found some resistance from General G. new levies. The crossing of theOcmulgee, with its steep and muddybanks, was hard enough for the protected them by a second demonstra-tion from the left bank against Smith crossed the river and .gave us bat- - tie at It -&*■ was an affair HOOK USED BT GENERAL SHERMANS ARMY FOR 0f Olie division, that Of ChaileS R. TWISTING AND DESTROYING RAILROAD IRON. _^ . _^ Woods,— using mainly Waleutts bri-gade. Smith was badly defeated, and during the melee our trains were hurriedoff to Gordon and parked there in safety. J Here, at Gordon, Sherman, fromMilledgeville, came across to me. Slocum had enjoyed a fine march, havinghad but little resistance. The stories of the mock Legislature at the Statecapital, of the luxurious supplies enjoyed all along, and of the constantfun and pranks of Shermans bummers, rather belonged to that routethan ours. Possiblywe had more of thethrongs of escapingslaves, from the babyin arms to the oldnegro hobbling pain-fully along the lineof march — negroesof all sizes, in all sortsof patched costumes,with carts and bro-ken-down horses andmules to match. We brought
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