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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