- Joined
- Nov 27, 2018
- Location
- Chattanooga, Tennessee
SHERMAN’S REPORT
January 1, 1865
“On the same day [Nov. 14], General Slocum moved with the Twentieth Corps by Decatur and Stone Mountain, with orders to tear up the railroad from Social Circle to Madison, to burn the large and important railroad bridge across the Oconee, east of Madison,…”
“During the 2oth [Nov.] General Kilpatrick made a good feint on Macon, driving the enemy within his intrenchments, and then drew back to Griswoldville, where Walcutt’s brigade of infantry joined him to cover that flank, whilst Howard’s trains were closing up, and his men scattered, breaking up railroads.”
“General Howard was then ordered to move eastward, destroying the railroad thoroughly in his progress as far as Tennille Station…”
“General Kilpatrick was ordered to Milledgeville, and thence move rapidly eastward, to break the railroad which leads from Millen to Augusta,…”
“General Slocum was then ordered to tar up and destroy the Georgia Central Railroad, from Station 13 (Tennille) to Station 10, near the crossing of the Ogeechee-…”
“The Seventeenth Corps took up the destruction of the railroad at the Ogeechee, near Station 10, and continued it to Millen,…”
“On the 3rd of December the Seventeenth Corps, which I accompanied, was at Millen; the Fifteenth Corps (General Howard) was south of the Ogeechee, opposite Station 7 (Scarborough); the Twentieth Corps (General Slocum) on the Augusta Railroad, about four miles north of Millen, near Buck Head Church, and the Fourteenth Corps (General Jeff. C. Davis) in the neighborhood of Lumpkin's Station, on the Augusta Railroad…”
“All were ordered to march in the direction of Savannah----“
Lubliner.
January 1, 1865
“On the same day [Nov. 14], General Slocum moved with the Twentieth Corps by Decatur and Stone Mountain, with orders to tear up the railroad from Social Circle to Madison, to burn the large and important railroad bridge across the Oconee, east of Madison,…”
“During the 2oth [Nov.] General Kilpatrick made a good feint on Macon, driving the enemy within his intrenchments, and then drew back to Griswoldville, where Walcutt’s brigade of infantry joined him to cover that flank, whilst Howard’s trains were closing up, and his men scattered, breaking up railroads.”
“General Howard was then ordered to move eastward, destroying the railroad thoroughly in his progress as far as Tennille Station…”
“General Kilpatrick was ordered to Milledgeville, and thence move rapidly eastward, to break the railroad which leads from Millen to Augusta,…”
“General Slocum was then ordered to tar up and destroy the Georgia Central Railroad, from Station 13 (Tennille) to Station 10, near the crossing of the Ogeechee-…”
“The Seventeenth Corps took up the destruction of the railroad at the Ogeechee, near Station 10, and continued it to Millen,…”
“On the 3rd of December the Seventeenth Corps, which I accompanied, was at Millen; the Fifteenth Corps (General Howard) was south of the Ogeechee, opposite Station 7 (Scarborough); the Twentieth Corps (General Slocum) on the Augusta Railroad, about four miles north of Millen, near Buck Head Church, and the Fourteenth Corps (General Jeff. C. Davis) in the neighborhood of Lumpkin's Station, on the Augusta Railroad…”
“All were ordered to march in the direction of Savannah----“
Lubliner.