3 1865 CIVIL WAR newspapers w EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT SHERMAN\'S MARCH thru CAROLINAS for Sale

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3 1865 CIVIL WAR newspapers w EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT SHERMAN\'S MARCH thru CAROLINAS For Sale

$3 1865 CIVIL WAR newspapers w EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT SHERMAN\'S MARCH thru CAROLINAS$
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3 1865 CIVIL WAR newspapers w EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT SHERMAN\'S MARCH thru CAROLINAS:
$30.00

Lot of three (3) 1865 CIVIL WAR newspapers with front and inside-page detailed EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS of Union general William Tecumseh SHERMAN\'S MARCH thru the CAROLINAS-inv #3A-302

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SEE PHOTO-----THREE (3) COMPLETE, ORIGINALNEWSPAPERs,theEvening Post (NY) dated March 20, 21 & 22 with coverage of Union GENERAL WILLIAM T SHERMAN\'S MARCH through the CAROLINAS !

After Sherman captured Savannah, the culmination of his march to the sea, he was ordered by Union Army general-in-chief Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to embark his army on ships to reinforce the Army of the Potomac and the Army of the James in Virginia, where Grant was bogged down in the Siege of Petersburg against Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Sherman had bigger things in mind. He predicted on January 5, 1865: \"I do think that in the several grand epochs of this war, my name will have a prominent part.\" He persuaded Grant that he should march north through the Carolinas instead, destroying everything of military value along the way, similar to his March to the Sea through Georgia. Sherman was particularly interested in targeting South Carolina, as the first state to secede from the Union, for the effect it would have on Southern morale.

Sherman\'s army commenced toward Columbia, South Carolina, in late January 1865. His 60,079 men were divided into three wings: the Army of the Tennessee, under Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard, the Army of the Ohio under Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield, and two corps, the XIV and XX, under Maj. Gen. Henry W. Slocum, which was later formally designated the Army of Georgia. Reinforcements arrived regularly during his march north, and by April 1 he commanded 88,948 men.

Sherman\'s opponents on the Confederate side had considerably fewer men. The primary force in the Carolinas was the battered Army of Tennessee, again under the command of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston (who had been relieved of duty by Confederate President Jefferson Davis during the Atlanta Campaign against Sherman). His strength was recorded in mid-March at 9,513 and 15,188 by mid-April. The army was organized into three corps, commanded by Lt. Gen. William J. Hardee, Lt. Gen. Alexander P. Stewart, and Lt. Gen. Stephen D. Lee. Also in the Carolinas were cavalry forces from the division of Maj. Gen. Wade Hampton and a small number in Wilmington, North Carolina, under Gen. Braxton Bragg.

Sherman\'s plan was to bypass the minor Confederate troop concentrations at Augusta, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, and reach Goldsboro, North Carolina, by March 15. As with his Georgia operations, Sherman marched his armies in multiple directions simultaneously, confusing the scattered Confederate defenders as to his first true objective, which was the state capital of Columbia, South Carolina

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