Memoirs by William Tecumseh Sherman

Author:William Tecumseh Sherman [Sherman, William Tecumseh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, United States, Civil War Period (1850-1877)
ISBN: 9781101177242
Google: MnRfGpIUGj8C
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1990-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Major-General MCPHERSON, commanding Army of the Tennessee, Sugar Valley, Georgia.

GENERAL: I received by courier (in the night) yours of 5 and 6:30 P.M. of yesterday.

MAP N°1 ATLANTA CAMPAIGN.

You now have your twenty-three thousand men, and General Hooker is in close support, so that you can hold all of Jos. Johnston’s army in check should he abandon Dalton. He cannot afford to abandon Dalton, for he has fixed it up on purpose to receive us, and he observes that we are close at hand, waiting for him to quit. He cannot afford a detachment strong enough to fight you, as his army will not admit of it.

Strengthen your position; fight any thing that comes; and threaten the safety of the railroad all the time. But, to tell the truth, I would rather the enemy would stay in Dalton two more days, when he may find in his rear a larger party than he expects in an open field. At all events, we can then choose our own ground, and he will be forced to move out of his works. I do not intend to put a column into Buzzard-Roost Gap at present.

See that you are in easy communication with me and with all headquarters. After to-day the supplies will be at Ringgold. Yours,

W. T. SHERMAN, Major-General commanding.

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