Southern Storm (90 page)

“the netted abatis”: Connelly,
History,
138.

“crawling under”: Burt, Diary.

“to charge with a rush”: Quoted in Christman,
Undaunted,
67.

“tangle of buckhorns”:
National Tribune,
2/20/1913.

“that it would take four”: Quoted in Livingston,
“Among the Best Men,”
104.

“Some got through”:
National Tribune,
6/20/1907.

“from the bullets”:
National Tribune,
1/29/1914.

“There they go”:
New York Herald,
12/22/1864.

“the most difficult part”:
National Tribune,
6/14/1900.

“They crossed the ditch”: Howard,
Autobiography,
2:91.

“The wind lifted the smoke”: Nichols,
Great March,
90.

“were all engaged”: Saunier,
History,
364.

“we had to bayonet”: Dye, Letter, MCA.

“I would…most respectfully”: Quoted in Jones,
Siege of Savannah
, 127.

“Get to the rear, George”: Gordon, Letter, HFL.

“recognized and spoke”: Quoted in Christman,
Undaunted,
71.

“the parapets were blue”: Sherman,
Memoirs,
2:198.

“Then all of us”: Nichols,
Great March,
91.

“so wild and boisterous”: Brown,
Signal Corps,
564.

“Fort McAllister is ours”: OR 44:753.

“held out your hand”: Anderson, Papers, GHS.

“Take a good big drink”: OR 44:704.

“they were good oarsmen”: Sherman,
Memoirs,
2:198.

“even Generals Sherman”: Strong, “Account,” LOC.

“he invited us to join them”: Sherman,
Memoirs,
2:199.

“I’se workin’”: Hazen,
Narrative,
334.

“When the news was received”: Cryder and Stanley,
“War for the Union,”
464.

“I would the world”: Pittenger, Diary, OHS.

“I hear the troops”: Vail, Diary, OHS.

“Fort McAllister is taken”: Owens,
Greene County,
105.

“a great load”: Quoted in Schmidt,
Civil War History,
1065.

“Hardtack!”: Taylor,
Lights and Shadows
, 22.

“some news”: Sherman,
Memoirs,
2:199.

“an ambulance”: Howard,
Autobiography,
2:92.

“an unwarrantable”: Quoted in Jones,
Siege of Savannah,
126.

“reporting the loss”: OR 44:955.

“What boat”: OR 44:753.

“succeeded in avoiding”: Howard,
Autobiography,
2:92.

Sherman’s dispatches: OR 44:701–2.

“shared my blankets”: Hazen,
Narrative,
334.

“Signals, shots and fires”:
National Tribune,
1/30/1902.

“The officers and sailors”: Ibid.

“I was extremely weary”: Sherman,
Memoirs,
2:202.

“He may have been a lion”: Hight and Stormont,
Fifty-eighth Regiment,
442.

“the most American looking”: Gray and Ropes,
War Letters,
427.

“strongly intrenched”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:202.

“ample supplies”: OR 44:708.

“perfectly sure of capturing”: OR 44:713.

“says the city is his sure game”: Gray and Ropes,
War Letters,
427.

“indispensable”: Sherman,
Memoirs,
2:202.

“Anchored immediately”: ORN, 16:361.

“I was not personally acquainted”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:203.

“that navy officers”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
188.

“Not liking to rejoice”: OR 44:611–12.

“News came about 10 o’clock”: Hickman, Diary and Letters, UMB.

“have been cheering”: Angle,
Three Years,
363.

“Now we are knocking”: Jones, “For My Country,” 173.

“They would make a mark”:
National Tribune,
3/7/1907.

“to be employed”: Beauregard clipping, in Sherman, Papers, LOC.

“We will soon have rations”: Cruikshank, “Civil War Letters.”

“must soon end our season”: Champlin, Diary, WRS.

“Our food line”: Buerstatte, “Civil War Diary.”

“Almost every tree”: Parker, Papers, HL.

“We captured a yawl”: Kittinger, Diary, MHI.

“If Hood’s Battalion”: Quoted in Rogers and Saunders, “Scourge of Sherman’s Men,” 358.

Mary Jones Jones: Incident recounted in Jones and Mallard,
Yankees A’Coming
, 33–37.

“No change from yesterday”: Morrow, Diary, MHI.

“The frogs are peeping”: Boies,
Record,
104.

“This morning”: Hancock, Diary.

“We were stationed”: Allspaugh, Diaries, UIA.

“a heavy detail”:
National Tribune,
6/13/1901.

“lost three men”: Bush, “Civil War Letters and Diary,” ISL.

“Rations getting scarce”: Armstrong, Diary, IHS.

“Living on rice”: Burt, Diary.

“We are now living”: Bircher,
Drummer-Boy’s Diary
, 152.

“The story they tell”:
Lancaster Daily Evening Express,
1/3/1865.

“There is much diversity”: Reeve, Papers, WHS.

“The boys waded”: Calkins,
One Hundred and Fourth Regiment,
270.

“boats enough”: Carmen, “General Hardee’s Escape,” 194.

“Damn it!”: Ibid.

“seal up that side”: OR 44:719–20.

“The citizens of Savannah”:
Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel,
12/15/1864.

“I desire being informed”/“I shall be compelled”: OR 44:959–60.

“I feel uneasy”: OR 44:962.

“come here”: Quoted in Lawrence,
Present for Mr. Lincoln,
192.

“services [were] not being longer needed”: Quoted in Hallock,
Braxton Bragg,
227.

“the part of chronicler”: Miers,
Rebel War Clerk’s Diary
, 474.

“a truly formidable work”/“still there cooking”: ORN, 16:361.

“How on earth”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
189.

“very busy pulling”: ORN, 16:362.

“about noon”: Sherman,
Memoirs,
2:203.

“group of twenty-five”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
193.

“For the present”: OR 44:720–21.

“thinking of various things”: Woodhull, “Glimpse of Sherman,” 457–58.

“the most important operation”: OR 44:636.

“The contents”: Sherman,
Memoirs,
2:206.

“He now stood”: Woodhull, “Glimpse of Sherman,” 458.

CHAPTER 21. “I BEG TO PRESENT YOU AS A CHRISTMAS GIFT THE CITY OF SAVANNAH”

“initiated measures”: Sherman-Grant message in OR 44:726–28; Sherman,
Memoirs,
2:207.

“I had no idea”: Grant-Sherman message in Grant,
Personal Memoirs,
2:401; OR 44:728–29.

“Attack Hood at once”: Quoted in Sword,
Embrace an Angry Wind,
291.

“They all scampered”: Ibid., 387.

“the worst broke”: Ibid., 406.

“was slow, deliberate”: Quoted in Hirshson,
White Tecumseh,
357.

“Our company”: Lovrien, Diary, KNP.

“hereby placed in charge”: OR 44:732.

“a total force”: Hickenlooper, Collection, CIN.

“Johnnies have thrown”: Parmater, Diary, OHS.

“make us lay”: Brown, Papers, DU.

“Now thinks I”: Fisher, Letters, NYL.

“Rations are getting shorter”: Cruikshank, “Civil War Letters.” 465 “I manage to get”: Armstrong, Diary, IHS.

“Received a large mail”: Johnson, “March to the Sea,” 333.

“This last trip”: Putney, Papers, WHS.

“three hundred dollars’”/“Some of us”: Calkins,
One Hundred and Fourth Regiment,
272–73.

“the highest honor”: in Simpson and Berlin,
Sherman’s Civil War,
767–68.

“I’ve brought you”: Quoted in Davis,
Sherman’s March,
107–8.

“thankful for his”: Simpson and Berlin,
Sherman’s Civil War,
777.

“A rice field”: Morgan, Diary, MHI.

“any quantity of rice”:
Historical Sketch of Co. D,
37.

“knew enough”: Toombs,
Reminiscences,
182.

“annoying, stopping”: Quint,
Record,
253.

“They made excellent practice”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.

“Even while lying”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.

“I was sent with my Company”: Hinkley,
Narrative of Service,
161.

“lads of the company”: Bryant,
History,
295.

“We blazed away”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.

“Gen. Sherman does not seem”: Duncan, Papers, NJH.

“only about one-third”: Chisolm, “Failure to Capture Hardee,” 680.

“attack is of no importance”: OR 44:963.

“and all persons”: Quoted in
New York Herald,
12/22/1864.

“My time”: OR 44:150.

“Broke camp”: Jamison,
Recollections,
289.

“Saw Men”: Pratt, Diary, WHS.

“We got some sweet”: McConnell,
John D. Martin’s Journal,
26.

“Leaving camp”:
Fifty-fifth Regiment,
399–400.

“man in Company B”: Saunier,
History,
373.

“a low level”: Champlin, Diary, WRS.

“I shot a hog”: Miller, Diary, IHS.

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

“Card-playing”: Charlton, “From Atlanta to the Sea,” MHI.

“the hearts of the men”: Aten,
History,
254.

“how glad we were”: Quoted in Schmidt,
Civil War History,
1067.

“The 29th presents”: Parmater, Diary, OHS.

“Rebels shell”: McMillan, Papers, WHS.

“We lie in a swampy”: Henney, Letters, MHI.

“Our pickets are so close”: Cutter, Letters, MHS.

“One of ours”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.

“I rode from my headquarters”: Sherman,
Memoirs,
2:210.

Sherman surrender demand: OR 44:737.

“My rank”: Carmen, “General Hardee’s Escape,” 210.

“was suddenly surrounded”: Jones,
Siege of Savannah,
138.

“the fullest possible defense”: OR 44:963.

“make the dispositions”: OR 44:964.

“after full consultation”: Roman,
Military Operations,
2:316.

“I have to acknowledge”: Hardee surrender response in OR 44:736–37.

“both”: Harwell and Racine,
Fiery Trail,
72.

“on the successful”: OR 44:741.

“more delay”: OR 44:741–43.

“I…resolved”: Sherman,
Memoirs,
2:210.

“Of course I must fight”: Quoted in Marszalek,
Sherman,
309.

“It is all important”: OR 44:750.

“the enemy held the river”: OR 44:11.

“to make a mistake”: Sherman,
Memoirs,
2:216.

“commenced taring up”: Sebring, Diary, ISL.

“went to work”: Saunier,
History,
374.

“a small aristocratic”: Jamison,
Recollections,
289.

“There we got some”: McConnell,
John D. Martin’s Journal,
26.

“found plenty of sweet”: Reed, “Civil War Diaries,” MHS.

“glad after all to know”: Essington, Diary, ISL.

“whether the joke”: Patrick and Willey, “‘We Have Surely,’” 234.

“bombs, shells, and balls”:
National Tribune,
6/17/1926.

“It looks very romantic”: Hight and Stormont,
Fifty-eighth Regiment,
436–37.

“Our Division was drawn up”: Quoted in Schmidt,
Civil War History,
1068.

“informed me”: Carmen, “General Hardee’s Escape,” 198.

“Active, urgent preparations”: Roman,
Military Operations,
2:317.

“prosecuted with…vigor”: Chisolm, “Failure to Capture Hardee,” 680.

“If Hoke and Johnson”: OR 44:966.

“Of our weakness”: Graves, Letters, UDC.

“Our works are very”: Swiggart,
Shades of Gray,
77.

“to push the preparations”: OR 44:756, 761.

“great disappointment”: ORN, 16:362.

“Still taring up”: Sebring, Diary, ISL.

“loaded the [wagon]”: Judkins, Diary, ISL.

“Moved out”: Pratt, Diary, WHS.

“our teams all loaded”: Reed, “Civil War Diaries,” MHS.

“would sing hymns”: Cryder and Stanley,
“War for the Union,”
465.

“It was a strange”: Angle,
Three Years,
367–68.

“and the men”: Cryder and Stanley,
“War for the Union,”
465.

“with view to the adoption”: OR 44:279.

“make thorough”: OR 44:761.

“the opposite shore”: Parrott, Letters, SHI.

“some heavy cannonading”: Clark,
Downing’s Civil War,
239.

“We lay within 100 yds”: Noble, Papers, UMB.