Our march, was substantially what I designed-straight on Columbia, feigning on Branchville and Augusta. The army is in splendid health, condition, and spirits, though we have had foul weather, and roads that would have stopped travel to almost any other body of men I ever heard of. We are abundantly supplied with all else, having in a measure lived off the country. A tug has just come up from Wilmington, and before I get off from here, I hope to get from Wilmington some shoes and stockings, sugar, coffee, and flour. GRANT, commanding United States Army, City Point, Virginia.ĭEAR GENERAL: We reached this place yesterday at noon Hardee, as usual, retreating across the Cape Fear, burning his bridges but our pontoons will be up to-day, and, with as little delay as possible, I will be after him toward Goldsboro. HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, IN THE FIELD,įAYETTVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, Sunday, March. The image is of William Sherman’s and Ulysses Grant’s portraits Sherman finished the letter by discussing the great progress he had made, and Grant had no reason to worry. Local Confederates took a vastly different opinion, as it was a source of pride for the locals. The destruction of the arsenal was essentially to destroy a valuable resource that a traitorous enemy possessed. In the letter, Sherman wrote of the importance of his march, and how a city like Fayetteville should never be able to possess an arsenal, as it was “such valuable property to a people who have betrayed a trust.” Sherman promised to destroy the arsenal. Sherman believed that his men, largely, were in good shape, and would eventually go towards Goldsboro as soon as possible to continue chasing Confederate General William Hardee. Sherman discussed general topics, such as the morale of his men, their health and overall conditions. Grant, on March 12, from Fayetteville, North Carolina. Union General William Sherman wrote the letter to the head of the Union Army, General Ulysses S.
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