'Tomorrow morning we set out on a campaign which will be remembered. God grant it aid to bring to a speedy end this terrible and lamentable war!' So wrote Major Henry Hitchcock on the eve of General William Sherman's epic march across Georgia to the sea. Hitchcock on the eve of General William Sherman's epic across Georgia to the sea. Hitchcock, a new member of Sherman's staff, was right about the fame, or infamy, that would attach to the campaign. His diaries and letters describe at first hand and pillage with as much sorrow as satisfaction.
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