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| Tango01 | 14 Feb 2015 11:53 a.m. PST |
"February 13, 1865 (Monday) The race was now on. Sherman's Federals were almost certainly moving upon Columbia, and P.G.T. Beauregard was doing everything possible to concentrate any troops he could find before that city. General Carter Stevenson, whose Confederates had been ousted out of Orangeburg the day previous, was falling back to Columbia rather than Charleston to the east. Additionally, Beauregard wanted even more. He had tried to pull troops from Wilmington, along the coast, but their fear of a coming attack prevented any from being available. "No force can be spared from this department for the purpose indicated," came General Robert Hoke's reply. And then he ordered D.H. Hill, defending the more westerly Augusta, to send either Alexander Stewart or Benjamin Cheatham's corps – it did not matter which – "as soon as practicable." But to Hill, intent on saving Augusta from an enemy that seemed more and more disinterested in attacking, deemed it "impracticable." There were two Federal divisions encamped about thirty miles east. There were reports from prisoners that more would be… "
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