Bisbee daily review., 1906-05-04
FOLLOWING AN OLD AND INTERESTING TRAIL.

A son of Gen. William T. Shermn, Rev. Thomas Sherman, with an escort of United States cavalry, is about to ride over the route taken by his fath- CT from Atlanta to tidewater at Sa- vannah in the winter of 1S64-65. There was much in that movement of the dramatic and romantic in war. Ere quently it is said that the long march across Georgia by an immense army cut loose from it's base of supplies was unopposed. But it resulted in some of the heaviest fighting of the war. though the sceues of battle were shifted to the neighborhood of Nash vile The Confederate army con- fronting the Union army below Atlanta in the fate fall of 1864 had ample no- tice that Sherman intended to de- stroy the cIty and push through the heart of Georgia tc 'he seaboard, and the answer vas counter stroke. As Sherman proceeded to the southeast. and even before he started, history tells Us that his adversary, General Hood. headed his veteran divisions for the northwest, and the strange spec taclc was presented of two immense armies, in the highest state of train ing, marching away from each other each moving hundreds of miles into the territory that had previously been the rear of his antagonist. Sherman found no body of troops to question his progress, and Hood had an easy progress until he reached the terrible field of Franklin, few miles south of Nashville. A few weeks later his army was crushed in a fierce battle within sight of that city. But those fearful conflicts were as truly a part of the march to the sea as if they had reddened the tolling plains of Georgia.
 In the preceding spring sherman had assembled an army of more than hundred thousand men at Chatta- nooga for an advance on Atlanta, the railroad heart and most enterprising young city in Georgia. It was in that campaign that he taught the strate- gists of the world some lessons in de- nberate fianking that are now a recog- nized part of military science. One requisite is to have the most men by a considerable margin, and the system then is simple. Put a close pressure on the enemy's entire line, holding them firmly in place; then send your surplus divisions around his flank forcing him to retreat, assault or ad- vance and fight in the open on the threatened side. At first the Confed- crate commander, was General Joseph E. Johnston, and he steadily retreated, the logical course to pursue under the circumstances. Once he drew up his lines to give general battle, but he changed his mind for sound reasons. It was not until Sherman was within a few miles of Atlanta that Johnston, thought at Richmond to be too much of Fabius, was relieved by Hood, who immediately took the offensive, but was rolled back at his three killings" Sherman put the screws as usual up cz Atlanta, and finally fanked 1t with his- entjre army except one corps, which fell back few miles to hold tse river crossing.
 That was a mighty movement, and 3 mighty risk if Hood had known what was going On, but it was day before he realized that the army suddenly vanished from his front was far down around his left flank instead. as he supposed, of being engaged in a rear ward movement Atlanta fell without Inc big battle that had been long i'm nending, but it was to be fought after all. and Nashville was the place, in The ensuing midwinter.
 These wio ride over the scenes of the march to the sea will find little 10 mark 1t, for it left few traces. It was a bold challenge to Hood to come forth and fight it "ut in the interior of Georgia, with both armies foragine fer subsistence. Rrt the Confederate commander also preferred to try the
 dramatic and romantic. Sherman had a holiday march. Hood was even
 tuaIly wiped out. The hollowness oi
 the Confederate shell was exposed and in four months after Sherman'f unscathed host reached Savannah ts: