During this meeting, General Sherman expressed great frustration at Major Anderson having planting land mines along the land route into the fort, finding it a less-than gentlemanly tactic. General Sherman personally ordered Major Anderson to join the details of captured Confederates tasked with clearing these mines following the battle. Before being confined, Anderson observed a company of Union soldiers marching out of the fort, on a course that would lead them into some buried ordinance that would have detonated under their feet.
During this meeting, General Sherman was upset about Major Anderson's use of landmines along the route to the fort, which he considered uncivilized. He ordered Anderson to join Confederate prisoners tasked with clearing these mines after the battle. Before being confined, Anderson witnessed Union soldiers marching out of the fort on a path that would lead them into buried explosives.