Received official information from General Sherman this
morning that he had taken Savannah, Ga. with thirty-three thousand bales of
cotton, one hundred and fifty heavy guns, and eight hundred prisoners; one
hundred shotted guns fired in honor of it here; Thomas reports seventeen
thousand prisoners, eighty-one guns, etc., taken from General Hood; no news
from the Shenandoah Valley; rumored in camp that the Eighth Corps is at Dutch
Gap; hut covered and banked up; regimental dress parade to-night; mud drying up;
reckon the Confederacy is crumbling rapidly.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 244-5
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