. Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea ... es as our objective point—he was greatly surprised to find that a gunboathad been despatched down the coast to meet himthere. I Wont do Anything of the Kind. The captain of this gunboat had succeeded in iascending Ossabaw Sound and the Ogeechee River, ,which lies just back of Savannah, and made instant tcommunication with the general. An important iofficial document which had been brought down in ithis way was handed to General Sherman in my,presence. When he received it he got excited and ]seemed vexed
. Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea ... es as our objective point—he was greatly surprised to find that a gunboathad been despatched down the coast to meet himthere. I Wont do Anything of the Kind. The captain of this gunboat had succeeded in iascending Ossabaw Sound and the Ogeechee River, ,which lies just back of Savannah, and made instant tcommunication with the general. An important iofficial document which had been brought down in ithis way was handed to General Sherman in my,presence. When he received it he got excited and ]seemed vexed about something. I noticed his color i|rising and a look of irritation in his eye, as well asthe nervous motion of the left arm which character-ized him when anything annoyed him. It seemed,for instance, as if he was pushing something awayfrom him. Come here, Dayton, said he; and we went intothe inner room of the building where he made hisheadquarters. As soon as we got inside I could seethat he was greatly opposed to the suggestions thathad apparently been contained in the
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