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The officers retained their side-arms, and the men, leaving their rifles, took with them not only such horses and mules as they still had with them connected with the cavalry or artillery, but also a number of horses and mules which had been captured by Sherman's army and which had not yet been placed on the United States army roster.
As Sherman's army forged to the South west on its flanking movement, the battery was withdrawn, and on May 15th, next faced the enemy in a field of green wheat on the Oastenaula river, below the railroad bridge at Resaca, 18 miles south of Dalton, on the day of McPherson's attack at that point, but did not get to fire a shot.
Columbia was reached the middle of the month. It caught fire just how has never been settled and the greater part of the city was destroyed. Sherman's men helped to put out the flames, and left behind provisions and a herd of five hundred cattle for the suffering inhabitants. The army pushed on toward North Carolina, destroying railroads as it went. Johnston was athwart their path with 30,000 men.
He was checked at Goldsborough after the battle of Bentonville and it was at Goldsborough that the last important force of the Confederacy was surrendered. We soldiers learned only later some of the complications that preceded that surrender. President Davis and his associates in the Confederate government had, with one exception, made their way south, passing to the west of Sherman's advance.
Driven out of Missouri and North Arkansas. New Orleans taken. Mississippi River nearly open. Vicksburg and Port Hudson taken, and Mississippi River open to the Gulf. The Confederacy cut in two. Arkansas and East Tennessee recovered. Driving the Confederate line eastward. Sherman's march to Atlanta; to the sea. The Confederacy again cut in two. Driving the Confederate line northward.
He took advantage of the information they gave, and made all the preparation possible for him to make to meet what now became expected, attempts to break his communications. Something else had to be done: and to Sherman's sensible and soldierly mind the idea was not long in dawning upon him, not only that something else had to be done, but what that something else should be.
Remove your negroes, horses, cattle, and provisions from Sherman's army, and burn what you cannot carry. Burn all bridges, and block up the roads in his route. Assail the invader in front, flank, and rear, by night and by day. Let him have no rest. Members of Congress. Of course, we were rather amused than alarmed at these threats, and made light of the feeble opposition offered to our progress.
The enemy, once brought face to face with Sherman's men, departed abruptly; and soon the doughty general, mounted on an old gray horse, came riding down to the edge of the bayou, for a word with Porter. Seeing the admiral on the deck of his gunboat, he shouted out, "Hallo! Porter, what did you get into such an ugly scrape for? So much for you navy fellows getting out of your element.
It was along these two roads that three divisions of McClernand's corps, and Blair of Sherman's, temporarily under McClernand, were moving. Hovey of McClernand's command was with McPherson, farther north on the road from Bolton direct to Edward's station.
The best answer is General Sherman's present position, and the valuable services he is rendering to the country. I have the fullest confidence in him. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, H. W. HALLECK, Major-General. On returning to St.
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