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The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley) 693 51 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 610 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 83 39 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 70 2 Browse Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 50 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 42 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 42 2 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 41 3 Browse Search
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2 28 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 27 3 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ona, the Chattahoochee bridge included. This movement is difficult to understand, except as explained by unofficial reports that were in circulation during yesterday. If they be true, the destruction of the railroad can be understood, though it will still appear a superfluous labor. The reports had it that Sherman, having burnt Atlanta on the 15th, last Tuesday, had set out for Macon with three corps, amounting together to thirty-five thousand men, and that he had, on yesterday, reached Jonesboro', twenty-two miles south of Atlanta.--If there is truth in these accounts, as we believe there is, Wheeler has much to answer for. It devolved upon him to watch Sherman and keep posted as to his movements. Only four days ago he reported him "moving towards Bridgeport." Now, it is said, he reports him moving towards Macon, as above stated. We regret to say this latter report is corroborated by other evidence. Sherman will, we think, meet with opposition he does not calculate upon be
The Daily Dispatch: November 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
mused within their entrenchments, while our army was safely moved by them, and "nobody hurt." Out of this Stanton, however, bulletined a great victory. The Augusta Chronicle, giving an account of how affairs stand at Atlanta, says that, on the 6th, the Twentieth army corps relieved the Twenty-third, which gave rise to the rumor that Sherman was being reinforced. Our cavalry captured a drove of five hundred mules near the Chattahoochee river. The Chronicle says: Scouts who left Jonesboro' on Wednesday morning report that General Howell Cobb, with from six to eight thousand militia and three brigades of cavalry, attacked the enemy and was steadily driving them in. A soldier who had been captured by the Yankees, and who succeeded in effecting his escape, reports that there were not over eight thousand troops in the city. Parties along the line of the State road, between Atlanta and Marietta, represent that the trains go up to Marietta daily heavily laden and return em