. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . neers and pioneersand plenty of men to help him, in three days repaired the burnt bridge, over1000 feet long, near Kings house. Hazen, ready at the bridge, then marchedover and took Fort McAllister by assault, % which Sherman and I witnessedfrom the rice mill, some miles away on the other bank of the Ogeechee. Nowwe connected with the navy, and our supplies flowed in abundantly. Slocumsoon put a force beyond the Savannah. Hardee, fearing to be penned up,abandoned his works and fle
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . neers and pioneersand plenty of men to help him, in three days repaired the burnt bridge, over1000 feet long, near Kings house. Hazen, ready at the bridge, then marchedover and took Fort McAllister by assault, % which Sherman and I witnessedfrom the rice mill, some miles away on the other bank of the Ogeechee. Nowwe connected with the navy, and our supplies flowed in abundantly. Slocumsoon put a force beyond the Savannah. Hardee, fearing to be penned up,abandoned his works and fled during the night before Slocum had seized hislast road to the east. On December 23d the campaign culminated as Shermanentered Savannah. He sent the following dispatch to President Lincoln,which he received Christinas Eve: I beg to present to you, as a Christmasgift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plentyof ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. 3> There seem to have been but 230 men in the work. Hazens loss was 24 killedand 110 wounded.— P^pf >C« SHERMANS AMI LEAVING ATLANTA. A SKETCH MADE AT THE TIME. THE GEOEGIA MILITIA DURING SHERMANS MARCH TO THE SEAJ BY GUSTAVUS W. SMITH, MAJOE-GENEEAL, C. S. A. ON the 12th of October, IS64, I was orderedto assemble the State forces of Georgia atLovejoys Station, to support the small body of Con-federate cavalry observing the Federal garrisonof Atlanta, and, by threatening the latter, drawthe attention of General Sherman to that place,whilst his army was in pursuit of Hood, who wasmoving on the Federal line of communications. At Lovejoys Station we were joined by twosmall regiments of Georgia State line troops that-had previously served with the Confederate army,and by several detachments of home guards andwork-shop troops, ordered to report to me by Gen-eral Howell Cobb, commanding in Georgia. On the loth of November, when General Sher-mans army started fr
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