Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea .. . ow any intermission of the work. The expedition upthe Tennessee was hurried forward. An acquisitionwas found in Sherman, who, in compliance with ordersfrom Halleck, reported toSmith. It was not many daysuntil seventy transports, carry-ing over thirty thousand troops,were ready to move to thepoint agreed upon. As theboats steamed up to Savannah,where the depot of supplieswas established, bands playingand banners flying, it was per-haps the most splendid pageantseen since the commencement of the of
Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea .. . ow any intermission of the work. The expedition upthe Tennessee was hurried forward. An acquisitionwas found in Sherman, who, in compliance with ordersfrom Halleck, reported toSmith. It was not many daysuntil seventy transports, carry-ing over thirty thousand troops,were ready to move to thepoint agreed upon. As theboats steamed up to Savannah,where the depot of supplieswas established, bands playingand banners flying, it was per-haps the most splendid pageantseen since the commencement of the of March the greater portion of the army wasdebarked at Savannah in perfect safety. General Lewis Wallace, with his division, disem-barked on the west bank of the river at CrumpsLandino-, about four miles above Savannah, and tookpost on the road to Purdy. His instructions were todestroy the railroad bridge in the immediate neighbor-hood of that village. This was a hazardous under-taking, for the Confederates, as was afterward learned,[were lying close at hand; but it was successfully ac-. LEW. WALLACE. On the 204 GENERAL SHEKMAN. complished, and that, too, under the inconvenienceand discomfort of a series of heavy thunderstorms. A Confederate train approached while the bridge ?was burning, and narrowly escaped capture by re-versing the engine. Sherman was ordered by Smithto take his own division and the two gunboats Tylerand Lexington, to proceed farther up the river, andto strike the Memphis and Charleston railroad. Shermans Coininancl in Peril. Sherman went up as far as Tylers Landing, at themouth of Yellow Creek, just within the borders ofMississippi, but the roads were so flooded by theheavy rains that he found it impossible to reach therailroad. Had the enemy known his opportunity,Shermans division might have been cut to pieces; jfor it was with the utmost difficulty, and not until \many men and horses had perished in the swollen ?streams, that he got back to his bo
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