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Title: Ohio in the war : her statesmen, her generals, and soldiers
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912
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Publisher: Cincinnati New York : Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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l? said I, Ill meet you again on your march. You dontknow where Im going, said he, with emphasis. I think I do, General, if I can catch you. Wheref At Charleston. Im i.ot going to Charleston. Then, at Wilmington. Im notgoing to Wilmington. Ill see you, I think, in Richmond. Im not going to Richmo»d.You dont know where Im going. Howard dont know. But he gave me the pass; I, at least,know where he was not going. •Shermans own phrase in describing Johnston. tSherman, indeed, estimated the force opposed to him at a much higher figure,—at one timereckoning it at not Ifess tlian forty-five thousand cflectivcs. (Rep. Com. Con. War. Series of 1867.Vol. I, p. 346.) But the honesty of General Johnstons official statements has never been ques-tioned, and he says that he had rbesides militia and other dead-weights who deserted him longbefore he had any chance to use thorn) not over twenty-five thousand effective strength. See, also,Swinton, Hint. Army Potomac, p. o67. William T. Sherman. 473
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CAMPAIGN OF THE CAROLINAS. William T. Sherman. 475 tliem rose, with fateful gleam, the bayonets of the converging ranks of a millionsoldiers. At the outset of his movement, Sherman experienced no difficulty save thatfrom the roads. The remnants of Hoods army—making their way eastward,over the route of the march from Atlanta to the sea, that region where now, asthe expressive phrase of the soldiers had it, a crow could not make the jour-ney without carrying a haversack,—experienced fatal delays. Meantime, theother Eebel forces were scattered, guarding points supposed to be in danger.Johnston had not yet assumed command, and there was no unity of action.Sherman made feints toward Charleston, on his right, and Hardee lay waitingfor him; and sent his cavalry toward Augusta, on his left, and the Georgia mili-tia staj-ed there. On his front were left only Wheelers and Wade Hamptonscavalry,—a force to be brushed aside by his army like house-flies. Presently,his columns appeared, unresi

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