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■working members, and teams of all sorts were busycollecting and bringing in corn and carrying awaymeal for distribution. This bit of enterprise was sopleasing to the troops that plenty of volunteerswere ready to relieve the different gangs, and thedemand was so great as to keep the mill at workall night by the light of pine-knot fires and torches.

The march through Georgia has been called agrand military promenade, all novelty and excite-ment. But its moral effect on friend and foe wasimmense. It proved our ability to lay open the

heart of the Confederacy, and left the question ofwhat we might do next a matter of doubt andterror. It served also as a preliminary trainingfor the arduous campaign to come. Our work wasincomplete while the Carolinas, except at a fewpoints on the sea-coast, had not felt the rough con-tact of war. But their swamps and rivers, swollenand spread into lakes by winter floods, presentedobstructions almost impracticable to an invadingarmy, if opposed by even a very inferior force.

The task before us was indeed formidable. It