. A brief history of the United States . im-ple. The end of the war was clearly at hand. Sherman wasto move north from Savannah against Johnston, and then join * This battle ended an expedition fitted out by General Gilmore, at Hilton Head, S. C, to recover Florida. After some success his troops, under General Seymour,advanced to Olustee, where (February 20) they met a disastrous defeat and wereforced to relinquish much they had gained. The men were afterwards taken to Vir-ginia, to engage in more important work. 18650 THE CIVIL WAR. 271 Graut in the final attack upon Lee. Sheridan, with ten t
. A brief history of the United States . im-ple. The end of the war was clearly at hand. Sherman wasto move north from Savannah against Johnston, and then join * This battle ended an expedition fitted out by General Gilmore, at Hilton Head, S. C, to recover Florida. After some success his troops, under General Seymour,advanced to Olustee, where (February 20) they met a disastrous defeat and wereforced to relinquish much they had gained. The men were afterwards taken to Vir-ginia, to engage in more important work. 18650 THE CIVIL WAR. 271 Graut in the final attack upon Lee. Sheridan, with ten thou-sand troopers, had swept down fiom the Shenandoah, cut theraihoads north of Eichmond, and taken his place in the Unionlines before Petersburg. Wilson, with thu-teen thousandhorsemen, rode at large through Alabama and Georgia, andat Macon held a line of retreat from Virginia westward,Stoneman, with five thousand cavalry from Tennessee,poured through the jjasses of the Alleghanies and waited inNorth Carolina for the issue in SHERIIANs JLAJICH. Shermans March through the Carolinas.—In the meantime Sherman had given his troops only a months restin Savannah. Early in February, they were put in motionnorthward. There was no waiting for roads to dry nor forbridges to be built, but the troops swept on like a tornado. 272 EPOCH V. [1865. Elvers were waded, and one battle was fought while the waterwas up to the shoulders of the men. The army, sixty thousandstrong, moved in four columns, with a front of more than fiftymiles. Cavahy and foragers swarmed on the flanks. Beforethem was terror; behind them were ashes. Columbia* was captured (February 17), and Charleston,!thus threatened in the rear, was evacuated the next day. Inthis emergency, Jolinston was again called to the command ofthe Confederate forces. He gathered their scattered armiesand vigorously opposed Shermans advance. After fierceengagements at Avcrysboro and Betitonville (March 15, 18),he was diiven back, and
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