Southern Storm (81 page)

Col. Henry M. Ashby

1st Tennessee Cavalry

Col. James T. Wheeler

2nd Tennessee Cavalry

Capt. William M. Smith

5th Tennessee Cavalry

Col. George W. McKenzie

9th Tennessee Cavalry

Capt. W. L. Bromley

Brig. Gen. Samuel W. Ferguson [
S
]

2nd Alabama Cavalry

Lieut. Col. John N. Carpenter

56th Alabama Cavalry

Col. William Boyles

9th Mississippi Cavalry

Col. Horace H. Miller

11th Mississippi Cavalry

Col. Robert O. Perrin

12th Mississippi Battalion

Col. William M. Inge

Brig. Gen. Joseph H. Lewis

2nd Kentucky Mounted Infantry

4th Kentucky Mounted Infantry

9th Kentucky Mounted Infantry

Worthen’s North Carolina Battalion

3rd Battalion Georgia Reserves

1st Regiment Georgia Reserves

Brig. Gen. Robert H. Anderson

3rd Confederate Cavalry

Lieut. Col. John McCaskill

8th Confederate Cavalry

Lieut. Col. John S. Prather

10th Confederate Cavalry

Capt. W. J. Vason

12th Confederate Cavalry

Lieut. Col. Marcellus Pointer

5th Georgia Cavalry

Col. Edward Bird

Brig. Gen. George G. Dibrell

4th Tennessee Cavalry

Col. William S. McLemore

8th Tennessee Cavalry

Lieut. Col. Paul F. Anderson

9th Tennessee Cavalry

Capt. James M. Reynolds

10th Tennessee Cavalry

Maj. John Minor

11th Tennessee Cavalry

Col. Daniel W. Holman

Brig. Gen. Pierce M. B. Young

10th Georgia Cavalry

20th Georgia Battalion

Cobb’s Legion Cavalry Battalion

Phillip’s Legion Cavalry Battalion

Note:
Complete information for material cited in the chapter notes can be found in the bibliography. All references to Series I of
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
are here designated OR, followed by the volume and number of the series. Similarly, all references to
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies
are abbreviated ORN, and to the
Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies,
ORS. Other frequently used source abbreviations appearing herein are as follows: AAS (American Antiquarian Society), AHC (Atlanta History Center), ALL (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library), BHS (Bureau County Historical Society), CHI (Chicago Historical Society), CHS (Chemung County Historical Society), CIN (Cincinnati Historical Society), CSL (Connecticut State Library), DU (Duke University), EU (Emory University), GHS (Georgia Historical Society), GSA (Georgia State Archives), HFL (Henry Ford Library), HL (Huntington Library), IHS (Indiana Historical Society), ISL (Indiana State Library), IU, (Indiana University), KNP (Kennesaw Mountain National Park), KNX (Knox College), LHS (Lancaster County Historical Society), LOC (Library of Congress), LSU (Louisiana State University), MAS (Massachusetts Historical Society), MCA (Fort McAllister Historic Park), MHI (United States Military History Institute), MHS (Minnesota Historical Society), NA (National Archives), NJH (New Jersey Historical Society), NYH (New-York Historical Society), NYL (New York State Library), OHS (Ohio Historical Society), PAH (Pennsylvania Historical Society), RU (Rutgers University), SHC (Southern Historical Collection), SHI (State Historical Society of Iowa), TSL (Tennessee State Library), UDC (Georgia Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy: Confederate Reminiscences and Letters, 1861–1865), UGA (University of Georgia, Athens), UMB (Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan), UIA (University of Iowa), UMC (William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan), UWA (University of Washington), WHS (Wisconsin Historical Society), and WRS (Western Reserve Historical Society).

CHAPTER 1. A GATHERING OF EAGLES

“view to judging”: Davis,
Rise & Fall
, 2:478.

“sovereignty of the State”: Quoted in Parks,
Joseph E. Brown,
219.

“a traitor”: Quoted in ibid., 281.

“prolonged applause”: Rowland,
Jefferson Davis
, 341.

“poor man”: Cooper,
Jefferson Davis
, 526.

“Our cause”: Macon speech in Rowland,
Jefferson Davis
, 341–44.

“the [sad] face”: Williams,
Diary from Dixie
, 297.

“to all human calculations”: Quoted in McMurry,
John Bell Hood
, 152.

“not unreasonable hope”: Rowland,
Jefferson Davis
, 378–79.

“rode forth”: Hood,
Advance and Retreat
, 253.

“I now ask”: Quoted in Hughes,
General William J. Hardee
, 245, 248.

“The time for action”: Rowland,
Jefferson Davis
, 345–47.

“I…warned him”: Taylor/Davis meeting described in Taylor,
Destruction and Reconstruction
, 242–44.

“I can say,”/“best which can be”: Quoted in Hughes,
General William J. Hardee
, 248, 250.

“There are those”: Quoted in Boritt,
Jefferson Davis’s Generals
, 53.

“perfectly feasible”: Roman,
Military Operations
, 2:278.

“he would be”: Roman,
Military Operations
, 2:279.

“the hero”: Augusta speech in Rowland,
Jefferson Davis
, 358–61.

“man…who looks”: Williams,
Diary from Dixie
, 438.

“great struggle”: Columbia speech in Rowland,
Jefferson Davis
, 351–55.

“spoke very candidly”: Williams,
Diary from Dixie
, 440.

“If every man fit”: Rowland,
Jefferson Davis
, 351.

“There are no vital”: Richmond speech in Richardson,
Messages and Papers
, 1:271.

CHAPTER 2. CAPTIVE AUDIENCES

“Our town”: Jones,
When Sherman Came
, 5.

“I can see nothing”: Lunt,
Woman’s Wartime Journal
, 3–14.

“The winter”: Jones,
When Sherman Came
, 15.

“whether the State of Georgia”: Quoted in Iobst,
Civil War Macon
, 330.

“It was very astounding”: Felton,
Country Life in Georgia
, 89–90.

“We know what terrible”: Jones,
When Sherman Came
, 20.

“But the misfortunes”: Brown speech quoted in Parks,
Joseph E. Brown
, 307.

“six different wards”:
Sunny South
, 11/30/1901.

“a sock a day”: Quoted in Walters,
Oconee River
, 284–86.

“much more pleasant”: Barber,
Army Memoirs
, 177.

“Disease and starvation”: Quoted in Bailey,
War and Ruin
, 44.

“Let us not judge”: Davidson,
Fourteen Months
, 334.

“a merry hearted girl”: UDC, 3:73.

“tranquil old city”: Quoted in Lawrence,
A Present for Mr. Lincoln
, 4.

“altogether the most”: Ibid., 165.

“His only answer”: Quoted in Stampp,
The Peculiar Institution
, 91.

“I know that”: Quoted in Federal Writers’ Project,
Georgia Narratives
, 192.

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

“Massa hates”: Nichols,
Great March
, 59.

“The whites who were left”: Harris,
On the Plantation
, 49.

“I got way up”: Quoted in Federal Writers’ Project,
Georgia Narratives
, 168–69, 235–36.

CHAPTER 3. THE STORMBRINGER

“You must continue”: Sherman on Willy quoted in Fellman,
Citizen Sherman,
199–201.

“forced into prominence”: Ibid., 117.

“I am full of passion”:
Weekly Missouri Democrat,
7/10/1866.

“I would feel rejoiced”: Quoted in Fellman,
Citizen Sherman,
68.

“I look on myself”: Quoted in Hart,
Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American,
49.

“You are rushing into war”: Quoted in Davis,
Sherman’s March
, 15.

“wore very common”: McConnell,
John D. Martin’s Journal
, 25.

“With his large frame”: Temple,
Campaigning with Grant
, 290.

“He is a very nervous man”: Bohrnstedt,
Soldiering with Sherman,
142.

“He twice rose”: Temple,
Campaigning with Grant
, 290.

“I’m too red-haired”: Quoted in Davis,
Sherman’s March,
5.

“To the casual observer”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman
, 421–422.

“Sherman was the professional”: Boyd,
Life of General…Sherman
, 9.

“Without being aware of it”: Quoted in Kennett,
Sherman,
240.

“Gen. Sherman”: Elliott, Diary and Letters, MHI.

“Every man”: Cutter, Letters, MHS.

“we felt as though”: Gross, Journal and Letters, MHI.

“The true way”: Quoted in Lewis,
Sherman,
434.

“War is the conflict”: Sherman, “Grand Strategy of the War,” 582.

“See the books”: Quoted in Hart,
Sherman,
309.

“No goths”/“too much looseness”: Quoted in Grimsley,
Hard Hand of War
, 63, 100.

“My idea of God”: Quoted in Brinsfield, “Military Ethics,” 46.

[The] northern people”: Ibid., 43.

“prospered beyond precedence”/“We veterans believe”: Sherman, “Grand Strategy of the War,” 583, 582.

“On earth”: Quoted in Bower, “Theology of the Battlefield,” 1015.

“Satan and the rebellious saints”: Quoted in Marszalek,
Sherman,
251. “army commanders”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:175.

“Even yet”/“If the United States”: Quoted in Force,
General Sherman,
252.

“endowed with intellect”: Quoted in Fellman,
Citizen Sherman,
147.

“We must
Kill
”: Quoted in Hirshson,
White Tecumseh,
240.

“The law is”: Quoted in Brinsfield, “Military Ethics,” 45.

“war is on our part”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
74.

“this fair land”: Quoted in Marszalek,
Sherman,
296.

“mobs, vigilance Committees”: Simpson and Berlin,
Sherman’s Civil War
, 755.

“is intensifying the greatest fault”: Quoted in Merrill,
William Tecumseh Sherman,
260.

“free press”:
Sherman,
“Grand Strategy of the War,” 592.

“I say with the press”: Quoted in Spore, “Sherman and the Press,” 2:31–35.

“As the press”: Ibid., 3:30.

“I would prefer”: Quoted in Fellman,
Citizen Sherman,
156.

“I have had the question”: Quoted in Merrill,
William Tecumseh Sherman,
253.

“I care not”: Simpson and Berlin,
Sherman’s Civil War
, 688.

“which party can whip”: Quoted in Bower, “Theology of the Battlefield,” 1024.

“when peace does come”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:127.

“My children”: Quoted in Fellman,
Citizen Sherman,
199.

“I do think”: Simpson and Berlin,
Sherman’s Civil War
, 791.

“If I have attained”: Howe,
Home Letters,
327.

“People write to me”: Quoted in Merrill,
William Tecumseh Sherman,
268.

“You might as well appeal”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:126.

“We have accepted the issue”: OR 39/2:248.

“Talk it over”: Simpson and Berlin,
Sherman’s Civil War,
688.

“To make war”: Quoted in Bower, “Theology of the Battlefield,” 1024.

CHAPTER 4. THE PLAN

“most spicy”:
New York Herald,
5/13/1875.

“‘cutting their way’”: Quoted in Boynton,
Sherman’s Historical Raid
, 160.

“I have no doubt”:
New York Times,
10/22/1883.

“knock Jos. Johnston”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:27.

“Atlanta is ours”/“The political skies”: Quoted in Castel,
Decision in the West,
534, 543.

“Now that we”: Quoted in Boynton,
Sherman’s Historical Raid,
143.

“not designed”/“studious and ingenious cruelty”: Quoted in Marszalek,
Sherman
, 285.

“it is kindness”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:120.

“this act of Sherman’s”: Quoted in Bailey,
War and Ruin
, 26, 44.

“If once in our possession”/“Either horn”: OR 39/2:412.

“spare the state”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:137.

“would have power”: Quoted in Parks,
Joseph E. Brown
, 296–97.

“may stand”: OR 39/2:412.

“why will it not do”/“It will be”: OR 39/3:3, 162.

“We were as brothers”: Sherman, “Grand Strategy of the War,” 593.

“He stood by me”: Quoted in Glatthaar,
Partners in Command
, 135.

“This may not be war”: Quoted in Davis,
Sherman’s March
, 25.

“Hood may turn”/“If there is any way”/“feels much solicitude”: OR 39/3:202, 222.

“On mature reflection”: OR 39/3:239–40.

“Your friends”: Quoted in Kennett,
Sherman,
259.

“You may count”: OR 39/3:240.

“I want the first positive”: OR 39/3:311, 333, 324–25, 357–8.

“Damn Hood!”: Quoted in Hirshson,
White Tecumseh,
246.

“1,500,000 rations” “If you can defend”/“By this I propose”: OR 39/3:370, 365, 377–78.

“I feel perfectly master”/“Go on”: OR 39/3:395, 406, 408.

“All Georgia is now open”/“I must leave it to you”/“will enable him to hold”: OR 39/3:408, 449, 661.

“Do you not think”: OR 39/3:576, 581, 594.

“With the force”/“you may look”/“Sherman’s army”: OR 39/3:594, 596, 727.

“I hope we shall be ready”/“I have made great”: OR 39/3:600, 613–14, 618, 740, 756.

“I answered”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:169.

“Free and glorious”: Quoted in Miers,
General Who Marched
, 218.

“The expedition”: Quoted in Hart,
Sherman,
225.

“I have no hesitation”/“When the provisions”: Quoted in Marszalek,
Sherman,
254, 251.