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forced to “march in close order along the road, so as to explode their own torpedoes, or to discover and dig them up.” The scene amused Sherman, who “could hardly help laughing at their stepping so gingerly along the road, where it was supposed sunken torpedoes might explode at each step, but they found no more torpedoes till near Fort McAllister.” All the markers we have seen on this leg of the trail have related to the XVII Corps. As we approach Savannah we can join the other corps of Howard’s army the XV, commanded by Maj. Gen. Oosterhaus. After the XVII crossed the Ogeechee upstream west of Millen, the XV remained on the right bank and proceeded toward Savannah below the route taken by Blair’s Corps. A marker tells the story of the Savannah and Ogeechee Canal, built in the late 1820s, that connected the two rivers and provided power to a variety of industries. Oosterhaus’s forc came to the Ogeechee near the western terminus of the canal. One division crossed the river on December 7 and 8, using a pontoon bridge upstream from the canal. Moving downstream, the division cleared the east side, driving away the few Confederates in the vicinity. Th Federals threw another pontoon
bridge across the river and “By December 12th the entire than a month, and are about to repaired a burned bridge. Soon Federal army was in position establish communication with a the entire XV was across. The XVII Corps was in Pooler, near Confederate-held Savannah. General Sherman’s next move base of supply. The Confederates behind the works in Savannah are Visit our new website at: a few hundred yards from the was to make contact with the all but isolated. The end is near.
protecting Savannah. The Left with needed supplies.” in space and time to trace the Wing, after its long march, Sherman’s two armies are progress of Sherman’s Left Wing, was nearing that place. The now before Savannah, having and see what Georgia Civil War marker sums up the situation: marched across the state in less Heritage Trails has to tell us of this army’s march, of the scant Confederate troops facing it, and Slaughter on the Mountain of the civilians in its path, and in its wake. 160th Anniversary Reenactment STAY INFORMED! of the Battle of Cedar Mountain *The road ran between Savannah and Louisville, the August 5-7, 2022 Georgia state capital between INSIDE THI S ISSUE: G AMERICA’S MOST FAMO US BATTL LEE’S HOST EFIELD BY JIM LIGHT L. SELL JR HIZER ESS BY CARL WING THAT GROU ND BY HARO LD HOLZER Culpeper, Virginia • PRESERVIN PSON - ROBERT E. HALLO N THE MONTHLY TING AND H F. WILSO CONSECRA BY JOSEP • MARY THOM REVISITED: STILL THE FIGHT 2018 BACK IN 1796 and 1807. We will visit G • GETTYSBUR NIA RESERVES: ZKOWSKI • THE PENN SYLVA JOE MIEC K. SHAFFER SHOVLIN DRAF T RIOTS BY S BY MICHAEL SBUR G BY MIKE STOR • NEW YORK G CIVIL WAR ANCE SPEOPLE OF GETTY CILELLA BY THE TOWN SALVATORE • RESEARCHIN SBURG BY NON PRITC HARD ATION FACED BATTLE OF GETTY ED BY SHAN • CONTAMIN AND THE REMEMBER Y R. WAUD NT 4TH TEXAS BY THOMAS P. LOWR • ALFRED Louisville in a future column CURRENT EVENTS OF THE GALLA SLATED Expanded • COLONEL GETTYSBURG TRAN AT • ESKIMOS November Book Issue FREE 2020 December US and CS troops are wanted for a 48 Pages, NEWSPAPER siasts w War Enthu Sheds Ne For Civil ly Newspaper on Sherman’s Left Wing. rapbook Month America’s re Seen Sc
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