. Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea ... n refittingthe army and in making the proper disposition ofcaptured property and other local matters ; but by the15th of January I was all ready to resume the to this, General Howard, commanding theright wing, was ordered to em-bark his command at Thunder-bolt, transport It to Beaufort,South Carolina, and thence bythe 15th of January make alodgment on the Charlestonrailroad at or near was accomplished punc-tually, at little cost, by the Sev-enteenth corps, Major-GeneralB
. Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea ... n refittingthe army and in making the proper disposition ofcaptured property and other local matters ; but by the15th of January I was all ready to resume the to this, General Howard, commanding theright wing, was ordered to em-bark his command at Thunder-bolt, transport It to Beaufort,South Carolina, and thence bythe 15th of January make alodgment on the Charlestonrailroad at or near was accomplished punc-tually, at little cost, by the Sev-enteenth corps, Major-GeneralBlair, and a depot for supplieswas established near the mouth of Pocotaligo Creek,with easy water-communication back to Hilton Head. On the 18th of January I transferred the forts andcity of Savannah to Major-General Foster, command-ing the Department of the South, imparted to him myplans of operation, and Instructed him how to followmy movements inland by occupying in succession thecity of Charleston and such other points along the sea-coast as would be of any military value to us. The. A. TERRY. 452 GENERAL SHERMAN. combined naval and land forces under Admiral Porterand General Terry had, on the 15th of January, cap-tured Fort Fisher and the rebel forts at the mouth ofCape Fear River, giving me an additional point of se-curity on the seacoast. But I had already resolved inmy own mind, and had so advised General Grant, thatI would undertake at one stride to make Goldsboro,and open communication with the sea by the New-bern railroad, and had ordered Colonel W. W. Wright,superintendent of military railroads, to proceed inadvance to Newbern, and to be prepared to extendthe railroad out from Newbern to Goldsboro by the15 th of March. ** Forward, March! On the 19th of January all preparations \verecomplete, and the orders of march w^ere the 25th a demonstration was made against theCombahee ferry and railroad-bridge across the Sal-kahatchie, merely to amuse the en
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