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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) 151 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 50 0 Browse Search
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid 20 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 13 7 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) 6 0 Browse Search
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 5 3 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 5 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2 2 0 Browse Search
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William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 8: (search)
version? Were Thomas and Schofield making it in Buzzard Roost and upon impregnable Rocky Face, with over sevent, as will now appear from the record history of Buzzard Roost and Resaca. On the 28th of February, 1864, bend), to have made a strong demonstration against Buzzard Roost, attracting Johnston's whole attention to that pth, he telegraphed from Tunnel Hill, in front of Buzzard Roost, to General Halleck, at Washington: I have b was still expecting to attack by Rocky Face and Buzzard Roost. On the 9th, General Thomas, from his headqua the attempt to put our columns into the jaws of Buzzard Roost would be fatal to us. And later in the same d the feint of a direct attack on Dalton, through Buzzard Roost, as long as possible; and with all the remainderlly too strong to be attempted. I must feign on Buzzard Roost, but pass through the Snake Creek Gap and place sion, as he tells Halleck, that he must feign on Buzzard Roost, but attack through Snake Creek Gap, which state
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 20: (search)
man even received the news of the great success, he alone, of the three army commanders, having failed, though after splendid fighting, to carry the point assigned to him. While he contends that the failure to bring Johnston to battle at Resaca, was due to the timidity of General McPherson, the records show that this officer acted exactly in accordance with Sherman's own orders; and while the latter claims that from the outset of the movement, it was his intention merely to feign through Buzzard Roost on Dalton, and press the bulk of the army through Snake Creek Gap on Johnston's rear, the records show that for three days he assaulted precipices in front of Dalton, with Thomas' and Schofield's armies, before he allowed McPherson to make more than a diversion on Johnston's rear, so that the latter, being warned in time, withdrew safely. At Kenesaw he assaulted impregnable works to teach his veterans that flanking was not the only means of attacking an enemy, and failed at a cost of tw