Sunday, November 16, 2014

November 18, 1864---The garrison at Macon



NOVEMBER 18, 1864:     

Georgia is in an uproar. The fire-eating political General, Howell Cobb (once Secretary of the Treasury of the United States), General “Old Reliable” William Hardee, and General P.G.T Beauregard are all sent by Jefferson Davis to defend the city of Macon from William Tecumseh Sherman as he marches to the sea. Altogether, they have 10,000 men to defend Macon, as opposed to Sherman’s 60,000. Although Sherman pillages the nearby State capital, Milledgeville, he almost insolently ignores and bypasses Macon. The three Confederate generals elect to garrison Macon, the location of the Georgia Arsenal, and send out pickets, skirmishers and raiding parties to interfere with the Yankees. Sherman’s men bat them aside like so many gnats. 


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