Southern Storm (83 page)

“a seedy Southern village”: Rosenow,
Pen Pictures,
101.

“a small place”: Wilcox, Diary, MHI.

“old, weather-beaten”: Angle,
Three Years,
304.

“dilapidated”: Clark, Diaries, LHS.

“a desolate looking town”: Widney, Diary and Letters, KNP.

“Saw good looking girl”: Edmonds, Papers, MHI.

“the old man”: Angle,
Three Years,
307.

“Marched slow”: Omvig, Diaries, 114.

“Roads bad”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.

“a good bridge”:
New York Herald
, 12/28/1864.

“east of the Yellow River”: OR 44:270.

“Forage is very plentiful”: Hoerner,
Chattanooga, Savannah and Alexandria,
41.

“got plenty”: Harper, Diary, MHI.

“the crowing”:
Paterson Daily Register,
1/3/1865.

“I find [it] very hard”: Storrs,
Twentieth Connecticut,
150.

“I ate some hard tack”: Lathrop,
John Smethurst
, 59.

“some of the 3rd”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.

“burnt a cotton mill”: Ostrum Diary, MHI.

“isolated houses”: McBride,
Thirty-third Indiana
, 151.

“the lurid flames”: Davis-Quillin, Papers, AHC.

“Absorbed in thought”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman
, 60.

“either Savannah”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:179.

“sitting on the porch”/“sitting in the passageway”: Calkins,
One Hundred and Fourth Regiment
, 257.

“no fear”/“intelligent fellow”/“Line of fires”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman
, 60–61.

“Three days more”: Ibid., 63.

“to assist”: OR 44:475–76.

“Begin to-day”: Force, Papers, UWA.

“it very hard”: Platter, “Civil War Diary,” UGA.

“The boys went out”: Saunier,
History,
352.

“I was detailed this day”: Lyftogt,
Left for Dixie
, 61.

“foragers got lots”: Unknown Diarist, SHI.

“Some skirmishing”: Scheel,
Rain, Mud & Swamps,
456.

“a brigade of rebel cavalry”: OR 44:96.

“We entered the town”: Duke,
Fifty-third Regiment,
161.

“a lot of cotton”: Judkins, Diary, ISL.

“large Confederate mail”: Trimble,
Ninety-third Regiment,
145.

“We buried him”: Christie, Family Papers, MHS.

“It is perfectly”/“take such steps”: OR 44:472.

“carried through”: Carter,
Story,
304.

“Forage of all kinds”: Tomlinson,
“Dear Friends,”
172.

“most unmilitary”: OR 44:485.

“Augusta or Macon”: OR 44:859.

“You will cut”: OR 45/1:1213.

“There was nothing”: Taylor,
Destruction and Reconstruction
, 246.

“safety of prisoners”/“no serious fears”: Quoted in Iobst,
Civil War Macon,
339–40.

“If Sherman advances”: OR 44:860.

CHAPTER 8. “FORAGE OF ALL KINDS ABOUNDS”

Buttrills of Sylvan Grove: Buttrill, “Experience in the War,” GSA.

“a byroad”: Cryder and Stanley,
“War for the Union,”
457.

“Orders to be ready”: McMillan, Papers, WHS.

“to help”: Force, Papers, UWA.

“Advance ordered to kill”: Jamison,
Recollections,
280.

“The wagon trains”: Hubert,
Fiftieth Regiment,
322.

“We are flankers”: Dunbar, Diary, BHS.

“fine lot of Hogs”: Black,
“Marching with Sherman,”
454.

“The poor people”: Pepper,
Personal Recollections,
240.

“Now I reckon”: Berry, Letter, EU.

“Country beautiful”: Berkenes,
Private William Boddy,
151.

“Have had”: Ward, Diary, IHS.

“had to stop”: Brockman, “John Van Duser Diary,” 221–22.

“standing on the R.R.”: Angle,
Three Years,
307.

“I attached much”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:180.

“fine dwelling”: Fahnestock, Diary, KNP.

“The picture”: Widney, Diary and Letters, KNP.

“full of women”: Edmonds, Papers, MHI.

“flocked in large numbers”:
New York Herald,
12/22/64.

“Pretty foot and ankle”: Edmonds, Papers, MHI.

“she reckoned”: Calkins,
One Hundred and Fourth Regiment,
257.

“We left them”: Angle,
Three Years,
308–9.

“sandy & timber stands”: Reed, “Civil War Diaries,” MHS.

“Forage of all kinds”: Clark, Diaries, LHS.

“All kind of forage”: Bruce, “Daniel E. Bruce,” 195.

“Our course”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.

“My duties were defined”: Baldwin, Papers, HL.

“From the calves”: Grunert,
History,
124.

“carrying an armful”: Reed, “Civil War Diaries,” MHS.

“huge on catching fowls”: Failing-Knight, Papers, MHS.

“[Cotton] Gin house”: Maguire, Papers, AHC.

“The trains moved”: Padgett, “With Sherman through Georgia,” 57.

“Short marches”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.

“Standing still”: Morgan, Diary, MHI.

“waited till heartily tired”: Hinkley, Papers, WHS.

“Please give me”: Drake,
Army of Tennessee,
355.

“shortest road”: OR 44:863.

“we shall have lively times”: Cobb, Papers, UGA.

“the most dangerous”: OR 44:861–62.

“Things are very bad”: OR 44:862.

“Macon is to be defended”: Quoted in
Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel,
11/22/1864.

“with such things”: Chapman,
Civil War Diary
, 100.

“When General Sherman left”: Quoted in Stewart,
Reward of Patriotism,
198.

“the passage”: Chandler,
Confederate Records,
791.

“do all I can”/“we have not force”: Quoted in Iobst,
Civil War Macon
, 340–41.

“The prisoners”: OR 44:862.

“found plenty”:
Downing’s Civil War
, 229.

“A plenty”: House, “Civil War Diary,” MHS.

“Our men are clear discouraged”/“The men detailed”:
Reminiscences of the Civil War,
149.

“Along our route”: Platter, “Civil War Diary,” UGA.

“We…obtained a number”: Cryder and Stanley,
“War for the Union,”
457.

“Fire is doing its work”: Pittenger, Diary, OHS.

“[Rebel] cutthroats”: Unknown Diarist, SHI.

“a troop of Confederate”:
Fifty-fifth Regiment,
392-93.

“A couple of orderlies”: Daniels, Diary, HL.

“They retreated”: McMichael, “Burning of the Courthouse,” UDC.

“think we are making”: OR 44:485.

“Great excite[ment]”: Ray, Diary, GSA.

“If this war”: Buttrill story in Buttrill, “Experience in the War,” GSA.

“no one to fall behind”: OR 44:481–82.

“It has been”: Johnson, “‘Make a Preacher Swear,’” 33.

“Moving very slow”: Michael, Diary, IHS.

“there was but little”: OR 44:339.

“we had slow”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.

“Some wagon”: Wagoner, “From Wauhatchie,” 118.

“The niggers flock”: McLean, Family Papers, NYL.

“Massa, I’se gwine”: Otto, “Civil War Memoirs,” WHS.

“got into conversation”: Storrs,
Twentieth Connecticut
, 150.

“shot, burned and drowned”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
64.

“Don’t want white man”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
66–67.

“I have seen no enemy”: OR 44:482.

“We pry some of the rails”: Parker, Papers, HL.

“The ties were all burned”: Hapeman, Diary, ALL.

“we arrived at the”: Rosenow,
Pen Pictures,
102.

“I shut my eyes”: Widney, Diary and Letters, KNP.

“dashed into Social Circle”:
New York Herald,
12/28/1864.

“attempted to sham”: Rosenow,
Pen Pictures,
102.

“He is dressed”: Litton,
Union Soldier Returns South,
26.

“tried to get away”: Parker, Papers, HL.

“He still tells”: Litton,
Union Soldier Returns South,
26.

“Brigade commanders”/“use of cartridges”: OR 44:483–84.

CHAPTER 9. “ARISE FOR THE DEFENSE OF YOUR NATIVE SOIL!”

“an old fe[r]ry”: Moses, “Civil War Diary.”

“about 30 men”: Glossbrenner, Diary, MHI.

“As the enemy”: Brown,
Fourth Regiment,
340.

“We lived”: Platter, “Civil War Diary,” UGA.

“abundance of sweet”: Force, Papers, UWA.

“About a hundred”: Cryder and Stanley,
“War for the Union,”
457.

“he took a frantic spill”: Macy, Papers, SHI.

“all put their”: Stauffer,
Civil War Diary,
n.p.

“There was a grist mill”: Keyes, Diary, MHI.

“2 splendid buildings”: Christie, Family Papers, MHS.

“lots of women”: Girdner, Letters, EU.

“The most majestic”: Anderson,
Civil War Diary,
177.

“convinced that the impression”: OR 44:363.

“bridges on the road”:
Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel,
11/19/1864.

“On the 18th”: Drake,
Army of Tennessee,
356.

“reached Forsythe”: Smith, “Georgia Militia,” 667.

“long before chicks”: Omvig, Diaries, 115.

“Some of the 85th boys”: Herron,
Reminiscences,
22.

“I thought this”: Garrett, “Uninvited Guests,” UDC.

“Citizens don’t like the ‘Yanks’”: Morrow, Diary, MHI.

“good looking girls”: McLean, Family Papers, NYL.

“no evidence”: Bauer,
Soldiering
, 183.

“In less than ten minutes”: Angle,
Three Years,
309.

“cloudy and threatening rain”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
67–68.

“fordable”: Ibid., 68.

“not anxious to witness”: Brockman, “John Van Duser Diary,” 222.

“there is a mighty”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
68.

This was all intended”: Brockman, “John Van Duser Diary,” 223.

“To the People of Georgia”: Beauregard/Hill proclamations in OR 44:867.

“In addition”: OR 44:865.

“that the military authorities”: Quoted in Iobst,
Civil War Macon,
342.

“in the fortifications”: OR 44:868.

“Employ your cavalry”: OR 44:867.

“should not allow”: OR 44:868.

“Enemy pressing”: OR 44:868.

“rendered valueless”:
Acts of the General Assembly,
16–24.

“Some members”/“Everything in the Executive”: McAdoo, Diary, LOC.

“A heavy force”: OR 44:865.

“By paying”: Barber,
Army Memoirs
, 179.

“Here many of our boys”: Saunier,
History
, 352.

“The Confederate officials”: Sherlock,
Memorabilia,
145.

“entered into interesting”: Wright,
Sixth Iowa,
360.

“But the tears”: Ibid., 360–61.

“Drove in the enemy’s pickets”: McClintock, Papers, HL.

“in this way”: Christie, Family Papers, MHS.

“This looked hard”: Baker,
Soldier’s Experience
, 40.

“At the eastern end”: Harwell and Racine,
Fiery Trail
, 55.

“The crossing of the Ocmulgee”: Howard, “Sherman’s Advance from Atlanta,” 664.

“a considerable amount”: Hoerner,
Chattanooga, Savannah and Alexandria
, 41.

“along the R.R.”: Parmater, Diary, OHS.

“Men feel a little jaded”: Ames, Diary, MHI.

“Forage abundant”: Brant,
History of the Eighty-fifth,
76.

“Sent out two”: OR 44:245.

“proceed along”: OR 44:233.

“whiskey uppermost”: Kendall, Diary and Letters, CHS.

“After a run”: Scott, “‘With Tears in Their Eyes,’” 28.

“were angry”: Parker, Papers, HL.

“On the 18th”: Floyd,
History of the Seventy-fifth,
348.

“a crippled Confederate”: McNeil,
Personal Recollections,
59.

“Every window and door”:
New York Herald,
12/22/1864.

“attempted to”: Jones,
When Sherman Came,
6–7.

“Negroes all want”: Emmons, Diaries, UIA.

“saw several darkey women”: Kellogg,
Illinois Soldier
, 28.

“Some of the boys”: Otto,
Civil War Memoirs
, WHS.

“Your soldiers”: Jones,
When Sherman Came
, 6–7.

“a deep, sluggish stream”: Hight and Stormont,
Fifty-eighth Regiment,
416–18.

“village of negro huts”:
New York Herald,
12/22/1864.

“I was bound to come”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
70.

“supposed that slavery”/“with a ham on his musket”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:180–81.

“a number of soldiers”:
New York Herald,
12/22/1864.