Identifier: lifedeedsofgener01nort (find matches)
Title: Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea ..
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
Publisher: Boston, Mass., Providence, R.I., Gately & O'Gorman
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ould not have attained our presentpositions. **We Foiig-lit and Held our Ground.*We followed the line—the second line—and thencame the landing of forces at Pittsburg Landing.Whether it was a mistake in landing them on thewest instead of the east bank it is not necessary nowto discuss. I think it was not a mistake. There wasgathered the first great army of the West, commen-cing with only twelve thousand, then twenty thousand,then thirty thousand, and we had about thirty-eightthousand in that battle, and all I claim for that is thatit was a contest for manhood. Tliere was no strategy.Grant was there and others of us, all young at thattime and unknovv^n men, but our enemy was old, andSidney Johnson, whom all the officers remembered asa power among the old officers, high above Grant,myself, or anybody else, led the enemy on that batde-field, and I almost wonder how we conquered. But,as I remarked, it was a contest for manhood—man toman—soldier to soldier. We fought and we held our
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62 GENERAL SHERMAN. ground, and therefore accounted ourselves victorious.From that time forward we had with us the prestige;that battle was worth millions and millions to us byreason of the fact of the courage displayed by thebrave soldiers on that occasion, and from that time tothis I never heard of the first want of courage on thepart of our Northern soldiers. Sherman counted the war virtually ended whenVicksburg was taken and the Mississippi ran un-vexed to the sea; but the Confederates would nothave it so, and there had to be more fighting. Jeffer-son Davis had the Southerners well trained, and herefused to ratify the work of the Union armies, beingvexatiously obstinate. Movements against Vicksburg-. In November, Sherman was assigned to the com-mand of the right wing of the Army of the Tennes-see, and conducted an expedition threatening theenemys rear south of the Tallahatchie River, andenabled General Grant to occupy the position withouta fight. In December he, having returned to

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