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W. T. Sherman
P. H. Sheridan
Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals

CHAPTER XXIV
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Two other divisions, Crittenden's and McCook's, came up the river from Savannah in the transports and were on the west bank early on the 7th.

Buell commanded them in person.

My command was thus nearly doubled in numbers and efficiency.
During the night rain fell in torrents and our troops were exposed to the storm without shelter.

I made my headquarters under a tree a few hundred yards back from the river bank.

My ankle was so much swollen from the fall of my horse the Friday night preceding, and the bruise was so painful, that I could get no rest.
The drenching rain would have precluded the possibility of sleep without this additional cause.


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