At Coosawhatchie
Yankees are landing in great force. Our troops down there are raw militia, old
men and boys never under fire before; some college cadets, in all a mere
handful. The cradle and the grave have been robbed by us, they say. Sherman
goes to Savannah and not to Augusta.
SOURCES: Mary
Boykin Chesnut, Edited by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary, A
Diary From Dixie, p. 336
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