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“on sandy roads”: Ibid., 107.

“one of the most”: Ibid., 109–10.

“runs through a dismal”: Marvin,
Fifth Regiment,
356.

“We tried various modes”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.

“The troops moved”: Byrne,
Uncommon Soldiers,
270.

“I think the Div[ision]”:
Reminiscences of the Civil War,
166.

“wilderness. It is all”: Glossbrenner, Diary, MHI.

“In making the order”: Harwell and Racine,
Fiery Trail,
61.

“Colonel Adams”: Chamberlin,
History,
151.

“These roads are generally”: Harwell and Racine,
Fiery Trail,
61.

“men immediately fell in”: OR 44:317.

“Hang onto it”: Lockhart, “Civil War Memoir,” WHS.

“Large quantities of stores”: Duncan, Papers, NJH.

“foragers got lots of stuff”: Saylor, Letter, WHS.

“must have lived”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.

“Here we had to lay”: Buckingham, Papers, AAS.

“pontoniers and pioneers”: OR 44:326.

“The facility in crossing”: Brant,
History of the Eighty-fifth,
81.

“I…was probably”: Angle,
Three Years,
329.

“crossed the river”: Johnson, “March to the Sea,” 322.

“a deep stream”: Woodard,
Civil War Letters,
20.

“It was a very long”: Emmons, Diaries, UIA.

“The boys made quite”: Brower,
Foragin’,
28.

“Books, clothing, cutlery”: Pendergast, Family Papers, MHS.

“One fellow played”: Porter, Diary, OHS.

“We burnt some”: Essington, Diary, ISL.

“I never can sanction”: Emmons, Diaries, UIA.

“I [am] getting ashamed”: Quoted in DeLaubenfels, “Where Sherman Passed,” 297.

“before night”: OR 44:164.

“old general”: Williams, Diary, IU.

“General Davis then summoned”: Widney, Diary and Letters, KNP.

“so much so”:
New York Herald,
12/9/1864.

“seeing that he was cut off”:
National Tribune,
5/17/1883.

“not twenty-five yards”:
Philadelphia Inquirer,
12/23/1864.

“only hard fighting”:
New York Herald,
12/9/1864.

“I have to this day”:
National Tribune,
9/10/1903.

“As company after company”:
National Tribune,
9/20/1903.

“Is this the rear guard”: Ibid.

“boys, make you some coffee”: Ward, Diary, IHS.

“I…took up”: OR 44:364.

“put about 100”:
National Tribune,
11/26/1903.

“By the side”:
92nd Illinois Volunteers,
186–87.

“Colonel, you are disgracing”: Ibid.

“night was fast”: OR 44:409.

“Reaching the open”:
Confederate Veteran,
11:354.

“with great fierceness”: Miller, “We Scattered,” 45.

“they made charge”:
National Tribune,
2/25/1904.

“shot in seven”: Berkenes,
Private William Boddy,
155.

“The rebels seemed”:
National Tribune,
11/26/1903.

“We fought General Kilpatrick”: OR 44:910.

“It was a night”:
National Tribune,
5/17/1883.

“We are very tired”: Ward, Diary, IHS.

“It proved to be”: Angle,
Three Years,
331.

“saw the line of blue”: Ibid., 332.

“This is one of the times”: Johnson, “March to the Sea,” 324.

“I can assure you”:
National Tribune,
11/26/1903.

“about one day’s march”: OR 44:9.

“learn definitely”: OR 44:572.

“pacing to and fro”: Cryder and Stanley,
“War for the Union,”
460.

“Yes, it is very good land”: Christie, Family Papers, MHS.

“been brought up”/“Please, Sir”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
114–15.

“bare feet in slippers”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
112–13.

“The country from Atlanta”: Belknap,
Fifteenth Regiment,
413.

“All day in an awful”:
Reminiscences of the Civil War,
160.

“Trees tall and stately”: Hubert,
Fiftieth Regiment,
326.

“Only saw three houses”: Platter, “Civil War Diary,” UGA.

“Poor people live here”: Scheel,
Rain, Mud & Swamps,
469.

“found the refugees’”: Corbin,
Star for Patriotism
, 160.

“got 60 horses”: Unknown Diarist, SHI.

“It was more of a shock”: Hubert,
History of the Fiftieth Regiment,
326.

“Had to make right angle”: Burton, Diary, EU.

“Our course is marked”: Dunkelman and Winey,
Hardtack Regiment,
127.

“The marching by the side”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.

“Burned it”: Morgan, Diary, MHI.

“Hung an old man”: Trego, Diary, CHI.

“It is really heart-rending”: Winkler, Letters, 10.

“But as we were filling”: Ladd, “From Atlanta to the Sea,” 9.

“Col. [James W.] Langley”: Ross, Diary, ALL.

“is just now playing”: Porter, Diary, OHS.

“about December 1”: OR 39/3:740.

“Every place we come to”: Brockman, “John Van Duser Diary,” 229–30.

“There are not many rebels”: Rosenow,
Pen Pictures,
107.

“As we filed up the road”/“all shot through the head”: Ross, Diary, ALL.

“foragers are circumscribed”: OR 44:582.

“Any quantity of forage”: Hapeman, Diary, ALL.

“The negroes had a grand jubilee”: Calkins,
One Hundred and Fourth Regiment,
265.

“Thousands of colored people”: Morhous,
Reminiscences,
141.

“Supposed to be”: Morrow, Diary, MHI.

“roads a complete wilderness”: Scheel,
Rain, Mud & Swamps,
469.

“during that whole distance”: Platter, “Civil War Diary,” UGA.

“This is the first music”:
Reminiscences of the Civil War,
161.

“Have to make our roads”: Keyes, Diary, MHI.

“The sloughs are called creeks”: Jackson,
Colonel’s Diary,
167.

“The roads are desperate”: Ambrose,
Seventh Regiment,
281.

“Listen Miss Sue”: Sample plantation incident in Jones,
When Sherman Came,
46–47.

“The railroad bridge”: Hickenlooper, Collection, CIN.

“wagons, footmen and horsemen”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
117.

Johnny Wells: Ibid., 119; Nichols,
Story of the Great March,
74–75; Brockman, “John Van Duser Diary,” 229.

“in case you hear”: OR 44:581.

“within three miles of Millen”: OR 44:578.

“crossing by light of fires”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
118.

“A novel and vivid sight”: Quoted in
New York Times,
12/23/1864.

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“in the direction of Augusta”: OR 44:9.

“to cover the movements”: OR 44:364.

“The General pointed”: Angle,
Three Years,
333–34.

“Sherman didn’t know”: Ibid., 334.

“fought us”: Ward, Diary, IHS.

“nothing save bulldog fighting”: OR 44:385.

“We then moved rapidly”: OR 44:598.

“Here, I’ll give this to you”: Quoted in Durden,
History,
77.

“What kind of folks”: Jones,
When Sherman Came,
49–59.

“Broke camp at 7”: Jamison,
Recollections,
282.

“The rail was of”: Hedley,
Marching through Georgia,
320.

“heated in the middle”: Fultz, “History of Company D,” 76.

“The practice of indiscriminate”: OR 44:596.

“On the 1st”: Canfield,
21st Regiment,
176.

“Rebels…captured”: Clark Diaries, LHS.

“numbering thirty-two”: OR 44:172.

“said to be”: Lybarger,
Leaves,
2.

“Come, Come, Come”: Morrow, Diary, MHI.

“This was a busy day”: Trimble,
Ninety-Third Regiment,
148.

“We…have to wade”: Schaum, Diary, DU.

“substantially parallel to”: OR 44:84.

“American scorpions”: Saunier,
History,
358.

“the foragers coming in”: Unknown Diarist, in Sherman Papers, LOC.

“The beds were torn”: Sample plantation incidents in Jones,
When Sherman Came,
46–47.

“with great caution”: OR 44:593.

“cover the enemy’s front”: OR 44:916.

“took the trouble”: Brockman, “John Van Duser Diary,” 229.

“sick in bed”/“rather hang-dog”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
124–25.

“have been entirely satisfactory”: OR 44:601.

“well together”: Jackson,
Colonel’s Diary,
167.

“men across the creek”/“We would set a hive”: Jackson,
Colonel’s Diary,
168.

“Some of the boys”: Cryder and Stanley, “
War for the Union,
” 460.

“The railroad”: Lybarger,
Leaves
, 2.

“We had to wade”: Schweitzer, Diary, MHI.

“The roads very bad”: Osborn, Diary, MHI.

“What is the news?”: Lonergan telegraph incident in OR 44:604.

“While soul stirring music”: Burton, Diary, EU.

“We now considered”: Widney foraging incident in
National Tribune,
3/20/1902.

“Commenced skirmishing”/“our movement was slow”: Angle,
Three Years,
336, 337.

“We have had sharp”: Ward Diary, IHS.

“a lively, rollicking”: Angle,
Three Years,
339.

“We made them fly”: Eisenhower, Diary, MHI.

“He also told us”: Angle,
Three Years,
339.

“If we get any communication”: Angle,
Three Years,
339.

“No, Sir”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
128.

“continue to march”: OR 44:609.

“The fewer the men”: OR 44:602.

“would cut my rear”: OR 53:35.

“There we must cross”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
136.

“the whole army”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:193.

“There was a forage party”: Glossbrenner, Diary, MHI.

“He was buried”: Duke,
Fifty-third Regiment,
166.

“how terrible the sweep”: Ambrose,
Seventh Regiment,
282.

“At Millen”: Wescott, Papers, WHS.

“Broke camp at daylight”: Jamison,
Recollections,
284.

“Having stacked arms”: Grunert,
History,
139.

“Visited the Stockades”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.

“The prisoners were compelled”: Potter,
Reminiscences,
114.

“The huts were built”: Bradley,
Star Corps,
203.

“There was not a soul”: Bauer,
Soldiering,
193–94.

“We saw one”: Hoerner,
Chattanooga, Savannah and Alexandria,
41.

“We found the bodies”: Anderson,
They Died,
238–39.

“was to make the”: Jackson,
Colonel’s Diary,
169.

“Got lost”: Emmons, Diaries, UIA.

“Moved at 6
A.M
.”: Reeve, Papers, WHS.

“In a raw state”: Otto, “Civil War Memoirs,” WHS.

“While crossing the pontoon”: McAdams,
Every-day Soldier Life,
121.

“can do nothing”: Quoted in Hughes and Whitney,
Jefferson Davis in Blue,
157.

“Nothing could induce”:
Quincy Daily Whig & Republican,
1/6/1865.

“were left on the wrong side”: OR 44:184.

“very plain”: Jackson,
Colonel’s Diary,
169.

“most incomprehensible”: Pittenger, Diary, OHS.

“At Millen I learned”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:193.

“are to move up”: Angle,
Three Years,
343.

“to send surplus”: OR 44:364.

“Roads good generally”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
137.

“passed ‘Uncle Billy’”: Jamison,
Recollections,
285.

“was fordable above us”/“Skirmishing began”: OR 53:35–36.

“must have seen”: Sherman,
Memoirs
, 2:193.

“exhausted but lively”: Force, Papers, UWA.

“on a large plantation”:
National Tribune,
6/6/1901.

“We could see the smoke”: Roe, Papers, KNX.

“Almost all of the people”: Kellogg,
Army Life,
331.

“Went into camp”: Gay, Diary, SHI.

“kept wrathfully blackguarding”:
Fifty-fifth Regiment
, 395.

“They loaded their wagons”: Quoted in Brannen,
Life in Old Bulloch,
51–52.

“bought used coffee”: Ibid., 51.

“swamp, swampy, swampier”: Parmater, Diary, OHS.