Thursday, December 18, 2014

December 19, 1864---The Union Army gets Scrooged; The Battle of Altamaha Bridge



DECEMBER 19, 1864:      

Putting the humbug on Christmas furloughs and cease-fires, Edwin M. Stanton, the Union’s Secretary of War issues General Orders 301, directing that all men fit for combat be put into the field to “aid the patriotic and gallant troops now smiting the reeling enemy with victorious blows.”

  


The Battle of Altamaha Bridge:      While he waits to enter Savannah, General William Tecumseh Sherman U.S.A. is not idle. Today he sends troops to Doctortown to destroy the Altamaha Bridge over the Ogeechee River, cutting off Savannah’s rail lifeline. The Confederate defenders, using a rail mounted gun, drive off the Federal troops.













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