Special Field Orders No. 120 (series 1864) were military orders issued during the

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, on November 9, 1864, by

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of the

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. He issued these orders in preparation for his famous March to the Sea, also known as the Savannah Campaign.

Orders

Publication in the Official Record

This order is part of the

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. It can be found in Series I — Military Operations, Volume XXXIX, Part III, Pages 713–714. The volume was published in 1892.O.R. Series 1, Volume 39, Part 3, p 713-714. This is the version transcribed above.
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Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 119

"Sherman's March to the Sea
in the New Georgia Encyclopedia * Caudill, Edward, and Paul Ashdown. ''Sherman’s March in Myth and Memory''. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008. * Frank, Lisa Tendrich. ''The Civilian War: Confederate Women and Union Soldiers during Sherman’s March''. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015. * Huff, Lawrence. “‘A Bitter Draught We Have Had to Quaff’: Sherman’s March Through the Eyes of Joseph Addison Turner.” ''The Georgia Historical Quarterly'' 72, no. 2 (1988): 306–26. * Marszalek, John F. ''Sherman’s March to the Sea''. 1st ed. Abilene, TX: McWhiney Foundation Press, 2005. * Rubin, Anne Sarah. ''Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman’s March and American Memory''. 1st ed. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. * Wills, Charles Wright, and Mary E. Kellogg. ''Army Life of an Illinois Soldier Including a Day-by-Day Record of Sherman’s March to the Sea : Letters and Diary of Charles W. Wills.'' Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996.

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Orders

Publication in the Official Record

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