[The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman<br> Vol. I.<br> Part 2 by William T. Sherman]@TWC D-Link book
The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman
Vol. I.
Part 2

CHAPTER X
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I sent for wagons and had all the wounded carried back to camp, and caused the dead to be buried, also the whole rebel camp to be destroyed.
Here we found much ammunition for field-pieces, which was destroyed; also two caissons, and a general hospital, with about two hundred and eighty Confederate wounded, and about fifty of our own wounded men.

Not having the means of bringing them off, Colonel Dickey, by my orders, took a surrender, signed by the medical director (Lyle) and by all the attending surgeons, and a pledge to report themselves to you as prisoners of war; also a pledge that our wounded should be carefully attended to, and surrendered to us to-morrow as soon as ambulances could go out.

I inclose this written document, and request that you cause wagons or ambulances for our wounded to be sent to-morrow, and that wagons' be sent to bring in the many tents belonging to us which are pitched along the road for four miles out.

I did not destroy them, because I knew the enemy could not move them.

The roads are very bad, and are strewed with abandoned wagons, ambulances, and limber-boxes.


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