Official programme and guide book, reunion, . Wheeler shelled the camp of the Fourteenth Corps. He then crossedthe Savannah River and covered Hardees communication to Har-deeville. There was opposition to the marcli of Shermans forces atthe Central Railroad bridges over the Canoochee and Ogeechee, andat the Ohoopee common bridge. At the last point, there Avas a spir-ited but futile resistance by a small body of troops under ColonelFiser, and also at the Ogeechee Bridge, by a larger force; but thetroops were recalled within the Confederate lines at Savannah. All the doubts, some of them fantast
Official programme and guide book, reunion, . Wheeler shelled the camp of the Fourteenth Corps. He then crossedthe Savannah River and covered Hardees communication to Har-deeville. There was opposition to the marcli of Shermans forces atthe Central Railroad bridges over the Canoochee and Ogeechee, andat the Ohoopee common bridge. At the last point, there Avas a spir-ited but futile resistance by a small body of troops under ColonelFiser, and also at the Ogeechee Bridge, by a larger force; but thetroops were recalled within the Confederate lines at Savannah. All the doubts, some of them fantastic, that had hitherto beenindulged as to the objective of General Sherman, Avhile his army wason the march, were now dispelled. The investment of Savannahbegan with the arrival of his troops on the lOtli of December, againstthe western exposure of the city. To meet this a series of strongearthworks intercommunicated in some instances by infantry trencheshad been located at suitable points behind the rice fields andswamps, which beginning at
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