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William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 11: (search)
nce of Longstreet in East Tennessee it will be impossible to attempt any movement from your present position while he remains. The great number of veterans now absent and yet to be furloughed will be another difficulty in the way of any movement this Winter. Sherman, however, will be able to collect about twenty thousand men from that part of his command now along the Mississippi River available for a movement eastward from Vicksburg. He expects to have these ready to start about the 24th inst. He will proceed eastward as far as Meridan, at least, and will thoroughly destroy the roads east and south from there, and, if possible, will throw troops as far east as Selma; or if he finds Mobile so far unguarded as to make his force sufficient for the enterprise, will go there. To cooperate with this movement, you want to keep up appearances of preparation of an advance from Chattanooga. It may be necessary even to move a column as far as Lafayette. The time for the advance, howev
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 12: (search)
nt had telegraphed Thomas: War Department, December 15, 1864. Major-General Thomas, Nashville. I rejoice in tendering to you and the gallant officers and soldiers of your command the thanks of this department for the brilliant achievements of this day, and hope that it is the harbinger of a decisive victory that will crown you and your army with honor, and do much toward closing the war. We shall give you a hundred guns to-morrow. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. On the 24th Mr. Stanton had notified Thomas of his nomination as a Major-General in the regular army for the recent brilliant military operations under his command, and expressed the opinion that no one has more justly earned promotion by devoted, disinterested, and valuable services to his country. On the 18th of December, in a letter to Sherman of warm congratulation over the success of the march to Savannah, General Grant added: my dear General: * * * * If you capture the garrison of Savannah i
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 17: (search)
Both the Confederate and National Cabinets held a consultation over Sherman's terms on the same day, the former at Charlotte, North Carolina, and the latter at Washington. All the members of President Davis' Cabinet advised him to accept the terms; all the Cabinet officers at Washington advised that they be rejected. General Johnston thus relates what occurred at his headquarters upon the receipt of information that the terms had been rejected at Washington: In the afternoon of the 24th, the President of the Confederacy, then in Charlotte, communicated to me, by telegraph, his approval of the terms of the Convention of the 17th and 18th, and, within an hour, a special messenger from General Hampton brought me two dispatches from General Sherman. In one of them he informed me that the Government of the United States rejected the terms of peace agreed upon by us; and in the other he gave notice of the termination of the armistice in forty-eight hours from noon that day. Th