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An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps., Chapter 39 : (search)
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 43 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1862 , May (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1862 , August (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1864 , January (search)
January 25.
A body of rebels six hundred strong, attacked the National garrison of about one hundred, at Athens, Alabama, but were repulsed and routed after a fight of two hours. The Union loss was twenty; rebel loss more severe.--Gen. Rawlins's Despatch.
Brigadier-General Graham, by direction of Major-General Butler, went with three armed transports and a competent force, to the Peninsula, made a landing on the James River, seven miles below Fort Powhatan--known as the Brandon Farms, and captured twenty-two of the enemy, seven of the signal corps, and brought away ninety-nine negroes.
They also destroyed twenty-four thousand pounds of pork and large quantities of oats and corn, and captured a sloop and schooner, and two hundred and forty boxes of tobacco, and five Jews preparing to run the blockade, and returned without the loss of a man.--Gen. Butler's Despatch.--(Doc. 57.)
Corinth, Miss., was evacuated by the National forces, and every thing of value in that s
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 45 (search)
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 4 : campaign of the Army of the Cumberland from Murfreesboro'to Chattanooga . (search)
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 5 : the Chattanooga campaign .--movements of Sherman 's and Burnside 's forces. (search)
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott), May 1 -2 , 1862 .-operations in the vicinity of Athens , Mooresville , Limestone Bridge , and Elk River, Ala. (search)
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 31 (search)
Xxxi.
Hood's Tennessee campaign.
Forrest's last raid
captures Athens, Ala.
is chased out of Tennessee by Rousseau
Hood preases Gordon Granger at Decatu nnessee near Waterloo, he suddenly presented
Sept. 23, 1864. himself at Athens, Alabama, held by Col. Campbell, 110th U. S. colored, with 600 men. Investing the t nd sending Buford, with 4,000 men, to summon Huntsville,
Oct. 5. and then Athens, Ala.; while he, with 3,000, swept north-west to Columbia; threatening that place, r his reappearance hurrying southward.
Buford tried to carry
Oct. 2-3. Athens, Ala.; which was firmly held by Lt.-Col. Slade, 73d Indiana, who repulsed him hand 4. as was most of Stanley's; while Gen. Granger withdrew the garrisons from Athens (Ala.), Decatur, and Huntsville, retiring on Stevenson.
The force left at Johnson Stevenson, where was Gen. Granger, with the former garrisons of Huntsville, Athens (Ala.), and Decatur, with directions to reoccupy our former posts in north Alabama