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Troops for The Civil War
Raising the Troops
The desperate advance of Hood on Nashville had been most successfully met by General Thomas, his army completely defeated, routed, and driven in hot haste southward in a most demoralized condition.
"General Sherman had gallantly driven the enemy from beyond Chattanooga and onwards, had battered down his strong works at Atlanta, then bidding farewell to his friends, and placing both flanks of his noble army in air, swung off for the sea, leaving the Nation in great ignorance and intense uneasiness as to his movements and safety, and is first heard from in the dispatch of General Howard, of his army, saying: ' We have had perfect success, and the army is in fine spirits; ' and then by General Sherman himself, sending to Abraham Lincoln a telegram covering the capture of Savannah as a Christmas present. "
American Civil War
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