Authors: Noah Andre Trudeau
“I don’t mean to hurt her”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
72–73.
“Oh, how I trust”: Lunt,
Woman’s Wartime Journal
, 17–20.
CHAPTER 10. “WHITES LOOK SOUR & SAD”
“We got up”: Roe, Papers, KNX.
“roads today”: Clark,
Downing’s Civil War,
230.
“On both sides”: Hedley,
Marching through Georgia,
310.
“blankets are so wet”: Brown,
Fourth Regiment,
340.
“source of anxiety”: Howard, “Sherman’s Advance,” 664.
“as soon as over”: Howard,
Autobiography
, 2:71.
“Great fires were kept”:
92nd Illinois Volunteers
, 175.
“The cavalry cross two by two”: Ibid., 176.
“The weather is wet”: Hoerner,
Chattanooga, Savannah and Alexandria
, 41.
“Colored people”: Ames, Diary, MHI.
“A wag in Company A”: Boyle,
Soldiers True,
258.
“our men ransacked”: Wheeler, Letters and Journal, ALL.
“It is the finest”: Trego, Diary, CHI.
“the town looked”:
New York Herald,
12/28/864.
“The men have obtained”: Fleharty,
Our Regiment,
111.
“Cotton stored”: Osborn,
Trials and Triumphs
, 177.
“The Calaboos[e]”: Kittinger, Diary, MHI.
“But it was of no use”: Chapman,
Civil War Diary
, 100.
“stripped of all”: Jones,
When Sherman Came
, 15.
“fine style”: Short, Diary, WHS.
“with handsomely aligned”: Byrne,
Uncommon Soldiers
, 258.
“We spent the whole forenoon”: Herron,
Reminiscences,
23.
“the roads were found”:
New York Herald,
12/22/1864.
“ahead in a heavy rain”: McAdams,
Every-day Soldier Life
, 117.
“You awake in the morning”: Parker, Papers, HL.
“the General explained”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
74.
“The enemy”: Hardee messages in OR 44:870.
“divide [his force]”: Ibid.
“After a careful survey”: Quoted in
Philadelphia Inquirer,
12/5/1864.
“country cannot support”: Ibid., 11/23/1864.
“would have turned”: Barber,
Army Memoirs,
179–80.
“Burned many cotton mills”: Parmater, Diary, OHS.
“the water-tank”: OR 44:270.
“several thousand”: Hoerner,
Chattanooga, Savannah and Alexandria
, 42.
“a first rate time”: Harper, Diary, MHI.
“tearing up”:
Paterson Daily Register,
1/3/1865.
“a considerable distance”: OR 44:283.
“Our Division started”: Quoted in Schmidt,
Civil War History
, 1036.
“thoroughly destroyed”: OR 44:270.
“The roads are rather”: McLean, Family Papers, NYL.
“loaded down”: Grunert,
History
, 126.
“There were old Pomps”: Wagoner, “From Wauhatchie,” 119.
“You Yankees did it”: Fleharty,
Our Regiment,
112.
“I don’t know”: Bradley,
Star Corps
, 187.
“Why ma’am”: Byrne,
Uncommon Soldiers
, 260.
“Like demons”: Lunt,
Woman’s Wartime Journal,
20–32.
“Troops have plenty”: Burkhalter, Diary, ALL.
“Plenty of corn”: Ege, Papers, WHS.
“There was sport”: Otto,
Civil War Memoirs
, WHS.
“Several…men wounded”: Ege, Papers, WHS.
“were accidentally shot”: Ladd, “From Atlanta to the Sea,” 7.
“accidentally wounded”: Payne,
Thirty-fourth Regiment,
164.
“Provost guards”: Emmons, Diaries, UIA.
“Negroes by the hundred”: Essington, Diary, ISL.
“the negroes”: Angle,
Three Years,
311.
“queer old cock”/“Confederates were a great deal”/“I have been three years”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman
, 750.
“Gen. Sherman sitting”: Ross, Diary, ALL.
“The country was sparsely settled”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:183.
“rapidly disappearing”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
75–76.
“beautiful town”: Hedley,
Marching through Georgia,
311.
“colors flying”: McMillan, Papers, WHS.
“any amount of fine looking”/“a pretty little village”/“it was reduced”: Christie, Family Papers, MHS.
“the point of it”: Harwell and Racine,
Fiery Trail
, 56.
“the men floundering”: Wright,
Sixth Iowa
, 361.
“We took the wrong road”: Brown,
Fourth Regiment,
341.
“every man”: Dunbar, Diary, BHS.
“Gen. Howard sat”: Jones,
When Sherman Came
, 20.
“divided amongst”: Gay, Diary, SHI.
“Roads very slippery”: Tomlinson,
“Dear Friends,”
172.
“a hard day’s travel”: Berkenes,
Private William Boddy,
152.
“General Kilpatrick”:
New York Herald,
12/28/1864.
“valuable information”: OR 44:369.
“learned that part”: Moore,
Kilpatrick and Our Cavalry,
178.
“ordered Wheeler”: OR 44:870.
CHAPTER 11. “UGLY WEATHER”
“push on toward”: OR 44:496.
“ugly weather”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
76.
“the plantation”:
New York Herald,
12/22/1864.
“We are told”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
78.
“The brigade band”: Owens,
Greene County
, 100.
“that she had heard”: Sawyer, Letters, WHS.
“the weather rainy”: OR 44:270.
“was thick”: Chapman,
Civil War Diary
, 101.
“the clayey roads”: Trowbridge, Papers, UMC.
“The roads were in a bad”: Cruikshank, “Civil War Letters.”
“The Yankees left us”: Massey, “Recollections,” UDC.
“The inhabitants seemed”: Boies,
Record,
104.
“While passing”: Fleharty,
Our Regiment,
113.
“We must go”: Halsey,
Yankee Private’s Civil War,
113–14.
“The animals”: Baker,
Soldier’s Experience
, 40.
“supposed [it] to be”: Platter, “Civil War Diary,” UGA.
“A colored gal”: Cryder and Stanley,
“War for the Union,”
458.
“It excited many a pun”: Sharland,
Knapsack Notes
, 17–18.
“muddy & very foggy”: Unknown Diarist, SHI.
“The roads were so”: Saunier,
History
, 353.
“nearly every man”: Grecian,
History,
61.
“Push on active”: Beauregard messages in OR 44:872–74.
“Let not this stirring”:
Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel,
11/20/1864.
“I think Sherman”: Miers,
Rebel War Clerk’s Diary,
450.
“We were free”: Barber,
Army Memoirs
, 180.
“The arsenal was guarded”:
National Tribune,
6/9/1887.
“After this work”: OR 44:390.
“given orders to search”:
Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel,
12/1/1864.
“numbering from”: Ibid.
“convinced the inhabitants”: OR 44:270–71.
“The shoes were given”: Hoerner,
Chattanooga, Savannah and Alexandria
, 42.
“Every house”: Noble, Papers, UMB.
“the reg’t passed”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.
“Every cotton shed”: Trowbridge, Papers, UMC.
“I believe”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“We would hear”: Jones,
When Sherman Came
, 29.
“factory was burnt”: Poe, Papers and Letters, LOC.
“a large cotton factory”: Ladd, “From Atlanta to the Sea,” 7.
“Plenty of forage”: Ege, Papers, WHS.
“The foragers brought in”: McAdams,
Every-day Soldier Life
, 117.
“We have marched”: Pendergast, Family Papers, MHS.
“Here the colored peoples”: Essington, Diary, ISL.
“dancing and bobbing”: Kellogg,
Army Life of an Illinois Soldier
, 28.
“formed into a ring”: Girardi and Cheairs,
Memoirs,
149.
“In moving to Milledgeville”: OR 44:501.
“The discharge”: Orders in OR 44:502–3.
“I don’t think”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
79.
“It has commenced to rain”: Bargus, Diary, MHI.
“awful for man”: McMillan, Papers, WHS.
“mud is deep”: Anderson,
Civil War Diary
, 177.
“the roads have become”: Clark,
Downing’s Civil War,
230.
“during the day”:
National Tribune
, 6/6/1901.
“outrages committed”: OR 44:505.
“Lots of rain”: Keyes, Diary, MHI.
“In the mud”: Scheel,
Rain, Mud & Swamps,
462.
“All quiet”: Engerud,
1864 Diary
, 48.
“This evening the cavalry”: Moses, “Civil War Diary.”
“a second demonstration”: Howard, “Sherman’s Advance from Atlanta,” 664.
“but not sacrifice”:
New York Herald,
12/22/1864.
“There was a rebel force”:
New York Times,
2/26/1876.
“They made a stubborn resistance”: Ward, Diary, IHS.
“Do you recollect”: Swedberg,
Three Years,
233.
“For God’s sake”: Kilpatrick telegraph incident in
New York Times,
12/28/1864;
New York Herald,
12/28/1864.
“Our fun was over”:
New York Times,
2/26/1876.
“It was quite a descent”:
National Tribune,
5/10/1883.
“Seeing that the [captured] guns”: OR 44:404.
“until the trains”: OR 44:498.
“Some of our troops”:
Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel,
11/30/1864.
CHAPTER 12. “BUT BLESS GOD, HE DIED FREE!”
“Burned Denham’s Factory”: OR 44:306.
“When we left”: Failing-Knight, Papers, MHS.
“were burning”: OR 44:320.
“roads were perfectly horrid”: Failing-Knight, Papers, MHS.
“very deep”: OR 44:271.
“The skies were heavy”: Harris,
On the Plantation
, 227–28.
“morning dawned dark”: OR 44:252.
“Men under difficulty”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“Ground very soft”: Trego, Diary, CHI.
“The roads were so bad”: Lathrop,
John Smethurst
, 60.
“Genl Slocum cussed”: Trego, Diary, CHI.
“yelled [until] their throats”: Duncan, Papers, NJH.
“looked like”: Michael, Diary, IHS.
“quite a ridiculous”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“Burnt 3 large”: Kittinger, Diary, MHI.
“a very shammy”:
New York Herald,
12/28/1864.
“You never saw”: Quoted in Walters,
Oconee River
, 298. 171
“passed through Eatonton”: Adams, Diary, n.p.
“At Eatonton”: Hurst,
Journal-History
, 156.
“the darkies there”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
78.
“I never saw”: McDonnell, “Reminiscences,” UDC.
“What is the matter”: Harris,
On the Plantation
, 227–28.
“soil here”: Gould and Kennedy,
Memoirs
, 296.
“The mud was ankle deep”: Pendergast, Family Papers, MHS.
“The difficulties”: Widney, Diary and Letters, KNP.
“Every body”: Ege, Papers, WHS.
“Dismal day”/“a very smart negro”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
80.
“Dar’s de man”: Ibid., 81–82.
“might…catch”: Howard,
Autobiography
, 2:71.
“Weather wet”: McKee, Diary, SHI.
“The roads”: Cluett,
History of the 57th,
90.
“mud in places”: Hubert,
Fiftieth Regiment,
324.
“continuous wet”: OR 44:125.
“They drove off”: Jones,
When Sherman Came
, 20.
“in some places”: Grunert,
History
, 128.
“I went to a farm house”: Noble, Papers, UMB.
“living bully”: Pierce, Diary, MHI.
“captured thirty mules”: Hoerner,
Chattanooga, Savannah and Alexandria
, 42.
“I…was compelled”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.
“about sixty wagons”: OR 44:253–54.
“The rest of my vigil”:
National Tribune,
1/25/1923.
“tore down”: Sheahan, Diary, ALL.
“Men are foraging”: Orr, “Civil War Diary.”
“Plenty of forage”: Fahnestock, Diary, KNP.
“Many of the female slaves”: Pendergast, Family Papers, MHS.
“not heartless”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
82–83.