Major General William T. Sherman, commanding the compulsory Union Military Division of the Mississippi, occupies Fort McAllister (Georgia), at the mouth of the Ogeechee River. Sherman makes contact with South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, commanded by Admiral John A.B. Dahlgren.
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 302.
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