Life of Wm Tecumseh Sherman .. . hief engineer of the army, said in hisreport of the march : It involved an immense amount of bridging of everykind known in active campaigning, and some four hundredmiles of corduroying. The latter was a very simple affair,where there were plenty offence rails, but, in their absence,involved the severest labor. It was found that a fence oneach side of the road furnished enough rails for corduroy-ing it so as to make it passable. I estimate the amount ofcorduroying at fully one hundred miles for each army is a moderate estimate, and would make for the
Life of Wm Tecumseh Sherman .. . hief engineer of the army, said in hisreport of the march : It involved an immense amount of bridging of everykind known in active campaigning, and some four hundredmiles of corduroying. The latter was a very simple affair,where there were plenty offence rails, but, in their absence,involved the severest labor. It was found that a fence oneach side of the road furnished enough rails for corduroy-ing it so as to make it passable. I estimate the amount ofcorduroying at fully one hundred miles for each army is a moderate estimate, and would make for the fourcorps some four hundred miles of corduroying. The FEATS OF 2 cavalry did very little of this kind of work, as their trains moved with the infantry columns. The right wing built fifteen pontoon bridges, having an aggregate length of 3,720 feet; the left wing built about 4,000 feet, being a total of one and one-half miles. There were no measurements of the amount of trestle bridge built, but it was not so great. goH CHAPTER XXVII. THE END OF THE WAR. Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman at City Point—Surrender of Lee—Murder of Lincoln—Negotiations with Johnston—StantonsDisapproval—An Outcry Against Sherman—The Grand Review—Shermans Refusal to Shake Hands with Stanton—FarewellAddress to the Army. Soon after his arrival at Goldsboro, Sherman received along letter from Grant warmly congratulating him on thesuccessful completion of what was his third campaign sinceleaving the Tennessee River, less than a year before. Grant cordially gave him a brief but comprehensive ac-count of the situation of the Army of the Potomac and ofLees Army, and of his own plans for the immediate already pointed Appomattox as the place at or nearwhich he hoped to bring affairs to a crisis. Sherman de-cided thereupon to go up to City Point and have a personalinterview with Grant. He issued orders, leaving Schofieldin command and giving general directions for the operatio
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