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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 30 : battle of Casville (search)
Chapter 30: battle of Casville
In the forward movement from Adairsville, May 18, 1864, our three armies were a little mixed.
One division under the enterprising Jeff. C. Davis, with Garrard's cavalry, became detached from Thomas and went directly to Rome, and on the 18th drove out the small garrison of Confederates there; they captured some ten heavy guns, other war material, supplies of all kinds including a trainload of salt, and a few prisoners of war.
Johnston had fully determine h artillery firing, more than a half-mile away, could do little harm, seeing that there were many protecting ravines.
My corps, as we already know, followed the wagon road nearest the railway, turning to the left of Kingston about 8 A. M., May 18, 1864.
We had hardly passed through this much-scattered hamlet, when skirmishing opened southeast of the place.
Pressing back the skirmishers, we delayed any positive action till about 11 A. M., waiting for other troops to come into position, when