Cedar Creek

The Army of Tennessee

Columbia

The Road to Winnsboro’

The Beginning of the End

April, 1865

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ILLUSTRATIONS

The Road to Vidalia

Sharpshooters

The Bloody Angle

The Scout

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CEASE FIRING

CHAPTER I THE ROAD TO VIDALIA

The river ran several thousand miles, from a land of snow and fir trees and brief summers to a land of long, long summers, cane and orange. The river was wide. It dealt in loops and a tortuous course, and for the most part it was yellow and turbid and strong of current. There were sandbars in the river, there were jewelled islands; there were parallel swamps, lakes, and bayous. From the border of these, and out of the water, rose tall trees, starred over, in their season, with satiny cups or disks, flowers of their own or vast flowering vines, networks of languid bloom. The Spanish moss, too, swayed from the trees, and about their knees shivered the canebrakes. Of a remarkable personality 

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