Southern Storm (91 page)

“upon one of the thread-like”: Force, Papers, UWA.

“He was a fine officer”: Rood,
Story of the Service,
376.

“without opposition”: Bryant,
History,
297.

“If they had had their guns”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.

“The rebs made but little”: Hinkley, Papers, WHS.

“exceeded…[my] instructions”/“the contest became severe”: Carmen, “General Hardee’s Escape,” 202.

“It was known”: Toombs,
Reminiscences,
185.

“We came right across”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.

“had some severe work”: Kendall, Diary and Letters, CHS.

“line nearly two”: OR 44:762.

“I had not reached”: Carmen, “General Hardee’s Escape,” 203.

“Gentlemen, this is not”: Quoted in Lawrence,
Present for Mr. Lincoln,
198–99.

“a general rush”:
Milwaukee Daily Sentinel,
1/5/1906.

“represented the matter”: Sherman,
Memoirs,
2:216–17.

“off the only”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
198.

“lines of army wagons”: Summerell, “General Hardee Evacuates Savannah,” 5.

“Very few of the citizens”: Quoted in
New York Herald,
1/7/1865.

“became quite incensed”:
Philadelphia Weekly Times,
11/21/1885.

“Our batteries were awake”: Roe, Papers, KNX.

“have kept up”: Unknown Diarist, SHI.

“On account of getting so many”: Parmater, Diary, OHS.

“Heavy cannonading”: Dunbar, Diary, BHS.

“This intimation”: Kurtz, “War Diary,” 83–84.

“opened on our positions”: Carmen, Papers, NJH.

“From one portion of our line”: Hinkley, Papers, WHS.

“could see wagons”: Carmen, “General Hardee’s Escape,” 205.

“crowd of women”:
Philadelphia Weekly Times,
11/21/1885.

“busy burning”: Jones,
When Sherman Came,
86.

“Sherman had burned Atlanta”: Summerell, “General Hardee Evacuates Savannah,” 5.

“Sick of war”: Anderson,
Civil War Diary,
184.

“There has been a rumor”: Bradley,
Star Corps,
213–14.

“that the enemy had completed”: OR 44:279.

“lost considerable time”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
198.

“light batteries will…be withdrawn”: OR 44:967.

“It is feared”: McAdams,
Every-day Soldier Life,
126–27.

“I feel a cold shiver”: Otto,
Civil War Memoirs,
WHS.

“When we came to think”: Rood,
Story of the Service,
378.

“I have no words”: Graves, Letters, UDC.

“Men, women and children”:
Savannah Morning News,
12/25/1932.

“The shelling to-night”: Wagoner, “From Wauhatchie,” 125.

“opened their batteries”:
National Tribune,
2/11/1915.

“a severe artillery fire”: Quoted in Schmidt,
Civil War History,
1069.

“By reason of the lack”: Jones,
Siege of Savannah,
162.

“Our camp fires”: Fort, “History,” MHI.

“Since my father”: Mendel, “Sketch,” UDC.

“lined by the great live oak”: Clark,
Histories,
4:322.

“I can’t describe”: Quoted in Lawrence,
Present for Mr. Lincoln,
201.

“The scene of our army”: Fort, “History,” MHI.

“As we passed through”:
Atlanta Journal,
8/16/1902.

“night was exceedingly dark”: Kurtz, “War Diary,” 84.

“the curses and yells”: Carmen, Papers, NJH.

“to parts unknown”: Quoted in Lawrence,
Present for Mr. Lincoln,
199–200.

“fell into the long line”: Graves, Letters, UDC.

“constant tread”: Elliott, Letters, SHC.

“after getting something to eat”:
National Tribune,
7/18/1883.

“answered their calls”:
National Tribune,
7/8/1915.

“crawled up to their works”:
National Tribune,
7/21/1892.

“forward rapidly”: OR 44:279.

“Soon we met”:
National Tribune,
7/21/1892.

“Just outside”: OR 44:280.

“Sir: The city of Savannah”: OR 44:772.

“some were still linked”: Summerell, “General Hardee Evacuates Savannah,” 7.

“We rushed”:
National Tribune,
7/21/1892.

“We entered the city”: Engle, Letters.

“he took formal possession”: OR 44:319.

“every flag”: Rey, Letters, NYH.

“We passed through”: Parmater Diary, OHS.

“Oh, Miss!”/“three very orderly”: King, “Fanny Cohen’s Journal,” 410.

“By the fortunes of war”: Quoted in Lawrence,
Present for Mr. Lincoln,
208.

“the old flag”:
National Tribune,
10/25/1900.

“took position”: OR 44:355.

“tried to behave ourselves”: Levings, Papers, WHS.

“the white women”: McKee, Diary, SHI.

“The people of Savannah seemed”:
Lancaster Daily Evening Express,
1/3/1865.

“the channel was so narrow”: ORN, 16:362.

“My eventful career”: Blair,
Politician Goes to War,
219.

“protect all peaceable persons”: OR 44:782.

“I saw some”: Merrill,
Seventieth Indiana,
232.

“Dear General”: OR 44:771.

“A great danger”: Kaminsky,
War to Petrify,
275.

“the last man”: Carmen, Papers, NJH.

“It lit the heavens”: Quoted in Smith,
Civil War Savannah,
196.

“it made a fearful”: Platter, “Civil War Diary,” UGA.

“grocery cellars”: Wheeler, Letters and Journal, ALL.

“The boys got plenty”: Stauffer, “Civil War Diary,” n.p.

“The rebels left everything”:
Chicago Evening Journal,
1/10/1865.

“Took dinner”: McLean, Family Papers, NYL.

“heartily sick of the war”: Padgett, “With Sherman through Georgia,” 62.

“There are eight”: Frances Howard incident in Jones,
When Sherman Came,
87.

“The navy-yard”: Sherman,
Memoirs,
2:217.

“As I feared”: Lamar, Papers, GSA.

“You can form no”: Anderson, Letter, EU.

“When the morning light”: Quoted in Drago, “How Sherman’s March,” 364.

“so the rising and falling”: Hight and Stormont,
Fifty-eighth Regiment,
442.

“The amount of property”: Mead Papers, LOC.

“depots of the Savannah and Gulf”:
New York Herald,
12/30/1864.

“They looked tired”: Frances Howard incident in Jones,
When Sherman Came,
87–88.

“General Sherman, the bravest”:
Chicago Evening Journal,
1/10/1865.

“I…feel as if”: Roe, Papers, KNX.

“Savannah has fallen!”: Hurlbut, Letters, KNP.

“I beg to present you”: Sherman,
Memoirs,
2:231.

CHAPTER 22. “BUT WHAT NEXT?”

“All hands are working”: Hinkley, Papers, WHS.

“Nails had been collected”: Grunert,
History,
160.

“The lovely square”/“noble Geary”: Quoted in Lawrence,
Present for Mr. Lincoln,
213–14.

“All of our Squares”: Quoted in Smith,
Civil War Savannah,
219.

“activated by no motives”: Quoted in Lawrence,
Present for Mr. Lincoln,
213–14.

“spectacle of humbled”: Blair,
Politician Goes to War,
220.

“In fact, 24 hours”:
National Tribune,
9/12/1901.

“On the street”:
Cincinnati Daily Commercial,
1/1/1865.

“things that seemed hard for us”: Quoted in Lawrence,
Present for Mr. Lincoln,
224.

“They are all astonished”: Hutchinson, Papers, LSU.

“Where resistance is hopeless”: Quoted in Dyer, “Northern Relief for Savannah,” 460–61.

“Do you think”: Quoted in Lawrence,
Present for Mr. Lincoln,
229.

“Oh it is a crying shame”: Ibid., 219.

“The proceedings will be used”: Miers,
Rebel War Clerk’s Diary,
476.

“If there is one sink lower”: Quoted in Lawrence,
Present for Mr. Lincoln,
219.

“No provision has been made”: OR 44:800.

“The city is beautifully laid out”:
National Tribune,
9/12/1901.

“Many of the parks”:
National Tribune,
6/20/1901.

“Every alternate square”: Baker, Memoir, ALL.

“a place of somber beauty”: Willison,
Reminiscences,
105.

“wonderful spring”: Stelle,
1861 to 1865,
22.

“The guns, the shot”: Hight and Stormont,
Fifty-eighth Regiment,
446.

“have been exposing”: Quoted in Lawrence,
Present for Mr. Lincoln,
231.

“one of the theaters”: Tallman, Memoir, MHI.

“One thing I must mention”: Stelle,
1861 to 1865,
22.

“Oh the wickedness”: Dillon, Letters, ALL.

“Thousands of soldiers”: Floyd,
History of the Seventy-fifth,
360.

“Our squad was well provided”: Bean, Diary, SHC.

“There is a hundred and twenty men”: Rattenbury,
From Wisconsin to the Sea,
81.

“Listen to the
menu
”: Kerr, “From Atlanta to Raleigh,” 217.

“There was quite a lot of citizens”: Dunbar, Diary, BHS.

“delightful entente cordiale”/“the tastiest Secesh”: Quoted in Smith,
Civil War Savannah,
224–25.

“Each little knot”: Quoted in Wheeler,
Sherman’s March,
142.

“There is the most hoars”: Quoted in Lawrence,
Present for Mr. Lincoln,
214.

“the best joke”:
Lancaster Daily Evening Express,
1/3/1865.

“a rebel blockade runner”: Quoted in Wheeler,
Sherman’s March,
144.

“They did not find out”: Grunert,
History,
163.

“She was a long”: Hubert,
Fiftieth Regiment,
348.

“While I am writing this”: Stone, “Civil War Letter,” 66.

“Quite a joke”: Emmons, Diaries, UIA.

“cleaned our quarters”: Buerstatte, “Civil War Diary.”

“I saw one hundred dollar”: Brant,
History of the Eighty-fifth,
88–89.

“It did not seem”: Farwell, Papers, SHI.

“witnessed the imposing”: Quoted in Schmidt,
Civil War History,
1078.

“rice boiled in water”: Glossbrenner, Diary, MHI.

“most awful lonesome”: Utterback, Diary, SHI.

“rather a dull Christmas”: Engerud,
1864 Diary,
53.

“Had a Review today”: Gore, Diary, MHI.

“The arms glistened”: Brown,
Fourth Regiment,
354.

“The troops made”: Inskeep, Diary, OHS.

“Uncle Billy’s dolled”: Quoted in Lawrence,
Present for Mr. Lincoln,
230.

“is a keen looking man”: Corbin, Letters, MHI.

“The Generals looked well”: Daniels, Diary, HL.

“‘Uncle Billy’ is the pet”: Marvin,
Fifth Regiment,
364.

“Gen. Sherman was very much”: Duncan, Papers, NJH.

“Gen’l Sherman himself”: Harwell and Racine,
Fiery Trail,
185.

“They call us”: Quaife,
From the Cannon’s Mouth,
355.

“We went to the sity”: Rowell,
Yankee Cavalrymen,
218.

“did very well”: McLean, Family Papers, NYL.

“a splendid sight”: Dunbar, Diary, BHS.

“Such a march”: Andrews,
Footprints,
155.

“up a tale of disaster”: Younger,
Inside the Confederate Government,
181.

“Therefore it struck me”: Sherman,
Memoirs,
2:236.

“but when I ask”/“I treat an English subject”: Simpson and Berlin,
Sherman’s Civil War,
778.

“was not a man in his army”: Hodgson, Journal, UGA.

“I would not be surprised”: Howe,
Home Letters,
330.

“A single mistake” (footnote): Ibid., 329.

“elegant & splendidly furnished”: Simpson and Berlin,
Sherman’s Civil War,
778.

“gone to join Willy”: Quoted in Hirshson,
White Tecumseh,
268.

“It would amuse you to see”: Simpson and Berlin,
Sherman’s Civil War,
778.

“Frequently they come in”: Howe,
Marching with Sherman,
202.

“manifested an almost
criminal
dislike”: Sherman,
Memoirs,
2:247–48.

“You are understood”: Quoted in Fellman,
Citizen Sherman,
163.

“approaching Savannah I had”: Simpson and Berlin,
Sherman’s Civil War,
794–95.

“But the nigger?”: Ibid.