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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 5.35 (search)
treme delicacy to the conduct of that other campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta, Savannah, and Raleigh, which with liberal discretion was committed to me by General Grant in his minute instructions on by General Grant, the March to the sea, with its necessary corollary, the march northward to Raleigh, became vastly important, if not actually conclusive of the war. Mr. Lincoln was the wisest manhe whole, Hood's army, and retaining for myself enough to march to the sea, and thence north to Raleigh, in communication with the old Army of the Potomac which had so long and heroically fought for believe that the grand march of the Western army from Atlanta to Savannah, and from Savannah to Raleigh, was an important factor in the final result, the overwhelming victory at Appomattox, and the gy at Richmond. When I reached Goldsboro‘, made junction. with Schofield, and moved forward to Raleigh, I was willing to encounter the entire Confederate army; but the Confederate armies--Lee's in R
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Sherman's march from Savannah to Bentonville. (search)
th, Sherman said: I had expected, after reducing Savannah, instantly to march to Columbia, South Carolina, thence to Raleigh, and then to report to you. The fall of Savannah resulted in the adoption of the plan which Sherman had contemplated The Fourteenth Corps entering Fayetteville. From a sketch made at the time. Our march to this point had been toward Raleigh. We now took the road leading to Goldsboro. General Sherman rode with me on the 18th and left me at 6 A. M. on the 19ton roads several miles to our right. On leaving me General Sherman expressed the opinion that Hardee had fallen back to Raleigh, and that I could easily reach the Neuse River on the following day. I felt confident I could accomplish the task. We mthe entire day was spent in skirmishing. During the night of the 21st the enemy crossed Mill Creek and retreated toward Raleigh. The plans of the enemy to surprise us and destroy our army in detail were well formed and well executed, and would hav
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 18.113 (search)
o find that General Johnston had retreated to Raleigh. On the 12th, while on the march to Raleigh,Raleigh, some person on horseback came riding up the road crying to the men as he passed, Grant has capturen were to be found along the roads leading to Raleigh. On the 13th we passed through Raleigh andRaleigh and encamped within three or four miles of the city. Kilpatrick's cavalry followed the retreating enemy about twenty-five miles beyond Raleigh and went into camp at Durham Station, on the road toward for the following day. Sherman returned to Raleigh and issued an order announcing the assassinat President Johnson, and General Grant came to Raleigh. A copy of the memorandum of the 18th was och Falconer, A. A.-G. During our stay in Raleigh I witnessed a scene which to me was one of th via Richmond. On the evening before we left Raleigh the mails from the North arrived, and with thChattanooga, Atlanta, Savannah, Columbia, and Raleigh to the point which, during the first two year[1 more...]