. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . and of an efficient officer who will see thatthe work is not slighted. Unless closely watched,soldiers will content themselves with simply bend-ing the rails around trees. This should never bepermitted. A rail which is simply bent can easilyhe restored to its original shape. No rail should be regarded as properly treated till it has assumedthe shape of a doughnut; it must not only be bentbut twisted. To do the twisting Poes railroadhooks are necessary, for it has been found that t
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . and of an efficient officer who will see thatthe work is not slighted. Unless closely watched,soldiers will content themselves with simply bend-ing the rails around trees. This should never bepermitted. A rail which is simply bent can easilyhe restored to its original shape. No rail should be regarded as properly treated till it has assumedthe shape of a doughnut; it must not only be bentbut twisted. To do the twisting Poes railroadhooks are necessary, for it has been found that thesoldiers will not seize the hot iron , however, is the only thing looking toward thedestruction of property which I ever knew a manin Shermans army to decline doing. With Poeshooks a double twist can be given to a rail, whichprecludes all hope of restoring it to its formershape except by re-rolling.— H. W. S. SHERMANS MARCH FROM SAVANNAH TO BENTONl^ILLE. 687 From Columbia the army moved toward Fayetteville — the left wing cross- While the rear of the Twentiethwas swept away by flood-wood. SHERMANS SOLDIERS GUARDING THE PALMETTO MONUMENT,COLUMBIA. FROM A SKETCH MADE AT THE TIME. ing the Catawba River at Rocky was crossing, our pontoon-bridgebrought down the river, leavingthe Fourteenth Corps on the southside. This caused a delay of threedays, and gave rise to some em-phatic instructions from Shermanto the commander of the left wing— which instructions resulted inour damming the flood-wood tosome extent, but not in materiallyexpediting the march. On the 3d of March we arrivedat Cheraw, where we found alarge supply of stores sent fromCharleston for the stores was a largequantity of very old wine of thebest quality, which had been kept in the cellars of Charleston many years,with no thought on the part of the owners that in its old age it would bedrunk from tin cups by Yankee soldiers. Fortunately for the whole army thewine was
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