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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 14: Sherman's campaign in Georgia. (search)
Confederates during this campaign, down to the capture of Atlanta, was estimated as follows:--In skirmishing from Chattanooga to Atlanta, 6,000; Battle of Resaca, 2,500; battles around Dallas, 3,500; Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, 1,000; battles of July 20, 22, and 28, near Atlanta, 22,500; other contests around Atlanta, 1,500; and battles near Jonesboroa, 5,000; total, 42,000. They lost more than twenty general. officers, and nearly fifty pieces of cannon (of which 8 were 64-pounders), and fullof Resaca, 4,500; skirmishing from Resaca to Allatoona, 500; battles around Dallas, 8,000; Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, July 27, 3,000; other contests around Kenesaw, 4,500; skirmishing between the Kenesaw and the Chattahoochee, 1,000; battles of July 20, 22, and 28, near Atlanta, 6,200; skirmishing afterward, 3,000; battles near Jonesboroa, 1,500; in cavalry raids, 2,000; total, 80,400. The Nationals also lost fifteen cannon, ten of them in the severe battle of the 22d of July. Notwithstandin
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 17: Sherman's March through the Carolinas.--the capture of Fort Fisher. (search)
sive salt works belonging to the Confederates, on West Bay and Lake Ocola, valued at $3,000,000, were destroyed by orders of Admiral Bailey. In May, there was a gathering at Jackson, called the State Convention of Unionists of Florida, and these appointed six delegates to the Republican Convention in Baltimore; but the affair amounted to nothing effective. At midsummer, General Birney moved out from Jacksonville, by order of General Foster, to Callahan Station, on the Fernandina railway, July 20. burning bridges and other property. Other raids occurred, here and there, in the direction of the St. Mary's; and, for a time, Baldwin, and two or three other places, were held by National troops. There were skirmishes without decisive results; and, at the end of the year, neither party had gained or lost much. Very little occurred in South Carolina during the year 1864 that affected the final result of the struggle. All through the year, there was occasional shelling of Charleston,