. Young folk's history of the war for the union . k possession. Sherman wrote to the President: Ibeg to present yon as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah,with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammuni-tion; also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. Thismessage reached the President on Christmas eve, and beingpublished in the newspapers the next morning, carried joythroughout the country. The great march of three hundred miles had occupiedtwenty-seven days. An immense amount of damage had beendone to the enemy, estimated by General Sherman at a hundredmillion dollars, incl
. Young folk's history of the war for the union . k possession. Sherman wrote to the President: Ibeg to present yon as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah,with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammuni-tion; also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. Thismessage reached the President on Christmas eve, and beingpublished in the newspapers the next morning, carried joythroughout the country. The great march of three hundred miles had occupiedtwenty-seven days. An immense amount of damage had beendone to the enemy, estimated by General Sherman at a hundredmillion dollars, including the value of the railroads, of whichthree hundred and twenty miles had been destroyed. Thecountry through which the army had passed had been strippedof its food for thirty miles each side of a line between Atlantaand Savannah, and more than ten thousand horses and muleshad been carried away. The entire loss of the Union army hadbeen only seven hundred and sixty-four, while nearly twice asmany prisoners had been taken from the CHAPTER TO GOLDSBORO. Secretary Stanton in Savannah.—Politics.—Sherman Disgusted.—Expedition againstFoKT Fisher.—Butlers Powder-Boat.—Heavy Bombardment.—General Terry suc-ceeds Butler.—Bragg again.—Good-by, Wilmington !—Capture of Fort Fisher.—General Schofield.—Wilmington Taken.—Goldsboro Entered.—Shermans Marchfrom Savannah.—Wheeler and Hampton.—Floods.—The Salkehatchie.—Horrorsof War.—South Carolina Punished.—Cotton Burning.—Columbia Surrendered —Burning of the City.—Confederate Money.—Hardee Evacuates Charleston. -TheCity in Flames.—Desolation.—Sumter and the Flag.—Jus look at his Hoss.—Cheraw.—Johnston again in Command.—Hampton and —A^ of Bentonsville.—Goldsboro.—Sherman Visits Grant.—Presi-dent Lincoln.—Sherman Returns to Goldsboro. GENERAL SHERMAN had scarcely settled himself in hisquarters in Savannah befo
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