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Title: Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea ..
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
Publisher: Boston, Mass., Providence, R.I., Gately & O'Gorman
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ut Waynesboro,where he ascertained that our prisoners had beenremoved from Millen, and therefore the purpose ofrescuing them, upon which we had set our hearts, was.;)an impossibility. But as Wheelers cavalry had hungfaround him, and as he had retired to Louisville tomeet our infantry, in pursuance of my instruction notito risk battle unless at great advantage, I ordered:him to leave his wa^-ons and all encumbrances with,the left wine, and, movinor in the direction of Aucrustaif Wheeler gave him the opportunity, to indulge himwith all the fighting he wanted. General Kilpatricksupported by Bairds division of infantry of the Four=;teenth corps, again moved in the direction of Waynea^boro, and, encountering Wheeler in the neighborhoodof Thomass Station, attacked him in position, drivinghim from three successive lines of barricades hand*somely through Waynesboro and across Brier Creek,the bridges over which he burned, and then, withBairds division, rejoined the left wing, which in the J ;,
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433 434 GENERAL SHERMAN. mean time had been marching by easy stages of ten \miles a day in the direction of Lumpkins Station and iJacksonboro. i The Seventeenth corps took up the destruction of ,the railroad at the Ogeechee near Station lo, and icontinued it to Millen, the enemy offering little or noopposition, although preparations had seemingly been imade at Millen. On the 3d of December the Seventeenth corps,which I accompanied, was at Millen ; the Fifteenth Icorps, General Howard, was south of the Ogeechee, ,opposite Station 7 (Scarboro); the Twentieth corps,General Slocum, on the Augusta railroad, about four 1miles north of Millen, near Buckhead Church ; and !the Fourteenth corps, General Jeff. C. Davis, in the jneighborhood of Lumpkins Station, on the Augusta jrailroad. ^ ; Aiming- for Savannah. \ All were ordered to march in the direction of ;Savannah, the Fifteenth corps to continue south of Ithe Ogeechee, the Seventeenth to destroy the railroad Ias far as Ogeechee Church; and

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