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[CIVIL WAR -- SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA]. VAUGHN, Theodore R. (1843-1917), Union Soldier. Autograph manuscript diary, signed in various places, 1862-1864. 12mo, 128 pages in a pocket diary, bound in soft leather, original pencil present, 27 PAGES DEAL WITH SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA.
"HOW RAPIDLY DEVASTATION IS SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE STATE....BUT 'TIS WAR!"
A gripping wartime diary by a Union orderly attached to Sherman's headquarters during the March to the Sea, an account that brings us within earshot of Sherman as well as the Rebel cannons. Vaughn begins his diary in West Virginia and he maintained it sporadically throughout transfers to Tennessee in 1863 and 1864. In October 1864 he's posted to Sherman's headquarters just before the siege of Atlanta. "Atlanta Ga. Nov. 15 1864. Have lain still today while the Army has been employed in destroying the city....Tonight the heavens present one lurid glare....General Sherman feels confident of success in his contemplated enterprise....The past three days have also been employed in destroying the railroad between here and Kingston."
17 November: Vaughn reports "troops are busily engaged in tearing up the track and burning the ties...How rapidly devastation is being spread throughout the State....But 'tis War! War for the restoration of Right...which the Traitors of our land sought to take from us, thus bringing sorrow on themselves." 18 November: "Many of the citizens are so ignorant and foolish as to think we will injure them bodily." On 22 November he reports camping on the plantation of Howell Cobb. Two days later he's in Sandersville, Georgia: "There was quite heavy skirmishing before we entered the place. Wheeler's cavalry are opposing us. He is said to have commanded the skirmish line in person today. He even presumed to skirmish with us through the town. Genl. Sherman thought him quite foolish." 10 December: "The Genl. came very near being hit today by a solid shot which did decapitate a Negro."
Reaching a deserted plantation, the soldiers "smashed things up generally. The residence and surroundings indicate that the Landlord was in good circumstances. This evening the lady of the house returned and upon finding her house so literally ransacked she wept and wished she had remained there." By mid-December, the bold but brutal trek is nearly complete. 16 December: "Just one month ago today we left the City of Atlanta almost a sheet of flame and commenced our march through Ga." A significant first-hand account of a momentous and still controversial chapter of the war.
"HOW RAPIDLY DEVASTATION IS SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE STATE....BUT 'TIS WAR!"
A gripping wartime diary by a Union orderly attached to Sherman's headquarters during the March to the Sea, an account that brings us within earshot of Sherman as well as the Rebel cannons. Vaughn begins his diary in West Virginia and he maintained it sporadically throughout transfers to Tennessee in 1863 and 1864. In October 1864 he's posted to Sherman's headquarters just before the siege of Atlanta. "Atlanta Ga. Nov. 15 1864. Have lain still today while the Army has been employed in destroying the city....Tonight the heavens present one lurid glare....General Sherman feels confident of success in his contemplated enterprise....The past three days have also been employed in destroying the railroad between here and Kingston."
17 November: Vaughn reports "troops are busily engaged in tearing up the track and burning the ties...How rapidly devastation is being spread throughout the State....But 'tis War! War for the restoration of Right...which the Traitors of our land sought to take from us, thus bringing sorrow on themselves." 18 November: "Many of the citizens are so ignorant and foolish as to think we will injure them bodily." On 22 November he reports camping on the plantation of Howell Cobb. Two days later he's in Sandersville, Georgia: "There was quite heavy skirmishing before we entered the place. Wheeler's cavalry are opposing us. He is said to have commanded the skirmish line in person today. He even presumed to skirmish with us through the town. Genl. Sherman thought him quite foolish." 10 December: "The Genl. came very near being hit today by a solid shot which did decapitate a Negro."
Reaching a deserted plantation, the soldiers "smashed things up generally. The residence and surroundings indicate that the Landlord was in good circumstances. This evening the lady of the house returned and upon finding her house so literally ransacked she wept and wished she had remained there." By mid-December, the bold but brutal trek is nearly complete. 16 December: "Just one month ago today we left the City of Atlanta almost a sheet of flame and commenced our march through Ga." A significant first-hand account of a momentous and still controversial chapter of the war.