Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-06-05
GENERAL sHERMAN's FAREWELL TO HIS
TROOPS.

GENERAL sHERMAN'S FAREWELL. TO HIS
TROOPS.
Major General Sherman has issued the follow.
ing address to the army recently commanded by
him:
HDQ'Rs MILITARY Div. OF THE MIs5IssIPPIl
In THE FIELD, Washington May 80, 1865.
SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS, No. 76.-The General
commanding announces to the armies of Tennes.
zee and Georgia that the time has come for US to
part; our work is done and armed enemies no
longer defy us.
some of you will be retained in service until
further orders; and now that we are about TO
separate, TO mingle with the civil orld. it be-
comes pleasing duty TO recall to mind the situ-
alton Of national affairs.
When but little more than a yelr ago we were
gathered about the twining cliffs of Lookout
Mountain, and all the future was wrapped in
doubt and uncertainty, three armies had come
together from distant fields, with separate histo.
res, yet bound by one common cause, the union
of our country, and the perpetuation of the Gov.
ernment OF our inheritance.
There is no need to recall to your memories
Tunnell Hill, with its rocky face mountain and
Buzzard Roost Gap, with the ugly forts of Dal.
ton behind. We were in earnest and paused not
for danger and difficulty, but dashed through
Snake Creek Cap and Tell on Resacca then on
to the Etowah, 10 Dallas, kenesaw, and the heats
of Summer found us on the banks of the Chatta.
hoochie, far from home, and dependent on a SIN.
gle road for supplies.
Again we were not to be held back by any
obstacle, and crossed over and fought four heavy
battles for the possession OF the citadel of Al.
lenta, that was the crisis of our history doubt
still clouded our future, but we solved the prob.
lem and destroyed Atlanta, struck boldly across
the State of Georgia. secured all the main arte.
res of life TO our enemy, and Christmas found us
at Savannah.
Waiting there only long enough to fill our wa.
CONS we again began our march, which for
peri, labor and results will compare with any
ever made by an organized army; the floods OF
the Savannah, the swamps of the Combahee and
Edisto, the high hills and rocks OF the Santee,
the fat quagmiies of the Pedee ana Cape Fear
rivers were all passed in midwinter with its foods
and rains, in the face of an accumulating enemy.
and after the battles Of Avorsborough and Beii-
tonville, we once more came out Of the wldernes 80
to met our friends at Goldsboro'.
Even then we paused only long enough TO get
new clothing to reload our wagons and again
pushed on to Raleigh, and beyond, until we met
our enemy sueing for peace instead OF war and
offering TO submit to the injured laws of his and
our country-as long as that enemy was defiant
nor mountains, nor rivers, nor swamps, nor hun.
ger, nor cold had checked US but when he who
had fought US hard and persistently offered sub
mission your General thoughtit wrong to pursue
him further, and negotiations followed which re-
suited as you all know in his surrender.
How far the operations of the arWy have con-
tr buted to the overthrow of the Confederacy, to
the peace which now dawns on us, must be judged
by others, not BY us; but that you have done all
that men could do has been admitted by those in
authority, and we have right to join In the uni.
yersal iov that fills the land because the war In
over and our Government stands vindicated be.
fore the world by the joint action of the volun.
teer armies of the United States.
To such as remain in the military service, your
General would only remind You that successes in
the past are due to hard work and discipline, and
that the same work and discipline are equally i'm
portant In the future.
Such as go home will only say that our IA
vored country is so grand, SO extensive 30 diver