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26-Calvin completes his furlough and marches with Sherman from Atlanta to Savannah Calvin Day French-43 Ohio Volunteer Infantry Civil War Diaries
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After a three week furlough following his escape from the Confederate prisoner train, Calvin travels 900 miles by train from his home in Ohio to Atlanta. There he joins up with General Sherman's Army on November 18, 1864 and marches nearly 300 miles across Georgia reaching Savannah on December 10, 1864. During the "March to the Sea", General Sherman and his troops destroy and burn towns and railroads and forage the land. In this episode, a female family member of a descendent of Calvin reads from a woman's historic diary of her account of the destruction of the railroad and railroad station at Gordon, Georgia.
After a three week furlough following his escape from the Confederate prisoner train, Calvin travels 900 miles by train from his home in Ohio to Atlanta. There he joins up with General Sherman's Army on November 18, 1864 and marches nearly 300 miles across Georgia reaching Savannah on December 10, 1864. During the "March to the Sea", General Sherman and his troops destroy and burn towns and railroads and forage the land. In this episode, a female family member of a descendent of Calvin reads from a woman's historic diary of her account of the destruction of the railroad and railroad station at Gordon, Georgia.
29 min