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John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies, Chapter 13: (search)
illery 3,775 4,610 4,840 6,317 6,606 Total Army 44,495 59,928 65,601 126,430 136,684 September 20th, 1864.   present. Absent.   Effective. Total. Aggregate. Total. Aggregate. Infantre forty thousand four hundred and three (40,403) effectives reported present for duty on the 20th September, forty-five hundred (4500) cavalry were absent with Wheeler, in Tennessee. This latter circive hundred and forty-three (10,543) in number, as borne upon Colonel Mason's return, on the 20th September, was left in Georgia when we crossed the Tennessee, and was replaced by Forrest's cavalry, n8th of July was fifty thousand six hundred and twenty-seven (50,627) effectives. On the 20th of September, when stragglers had been gathered up, the effective strength of the Confederate Army, accchange, soon after the fall of Atlanta, and before Colonel Mason made up his return on the 20th of September. These prisoners were overlooked by myself and my chief of staff at the time I made my of
John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies, Appendix. (search)
nded the operations about Atlanta. Of the forces turned over to me nearly two months before, and since that day, daily engaged in battle and skirmishes, with a greatly superior enemy, there were remaining effective, as shown by the return of 20th September, infantry, twenty-seven thousand and ninety-four (27,094); cavalry, ten thousand five hundred and forty-three (10,543); artillery, two thousand seven hundred and sixty-six (2766). There had been sent to Mobile one brigade of infantry eight hu to the left and rear, a thing that he never could have done had it not been for the immense advantage the Chattahoochee river gave him. I arrived at Lovejoy's Station, having fought four battles, and the official reports of the Army on the 20th of September show an effective total of forty thousand four hundred and three (40,403) present, giving a total loss in all this time of five thousand two hundred and forty-seven (5247) men. My reasons for undertaking the movement into Tennessee have,