When a sufficient number of rails were placed upon a pile of ties it would be set on fire.

This would heat the rails very much more in the middle, that being over the main part of the fire, than at the ends, so that they would naturally bend of their own weight; but the soldiers, to increase the damage, would take tongs and, one or two men at each end of the rail, carry it with force against the nearest tree and twist it around, thus leaving rails forming bands to ornament the forest trees of Georgia.

All this work was going on at the same time, there being a sufficient number of men detailed for that purpose.

Some piled the logs and built the fire; some put the rails upon the fire; while others would bend those that were sufficiently heated: so that, by the time the last bit of road was torn up, that it was designed to destroy at a certain place, the rails previously taken up were already destroyed.
The organization for supplying the army was very complete.

Each brigade furnished a company to gather supplies of forage and provisions for the command to which they belonged.