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Title: The life and campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. U. S. Grant, from his boyhood to the surrender of Lee
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Headley, P. C. (Phineas Camp), 1819-1903
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Publisher: New York, The Derby and Miller publishing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ck were in and about Gordon. General Howard was then ordered to move eastward, destroying therailroad thoroughly in his progress as far as Tennille Station, oppositeSandersville, and General Slocum to move to Sandersville by two roads.General Kilpatrick was ordered to Milledgeville, and thence move rapidlyeastward, to break the railroad which leads from Millen to Augusta, thento turn upon Millen and rescue our prisoners of war supposed to be con-fined at that place. I accompanied the Twentieth Corps from Milledgevilleto Sandersville, approaching which place, on the 25th, we found thebridges across Buffalo Creek burned, which delayed us three hours. Thenext day we entered Sandersville, skirmishing with Wheelers cavalry,which offered little opposition to the advance of the Twentieth and Four-teenth Corps, entering the place almost at the same moment. General Slocum was then ordered to tear up and destroy the GeorgiaCentral Railroad, from Station No. 13 (Tennille) to Station No. 10, near
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MAJOR-GENERAL SHERMANS REPORT. 625 the crossing of Ogeechee; one of his corps substantially following the rail-road, the other by way of Louisville, in support of Kilpatricks cavalry.In person I shifted to the right wing, and accompanied the SeventeenthCorps, General Blair, on the south of the railroad, till abreast of StationNo. 9^ (Barton); General Howard, in person, with the Fifteenth Corps,keeping further to the right, and about one days march ahead, ready toturn against the flank of any enemy who should oppose our progress. At Barton I learned that Kilpatricks cavalry had reached the AugustaRailroad about Waynesborough, where he ascertained that our prisonershad been removed from Millen, and therefore the purpose of rescuing them,moon which we had set our hearts, was an impossibility. But as Wheelerscavalry had hung around him, and as he had retired to Louisville to meetour infantry, in pursuance of my instructions not to risk a battle unless atgreat advantage, I ordered him to l

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