Good morning, Whitewater.
Monday will be cloudy in town, with rain in the afternoon, and a high of thirty-eight. Sunrise is 7:23 AM and sunset 4:24 PM, for 9h 01m 44s of daytime. We have a new moon, with less than one percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1864, Gen. Sherman gives Pres. Lincoln a Christmas gift:
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 22.
To His Excellency, President Lincoln:
I beg to present you as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
(Signed.) W. T. Sherman, Major-General
Steamer Golden Gate,
Savannah River, 7 P.M., Thursday, Dec. 22.
To Lieutenant-General Grant and Major-General H. W. Halleck:
I have the honor to report that I have just returned from General Sherman’s headquarters in Savannah.
I send Major Gray of my staff as bearer of dispatches from General Sherman to you, and also a message to the President.
The city of Savannah was occupied on the morning of the 21st. Gen. Hardee, anticipating the contemplated assault, escaped with the main body of his infantry and light artillery, on the morning of the 20th, by crossing the river to Union Causeway, opposite the city. The rebel iron- clads were blown up, and the Navy-yard was burned. All the rest of the city is intact, and contains twenty thousand citizens, quiet and well-disposed.
The captures includes eight hundred prisoners, one hundred and fifty guns, thirteen locomotives in good order, one hundred and ninety cars, a large supply of ammunition and materials of war, three steamers and thirty-three thousand bales of cotton safely stowed in warehouses.
All these valuable fruits of an almost bloodless victory have been, like Atlanta, fairly won.
I opened communication with the city with my steamers to-day, taking up what torpedoes we could see, and passing safely over others. Arrangements are made to clear the channel of all obstructions. Yours, & c.,
(Signed.) J. G. Foster, Major-General.
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