THE STORY

OF

THE GREAT MARCH.

FROM THE

DIARY OF A STAFF OFFICER.

BY

BREVET MAJOR GEORGE WARD NICHOLS,

AID-DE-CAMP TO GENERAL SHERMAN.

With a Map and Ellustrations.

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

FRANKLIN SQUARE.

455780.8

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, by

HARPER & BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of

New York.

PREFACE.

My service as aid-de-camp on the staff of Major General Sherman began with the fall of Atlanta. The remarkable features and events of the campaigns of Geor gia and the Carolinas, visible to me during the whole of the Grand March, were noted daily in my journal. From that diary this Story of the March is compiled.

Sherman's army rests upon the laurels it has bravely won. Its heroes are now in other fields of duty, and a grateful Nation thanks them for their gallant deeds. I have told their story simply, and, I hope, honestly.

G. W. N.