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FORT M’ALLISTEB.
How Sherman Took It, Afier
the March to the Sea.
FIGHT AT GBISWOLDSVILLE
Setting Fire to a “’ell—Unknown Unio-
Dead Buried “in Batches of Fifty“ n.
the Confederate Prison of Milieu—H.-
zen's Gallant Assault.
The only fight of any importance that oc-
curred during Sherman’s march to the sea, a
quarter century ago, was the battle of Gris
woldsville, Nov. 22, 1864.
A Confederate division of Georgia militia,
under Brig. Gen. Phillips, was marching
past Griswoldsvllle towards Gordon. Gen.
C. R. Wood’s division of the Fifteenth corps
of Howard’s army was at Griswoldsville.
Walcott’s brigade was the rear guard of
Union right wing. Phillips attacked Wal-
oott’s brigade. Phillips only retreated after
several hours’ fighting. He lost 600 in killed
and wounded. The Confederate Gen. Ander-
son was wounded. W'alcott lost 94. He
himself received a severe wound.
Hardee’s then ordered \Vheeler to move
in front of Sherman,
roads on his ad vancc, and delay and burns
himasmucli as possible. Wheeler accord-
ingly went to Saudersville Nov. 26. Kil-
patrick‘s cavalry was then detached co the
Union left and front. Nov. 26 the left wing
reached Saudersvillc. A negro was brought
to Sherman to give him information. The
man was from ‘Tcnillc, six miles south d
Sandcl'sville.
“Are there any Yankees there?" asked
Sherman.
“Yes,” replied the lll‘lil; “first there come
along some C;L\'(lll‘yfllell. They burned the
depot. Next come Kong some infantrymen,
and they tore up the railroad track and
burned it. Then they sot fire to the well.”
Nov. 27 Sherman himself went to Tenillo
hover about the,
Station and found a portion of the army of .
5 was the Twentieth, on its right the Seven-
It was Corse’s division that
The well was the
the right wing.
had “sot fire to the well.”
railway rater tank.
W'heu the left wing marched from Milledge
ville, Nov. 21, Kilputrick, with the cavalry.
was ordered to move rapidly eastward, strike
the railroad between Augusta and Millon,
and break up the railroad towards Milieu.
That done, he was; to ride rapidly to Millen
and rescue the Union prisoners in the stockade
fort there. .
From Nov. 27 till Dec. 3 there was daily
fighting between Kilputrick and Wheeler,
with varying fortune. All of Wheeler’s three
divisions—Humc’s, Dibrell’s and Anderson’s
"were engaged in these skirmishes.
Kilpatrick found that the Union prisoners
had already been removed from Milieu two
days before he reached there. The dead
bodies of a. number of them were found lying
unburied and stark upon the ground. Seven
hundred prisoners’ graves were there, too.
These were in batches of fifty, without a
name to mark any of tho dead, lying there
unknown in all time to come.
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CONFEDERATE PRISON AT MILLER.
On learning that the Union prisoners had
been removed from Milieu, Kilpatrick re-
joined the left wing, then at Louisville. He
rested his men and horses two days, then re-
turned to the conflict with Wheeler, taking
with him this time Baird’s infantry division.
The whole left wing followed on towards
Milieu.
Dec. 2, Kiipat-riok, now backed by Baird,
had the opportunity he desired of once more
meeting W'heeler. The two forces met near
VVayuesboro, at Brim- creel:. There was a
severe fight, at the end of which Wheeler
was finally driven off northward towards
Augusta. Kilpatrick usually dismounted his
men to fight. .
Dec. 3 Sherman himself cut-mi Milieu
with Blair’s corps of the right vn'ng. There
he waited a. day to find out where all pm
of his army were. The fill-st stage in his
journey to tho sea ended at Milledgevillo.
The second stage ended at Millen, and it had
now been finished.
CROSSING THE OGEECHEE.
The passage of the Ogeechee is considered
a very brilliant piece of military strategy.
While Kilpatrick was demonstrating against
Augusta. and Ffaynesboro, the infantry of
both wings was crossing the Ogeeobee. Dec.
3, when Sherman entered Milieu, the only
part of his army still south of the Ogeeohee
was the Fifteenth corps, of the right wing.
Sherman now had his army well in hand
for the final descent on Savannah.
Meantime, more than 100 miles of Georgia
Central railroad had been demolished. Sixty
miles of the Georgia road, from Atlanta to
Augusta, had been treated in like manner.
The railroad bridges of the Georgia Control,
over both the Ocmulgee and the Ooonee, had
been burned. On the branch road from An-
gusta. to Milieu the track had been torn up
and the bridges across Buckhead and Brier
creeks annihilated.
DEFENSE OF SAVANNAH.
Hardee had available for the defense of
Savannah about 17,000 men. They were
mostly Georgia militia, though Gen. Lafay-
ette McLaws had been detailed with his com-
mand to the aid of Hardce.
Gen. Richard Taylor proved of invaluable
service in this time of forlorn hope by his ac-
tivity and fertility of resources. He had
aided in bringing “Governor Brown’s army,”
as the Georgia militia. was called. to Savan-
nah. They had a. fight and won a. victory at
Honey Hill, near Grahamvilie, S. 0., not
far from the Atlantic coast.
Beaufort, S. 0., was the principal Union
depot on this part of the coast. Gen. John
G. Foster was in command here. He shipped
a large quantity of army supplies to Port
Royal, at the mouth of Broad river, to await
V the coming of Sherman’s army.
The railroad from Savannah to Charleston
crossed the Savannah river fifteen miles
north of the former city. Hardee prepared
to defend this crossing.
Savannah is‘ approached by causeways
through the marshes. These Were heavily
guarded by Hardee and obstructed with tini-
bcr, , I
The Ogeechee and Savannah rivers come
near together at Savannah, being no more
than fifteem miles‘apart. The widened mouth
of the Ogeechee is called Ossabaw sound.
where it had been promised that Admiral
Dahlgren‘l fleet mould meet Sherman. 0n
Ossabnw sound was Fort MeAllister.
Hardee had constructed a line of fortifica-
tions from the Savannah to the Ogeechee.
The Union army marched on without inci-
dmt till Dec. 8, except that OR to the rear
left the sound of guns could be heard, where
Kilpatrick was still akirmishing with Wheel-
er’s cavalry. Wheeler followed the army all
the way to Savannah. As the march neared
the sea rice fields began to appear. At night
the soldiers went into camp, made blazing
fires of fragrant pine knots, and cooked their
suppers of rice.
Dec. 8, an Sherman rode along, he observed
that his head of column had turned ofl from
the main route and were marching through
the field. Riding up to ascertain the cause,
he found a handsome young officer lying in
the mad with his foot blown off and the flesh
torn from his leg. His horse had stepped
upon a hidden torpedo in the road. The horse
had been blown to atoms and the officer
wounded in the manner described. It was
the army‘s first ox deuce of one of the
modes of defense a opted for the city of
Savannah.
“This was not war, but murder,” said
Sherman, “and it made me very angry.”
_ roar n’ALLISTER.
He immediately ordered a number of Con-
federate prisoners to be brought to the front.
He made them take picks and spades and
march in close order along the road ahead of
the army, “so as to explode their own torpe-
does.” They might find them and dig them
out, if they could, but march in front they
must, and march they did, though begging
hard of the inexorable Sherman to be let off.
Dec. 8, the advance went into camp only
eight miles from Savannah.
During Dec. 9 and 10 all the corps reached
the fortifications of Savannah, and invested
the city. The Fourteenth corps was on the
left, at the Savannah river, next on its right
teenth. Last on the right was the Fifteenth
corps, which formed the right of the army,
and rested on the Ogecchee river.
After inspecting the ample fortifications
about Savannah, Sherman determined as his
first move to communicate with the fleet that
was believed to be waiting with food and
supplies at Ossabaw Sound. One of HOW—
ard’s scouts, Capt. Duncan, had floated down
the Ogeechee in the night, in a canoe, past
Fort McAllister, to signal the fleet if possi-
ble. Kilpatrick’s cavalry was also again
transferred to the right. and sent to the south
bank of the Ogeeohee.
Kilpatrick was to ride along the coast and
open communication with the fleet.
On the scacoust, a little northeast of 0558.-
baw sound, is W'assaw sound, and northeast
of that is Tybee sound, as the widened mouth
of the Savannah river is called. About this
portion of the coast Dahlgren’s fleet lay,
awaiting Sherman. Fort Pulaski is on Tybee
sound.
CAPTURE OF FORT
DEC. 13.
After Kilpatrick and Howard’s scout had
gone down the coast, Sherman, whose active
mind could not rest, determined to assault
Fort McAllister with his forces on the land
side. For this difiicult task he detailed Gen.
.W. B. Hazen’s division of the Fifteenth corps,
Nov. 12.
Fourteen and a half miles southwest of
Savannah was King’s bridge, across the
Ogeechee. It was 1,000 feet long. The Con-
federates had destroyed it but left the posts
still standing. Sherman’s first order was to
rebuild it, so as to ofiord easy communica-
tion between the north and south sides of the
Ogeechee. Fort MoAllist‘er was on the south
M’ALLISTER,
‘ side of tho Ogeechee.
All night Dec. 12, Howard’s engineers la-
bored ot the bridge, and finished it; by sun-
rise. Then Hazen‘s division crossed and took
the road to Fort MoAllister.
Sherman followed on down the Ogeechee
on the left bank, till he came to Dr. Cheeves’
rice mill. On the roof of this Howard had
established a signal station. The commander-
climbedto this and with his glass watched
Fort McAllister, new in plain sight, two
miles across the river.
Bacon‘s division was the one Sherman him-
self had commanded at Shiloh and Vicks-
burg, and he now watched it with deepin-
teresb.
It is a historic picture, Sherman on the
platform built across the ridgepole of the
roof of the rice mill, beside the Ogeechee,
watching. the storming of Fort MoAllister.
On the water front, the defensm of the fort
were formidable. but comparatively weak on
the land side, where the wildest stretch of
the Confederate imagination had never
dreamed of an attack. To’rpedoes had, how—
ever, been planted in the river, and a line of
them was in the roadontholandsidealso.
The locality of these was learned from a
Confederate prisoner captured a mile from
the fort. They were removed, and Hazen
pressed on to the “981113.
Hazen had with him three brigades. Three
regiments were detailed from each of these
to make the assault. Therese wereheldas
reserves.
An abatls had been My builtagainst
the breastworls. The trunks of the trees
from which the branches had been taken for
this purpose still lay u n the ground. how-
ever, and formed a sh ta- for the advancing
assaultel‘s.
It was afternoon before preparations for
the assault could be completed. Sherman,“
watching with Howard from the rice mill
two miles away, could not control his impa-
tience. A few cannon shot had been heard
only.
While they watched, a tugboat steamed
cautiously up the Ogeeohee, beyond the fort,
miles away. ,
“Look, Howard, there is the gunboatl” ex-
claimed Sherman. Signals were opened
with it. . '
“Who are you?” came from the boat.
“Gen. Sherman,” was the answer. At
that moment another signal flag was-seen, one
on the land. It was from Hazen. It said: “I
have invested tm fort and will assault im-
mediately.”
Then the tug signaled: “Is Fort McAllister
ours?" Sherman answered: “Not yet, but
it will be in a minute.”
At the same moment the commander saw
Hazen’s line leaving the woods, and advanc-
ing to the assault. Not a. man Wavered, and
their regimental flags were flying. ,
“There theygo, grand, grand,” said Sher-
man. He waited a. minute, and said: “The
flag still goes forward.”
A thunder of cannon, a roll of musketry,
and then nothing but smoke. As it cleared
away the commander, straining his eyes to
catch sight of his own flags, exclaimed:
“Look Mlle line has halted. They waver;
no, no, it’s the parapet. They’re over. There
goes a. flag on the works, another and an-
other. The fort is ours! It’s ours!”
The assault was over in twenty minutes
after it began. ELIZA Ananno CONNER.
THE FALL 0F SAVANNAH.
SHERMAN'S BOYS‘ TALK OVER ITS
TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY.
"1 Deg to Present Youc, no I Christa-n
Gift. the City of Savannah with 15'
Heavy Guns nnd Plenty of Ammuni-
tion." ‘3
It is aquarter of a century ago, the 13th of
this December, since Fort McAilistor, t?
chief defense of Savannah, fell into the hands
of Sherman's men. Sherman was wild with
joy. In the words an old slave used to
him, on the first appearance of the Union
army at Gen. Howell Cobb’s plantation,
the commander exclaimed: “This nigger will
have no sleep this night. Get me a boat. I
must go down there,” pointing towards the
fort. '
He and Howard took a small skid, rowed
by some of the stafl officers, and pulled down
the river, landing first at the captured fort,
where they had supper with Hazen.
Fort McAllister had been commanded by
the Confederate Maj. G. W. Anderson, with
200 men. He was captured with his com-
mand. Hazen invited him to share the sup-
per of the Union generals, which he did.
Hazen’s assault was made by three parties,
one from below the fort, one from above, and
the other directly against the rear of the fort.
In the assault Hazen lost ninety-two, more of
whom were killed by torpedoes than by shots
from the fort. The ground was yet full of
torpedoes when Sherman passed over it, and
a soldier was blown to pieces almoSt under
his eyes, by stepping upon a torpedo while
hunting for a. dead comrade.
Regardless of the warnings about torpedoes,
Sherman once more embarked upon the
waters, and was rowed down the Ogeechee in
the moonlight. Six miles down they came to
the tug Dandelion, commanded by Capt.
Williamson, of the United States navy.
The Dandelion was a. tender of the gunboat
Flag, at the mouth of the Ogeechee. From
Capt. lVilliamson Sherman learned that Capt.
Duncan, Howard’s scout, had reached the
fleet in safety. Admiral Dahlgren had
charge of the South Atlantic squadron, at
this time blockading the coast from Charles-
ton south. Sherman received from the of-
ficers of the tug the first news he had had
from. \Vnshiugton or anywhere north in a
month.
Sherman established a. new base of supplies
This was fixed at King’s Bridge, at the cross-
ing of the Gulf railway.
Sherman invested Savannah, so that only
one line of retreat was left to Hardee, who
with 10000 Georgia militia still held the
city. These troops were in the immediate
command of Gen. G. W. Smith. The one
road left open to them was that to Charles-
ton, S. C., on the northeast. »
Dec. 11, having received heavy siege guns,
Sherman sent a letter to Hardee demanding
the surrender of Savannah. Hardee declined
to surrender. After receiving this reply
Sherman started to Port Royal to confer
with Dalhgren and Foster.
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army now, apparently. Savannah was sub
rounded with swamp-and islands, all ofwhich
had been thoroughly utilised by Hordes for
defense. The works about Snvnnnoh mounted
altogether 229 guns. Around the city land:
ward were broad rice floldn has. had been
flooded, and were hops-ebb by an army.
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them.
To completely invot the city also, it would
be necessary to throw a police of the Union
army across the Savannah rim at the
Charleston railroad m
Sherman’s plan was to 'fitunptb break
Hardee’s line of defiance in several pieces, in
the expectation that one or more of the cf!-
forts would succeed. When he started for
Port Royal he directed his oommdors duro
ing his absence to naked! motions for
an attack.
But during sums limes, Harden
gathered up his Georgie militia and retreated
to Charleston, leaving Savannah and all his
fortifications to fall into the hands of the
Union army. When Sherman returned up
the Ogeeoheo from Port Royal, he found the
city empty. He immediately occupied itl
'The army entered it on Dec. 21; Sherman,
himself, Dec. 2:3.
Mail for the army had been ordered by
Grant to be sent down the coast, and one of
the first vessels to come up the Ogeechee
after it was opened, was a steamboat load of
letters for the soldiers.
During the march through Georgia, the
Union army had destroyed 200 miles of rail;
way and.3100,000,000 Worth of preperty. “I
have no doubt the: state of Georgia has lost
by our operations at least 15,000 mules,”
wrote Sherman to Grant. He says in his
memoirs: ,
“The property captured may be measured
with sufficient accuracy by assuming that
65,000 men obtained abundant food for about
forty days, and 35,000 animals were fed ’for a
like period, so as to reach Savannah in splen-
did flosh and condition.” .
Dec. 23, 1864, all the north was Wild. with
joy at the news of the capture of the Confed—
erate strongholds at the mouths of the Sn-
‘vannah and the Ogeechee. The telegraph
also conveyed this message from Sherman to ,
President Lincoln:
“I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift,
the city of Savannah with 150 heavy guns
and plenty of ammunition, and also - about
25,000 bales of cotton. ”
Sherman’s march to the sea. was ended.
ELIZA ARCHARD Comma.
[The writer is indebted to the courtesy of Ains-
worth R. Spofiord, Esq., and his coups of assist?
ants in the Congressional library at Washington,
for- works of reference used in preparing these
war sketches] .
Norwalk Chronicler