United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . and knowing that no Confederate force could with-stand him in front, he cut his communications with the North, abandonedhis base of supplies, and struck out boldly for the sea-coast, more thantwo hundred and fifty miles away. As had been foreseen, the Confed-erates could offer no successful resistance. The Union army swept onthrough Macon and Milledgeville; reached the Ogeechee and crossed msafety^ captured Gibson and Waynesborough; and on the 10
United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . and knowing that no Confederate force could with-stand him in front, he cut his communications with the North, abandonedhis base of supplies, and struck out boldly for the sea-coast, more thantwo hundred and fifty miles away. As had been foreseen, the Confed-erates could offer no successful resistance. The Union army swept onthrough Macon and Milledgeville; reached the Ogeechee and crossed msafety^ captured Gibson and Waynesborough; and on the 10th of De-cember arrived in the vicinity of Savannah. On the 13th Fort McAllister,below the city, was carried by storm by the division of General the night of the 20th General Hardee, the Confederate commandant,escaped from Savannah with fifteen thousand men and retreated toCharleston. On the following morning the national advance entered,and on the 22d General Sherman made his headquarters in the city. Onhis march from Atlanta he had lost only five hundred and sixty-seven month of January, 18G5, was spent by the Union army at. 528 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. Savannah. On the 1st of February General Sherman, having garri-soned the city, began his march against Columbia, the capital of SouthCarolina. To the Confederates the further progress of the invasionthrough the swamps and morasses of the State had seemed impossible. Now that the veteranlegions were againin motion, alarmand terror pervadedthe country. Gov-ernor Magarth hada 1 re a d y summonedto the field everywhite man in theState between theages of sixteen andsixty; but the requi-sition was compar-atively , theConfederates formeda line of defencealong the Salkhatch-ie and prepared todispute Sherma n sm arch was all in passages of theriver were forced,and on the 11th of the month the Confederate lines of communica-tion between Charleston and Augusta were cut o
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