. Sherman and his campaigns: a military biography . gia Central line was broken up fromLithonia to Yellow River, a distaijipe of fifteen miles, for seven-teen miles between Social Circle and Madison, and at severalpoints between the last-named town and the Oconee ; theAtlanta and Macon Hne at various places above Lovejoys,and the road from Macon to the east between that city andGordon. Sherman himseK had thus far accompanied the FourteenthCorps. He now ordered Howard to move eastward from Gor-don, destroying the railway line leading to Millen as far asTennille Station, and Slocum to march by t
. Sherman and his campaigns: a military biography . gia Central line was broken up fromLithonia to Yellow River, a distaijipe of fifteen miles, for seven-teen miles between Social Circle and Madison, and at severalpoints between the last-named town and the Oconee ; theAtlanta and Macon Hne at various places above Lovejoys,and the road from Macon to the east between that city andGordon. Sherman himseK had thus far accompanied the FourteenthCorps. He now ordered Howard to move eastward from Gor-don, destroying the railway line leading to Millen as far asTennille Station, and Slocum to march by two roads on San-dersville, four miles north of Tennille; while Kilpatrick shouldmove from Gordon to Milledgeville, thence rapidly towards theeast, break up the railway between Millen and Augusta, andthen turn upon Millen and rescue the Union prisoners thereconfined under torture. >t3BLlC LIBRARY ASTOft, LEND)< ANDJ* r^M FOUNDATIONS^ fW/tiirfiJ by G«ii. O.^NI Poe _EiH/nne/r fur S/irmuin and Jiis Omi/JiUfi^ - *ArnW Corps ^- Mario. THE COLORS POINT TO THE SOUTH. 273 CHAPTEE XXI. THE LOST AEMT. DuKiNG tliis march the commander-in-chief made his head-quarters with the Twentieth Corps. On the 24th of November, the right wing marched fromGordon in two cokimns, Osterhaus fifteenth corps by wayof Irwinton to Balls Ferry, and Blairs seventeenth corpsalong the railway, with instructions to o»oss the Oconee atJacksons Ferry, two and a haK miles north of the General Giles A. Smith, who had preceded his columnwith the First Alabama Cavalry, drove quite a force of theenemy from two stockades and across the bridge, and foundthat Jacksons Ferry was an old abandoned route through theswamp, completely impracticable. General Howard thereforedirected Blairs corps to move to Balls Ferry, where the twoheads of column arrived about the same time on the 25th detachment of the First Alabama had the day before recon-noitred the ferry, finding a small force of t
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