The Siege of Savannah in December, 1864, and the Confederate Operations in Georgia and the Third Military District of South...

The Siege of Savannah in December, 1864, and the Confederate Operations in Georgia and the Third Military District of South...
ISBN-10
1331000823
ISBN-13
9781331000822
Category
History / Military / General
Pages
200
Language
English
Published
2015-07-08
Publisher
1kg Limited
Author
Charles Colcock Jones

Description

Excerpt from The Siege of Savannah in December, 1864, and the Confederate Operations in Georgia and the Third Military District of South Carolina During General Sherman's March From Atlanta to the Sea

T'o perpetuate the Confederate memories con nected With the march of General Sherman from Atlanta, to Savannah is the design of the following pages. To be guided in all that he relates by the genuine circumstances of the action has been the author's care. This sad chapter in the history of Georgia, has been written only by those Who made light of her afflictions, laughed at her calamities, gloated over her losses, and landed her spoilers. A predatory expedition, inaugurated With full knowledge of her weakness, conceived in a, spirit of wanton destruction, conducted in Violation of the rules of civilized warfare, and compassed in the fape of feeble resistance, has been mag nified into a grand military achievement wor thy of all admiration. The easy march of a well appointed army of seventy thousand men through the heart of a state abounding in every supplysave men and materials of war and at the most delightful season of the year, has been so talked of and written about by those Who either partici pated in the enterprise or sympathized With its leaders, that multitudes have come to regard this holiday excursion as a triumph of consummate military skill and valor as one of the most won.

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