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Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 35: (search)
fall of Atlanta a serious disaster for the Confederates. visit of President Davis to the military lines in Georgia. his speech at Macon. he betrays to the enemy the new military design. Hood's new movement to Tennessee. Sherman follows to Gaylesville. he turns back and determines to traverse the State of Georgia to the sea. his correspondence with Grant. how the enterprise was a plain one. no peril or genius in it. Errors of the Hood Davis strategy. Hood's Tennessee campaign. he loPassing through the gap of Pigeon Mountain, he entered Lafayette on the 15th. From this place he suddenly moved south to Gadsden, Alabama, where he rejoined his trains, to make his fatal march towards Nashville. Sherman waited some time at Gaylesville, until he became fully assured of the direction taken by Hood; and then abruptly prepared to abandon the pursuit, return to Atlanta, and mobilize his army for a march across the broad State of Georgia to the sea. His calculation was a plain an
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 37: (search)
ize the Southside Railroad. defeat of the enemy and frustration of his plans. public attention drawn to Georgia. Sherman's march to the sea. he returns from Gaylesville to Atlanta. the work of destruction commenced at Rome. burning of Atlanta. more than four thousand houses consumed. outline of Sherman's march from Atlanta.ounts of operations in Georgia, Gen. Sherman was meditating a march to the sea-board. Preparations were made to abandon all the posts south of Dalton, and from Gaylesville and Rome orders were issued concerning the new movement. In the latter place commenced the work of destruction: a thousand bales of cotton, two flour mills, twe elements of the hero. Where there is nothing to oppose an army, the mere accomplishment of distances is no great wonder or glory. From the time Sherman left Gaylesville to the day he encountered the lines around Savannah, he never had a thousand men on his front to dispute his advance; he had nothing to threaten his rear beyond