Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Diary of Private Alexander G. Downing: Tuesday, November 17, 1863

The report in camp this morning was that General Sherman had been killed and his force captured on a railroad train east from Memphis. Another report this afternoon says that the train was attacked by the rebel cavalry, but that the troops formed a skirmish line and routed the rebels, and that Sherman is safe; but men were killed and wounded on both sides.1
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1 See Sherman's Memoirs. Vol. I., pp. 371-72.

Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 153

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