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MEN AND EVENTS OF THE CIVIL WAR.

open headlands, Sherman produced the impression that his forces were ten times as numerous as they really were. He remained in his camp on Bear Creek through the rest of the siege, in order to prevent any possible attack by Joe Johnston, the reports about whose movements continued to be contradictory and uncertain.