Southern Storm (82 page)

“The enemy cannot use”: OR 32/1:176. 48 Special Field Orders No. 120: OR 39/3:713.

“looked to personal fame”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:171.

“needed commanders”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:86.

“I know [that] Kilpatrick”: Quoted in Martin,
Kill-Cavalry,
193, 185.

“reduced to a minimum”: Oakey, “Marching through Georgia,” 672.

“I had wagons”: Howe,
Home Letters,
321.

“little loose”: OR 44:14.

“Evidently it is”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
125.

“Of course you cannot”: Simpson and Berlin,
Sherman’s Civil War
, 820, 598–602.

“Now it is clearly”: Ibid., 818.

“domestic slavery”: Sherman, “Old Shady,” 4.

“The U.S. has its hands”/“Now you Know”: Simpson and Berlin,
Sherman’s Civil War,
574, 794.

“That was his conception”: Quoted in
Army Reunion,
102–3.

“I have enough”: OR 39/3:577.

“I would be lost”: OR 44:833.

“The rains”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
42.

“This is the rain”/“is now raining”: OR 39/3:700, 697.

CHAPTER 5. “PARADISE OF FOOLS”

“It would astonish”: Bachelder,
Bachelder Family Letters,
50.

“several trains of cattle”: Pendergast, Family Papers, MHS.

“The Railroad Depots”: Platter, “Civil War Diary,” UGA.

“The light of the conflagration”:
Cincinnati Daily Commercial
, 11/19/1864.

“passed Cartersville”: Miller, Diary, IHS.

“railroads, depots”: OR 44:59–60.

“detail of men”: Cruikshank, “Civil War Letters.”

“knocking things”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.

“opened with a grand”: Widney, Diary and Letters, KNP.

“Perhaps I may prove”: Bachelder,
Bachelder Family Letters,
50.

“It is very evident”: Bradley,
Star Corps,
180.

“Events are shaping”: Ray, Diary, GSA.

“I remember seeing”: Taylor,
Lights and Shadows,
19.

“many officers”: Hedley,
Marching through Georgia,
254.

“slowly but majestically”: Strong, Papers, ALL.

“in good spirits”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
51.

“will live long”: Quoted in Merrill,
William Tecumseh Sherman,
268.

“I may be in error”: Quoted in Hirshson,
White Tecumseh
, 250.

“I will not attempt”: Simpson and Berlin,
Sherman’s Civil War
, 752.

“Our men”: Cate,
“If I Live,”
258.

“fire suddenly burst”: Byrne,
Uncommon Soldiers
, 201.

“A cable was attached”: Fleharty,
Our Regiment,
108.

“It is evident”: Quoted in Miles,
To the Sea
, 18.

“very quick”: Quoted in Dyer,
From Shiloh to San Juan,
5.

“were convinced”: Lafferty, “Civil War Reminiscences,” 14.

“There are the men”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
52–53.

“was greeted”: Ward, Diary, IHS.

“a beautiful sight”:
Lancaster Daily Evening Express,
1/3/1865.

“superb for picture”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
54.

“The railroad”:
Philadelphia Inquirer
, 1/2/1865.

“Sherman will move forward”: OR 44:857.

“carried out”: Roman,
Military Operations
, 287.

“big Yankee lie”: Quoted in
Philadelphia Inquirer
, 11/17/1864.

“We burn all”: Inskeep, Diary, OHS.

“Today we are”: Roseberry, Diary, UMB.

“was a fine building”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.

“I saw that”: Carr Diary, KNP.

“see the smoke”: Hubert,
Fiftieth Regiment,
321.

“Tremendous fires”: Kellogg,
Army Life of an Illinois Soldier
, 319.

“the flames mount”: Trowbridge, Papers, UMC.

“vast waves”: Hopkins, “March to the Sea,” 47.

“They came burning”: Quoted in Carter,
Siege of Atlanta
, 372.

“We already had marched”: Rosenow,
Pen Pictures,
100.

“there was swearing”: Parker, Papers, HL.

“overhauled our knapsacks”: Christie Family Papers, MHS.

“a feeling of loneliness”: Fleharty,
Our Regiment,
102.

“the earth seems”: Dunbar, Diary, BHS.

“came uncomfortably near”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:177.

“the prospect”: Quaife,
From the Cannon’s Mouth,
351.

“Straggling and pillaging”: OR 44:463.

“the greatest”: OR 44:452.

“the flanks of the army”: OR 44:458.

“Was there no enemy”:
New York Times,
2/16/1876.

“signal that a great”:
Lancaster Daily Evening Express,
1/3/1865.

“position of the cavalry”: Hamilton,
Recollections,
153.

“via McDonough”: OR 44:451.

“opposition at these great rivers”:
New York Times,
1/29/1876.

“The general commanding”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:174.

CHAPTER 6. “DIES IRAE FILLED THE AIR”

“waiting and working”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.

“They had just been paid”: Federico,
Civil War Letters,
163–64.

“Here we saw”: Bauer,
Soldiering
, 175.

“I beheld”: Benton,
As Seen
, 211.

“fearful sight”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.

“as we left”: Michael, Diary, IHS.

“with a [supply] train”:
New York Herald,
12/28/1864.

“found every street”: Angle,
Three Years,
300.

“battering down”: OR 44:60.

“First, there was”: Hight and Stormont,
Fifty-eighth Regiment,
409.

“which could be converted”: Sherman,
Memoirs,
2:178.

“We have been fighting”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
58.

“Exciting time”: Carter,
Story,
304.

“We were cheery”: Saunier,
History,
351.

“Started early”: Clark,
Downing’s Civil War
, 229.

“on our strength”: Scheel,
Rain, Mud & Swamps,
455.

“It took some time”:
National Tribune,
4/16/1903.

“We…made slow”: Brown,
Fourth Regiment,
339.

“We found some Rebel”: Sherlock,
Memorabilia,
143.

“if she was in good voice”: Joyce, “From Infantry to Cavalry,” 253–54.

“The session”:
Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel,
11/19/1864.

“Nearly one thousand”: Barber,
Army Memoirs
, 178.

“slaughtered thirty-five”: Davidson,
Fourteen Months
, 337.

“We have found”: Hinkley, Papers, WHS.

“a small”: Chapman,
Civil War Diary
, 99.

“its Court House”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.

“As our advances”: Grunert,
History,
123.

“many of the buildings”: OR 44:339.

“I remember”: Storrs,
Twentieth Connecticut,
149.

“a vast body”: McCreary, Papers, DU.

“Standing thus”: Benton,
As Seen
, 213.

“surprise and wonder”: Bauer,
Soldiering
, 177.

“the western sky”: Fleharty,
Our Regiment,
109.

“I suppose”: Russell, Letter, OHS.

“Dies irae”: Merrill,
Seventieth Indiana
, 524.

“I saw 4 or 5”: Daniels, Diary, HL.

“The wagons”: Bargus, Diary, MHI.

“a disagreeable task”: Sharland,
Knapsack Notes
, 10.

“advanced with infantry”: Quoted in Dodson,
Campaigns of Wheeler
, 285.

“We charged them”: Ward, Diary, IHS.

“I deemed it best”: OR 44:381.

“were hitting”: Joyce, “From Infantry to Cavalry,” 254.

“We made lots of noise”: Rogers,
Great Civil War,
13.

“We had a very hard”: Patchin,
Letters of Jonathan Bridges
, 57.

“where re-enforcements”: OR 44:858.

“destroy everything”: Quoted in Dyer,
From Shiloh to San Juan
, 159.

“The whole region”: Pepper,
Personal Recollections,
240.

“Atlanta on fire”: Pittenger, Diary, OHS.

“soldiers to go in”: Angle,
Three Years,
301.

“As we left the town”: Burton, Diary, EU.

“It must have been a weird”: Moffatt,
Union Soldier’s Civil War,
134–35.

“military purposes”/“lawless persons”: OR 44:56, 60.

“great scandal”: Poe, Papers and Letters, LOC.

“smoke, dust”: Tourgee,
Story of a Thousand
, 335.

“This has been”: Berry, Diary, AHC.

“Every instant”: Rogers,
125th Regiment,
108.

“probably…visible”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
57.

“I saw Gen. Sherman”: Kellogg,
Army Life of an Illinois Soldier
, 25.

“The [blazing]”: Westervelt,
Lights and Shadows
, 84.

“was truly superb”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.

“strange light”: Underwood,
Three Years’ Service,
240.

“always will…carry me back”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
59.

“I have never heard”: Nichols,
Great March
, 41.

“Nero made music”: Hunter,
Eighty-Second Indiana,
136.

“only danger yet”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
59.

“it looked like”: Berry Diary, AHC.

CHAPTER 7. “LURID FLAMES LIT UP THE HEAVENS”

“The air was resonant”: Kerr, “From Atlanta to Raleigh,” 208.

“The roaring”: Althouse and Hughes,
Civil War Letters,
120.

“Who set it afire?”:
National Tribune
, 6/28/1900.

“A last look”: Ege, Papers, WHS.

“Country sandy”: Porter, Diary, OHS.

“men were cheering”: Kerr, “From Atlanta to Raleigh,” 208.

“The Corps”: Floyd,
History of the Seventy-fifth,
344.

“All believed”: Kerr, “From Atlanta to Raleigh,” 208.

“What doubts”: Ladd, “From Atlanta to the Sea,” 6.

“General rode quietly”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman
, 60.

“Behind us”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:178–79.

“Felt a little sore”:
National Tribune
, 2/26/1925.

“tired and sleepy”: Buckingham, Papers, AAS.

“We know not”: Wheeler, Letters and Journal, ALL.

“picked up”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.

“The marching to-day”: OR 44:269.

“We marched”:
National Tribune
, 2/26/1925.

“train of freight cars”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.

“The modus operandi”:
National Tribune
, 2/26/1925.

“destroyed two miles”: OR 44:216.

“only partially”:
Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel,
12/24/1864.

“Piled all surplus”: Sligh,
History of the Services
, 26.

“perfect ruin”: Howland, Papers, MHS.

“Mr. Soldier”: Campbell, Civil War Experiences, MCA.

“Enemy advancing”: OR 44:859.

“The temptation”: Fultz, “History of Company D,” 73.

“enjoyed a good rest”: Duke,
Fifty-third,
161.

“The shells whistled”: Eisenhower, Diary, MHI.

“route was blocked”: OR 44:374.

“We were so completely”: Quoted in Miles,
To the Sea
, 142.

“a six-gun battery”:
National Tribune
, 3/23/1922.

“nonsensical”: Quoted in
Cincinnati Daily Commercial,
11/23/1864.

“that a [Confederate] force”: Ibid.

“with unsparing vehemence”:
Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel
, 11/22/1864.

“one of the boldest”:
Cincinnati Daily Commercial,
11/16/1864.

“An officer of Sherman’s staff”:
Chicago Tribune,
11/16/1864.

“no shelter was provided”: Davidson,
Fourteen Months
, 332–3.

“Old worn-out”: Rosenow,
Pen Pictures,
101.

“Foragers were sent out”: Otto,
Civil War Memoirs
, WHS.

“No one knew”: Miller, Diary, IHS.

“tenderly laid”: Floyd,
History of the Seventy-fifth,
346.