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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)
abitation of a band of robbers, who murdered and plundered emigrants and traders when descending the Tennessee River. through the Lookout Mountain passes, and with his cavalry on his extreme right, threaten Bragg's railway communications between Dalton and Resaca Bridge, while his left and center should move through other passes upon the Confederate front Anticipating this, when he discovered that the main army was below, Bragg abandoned Chattanooga, Sept. 7, 8, 1863. passed through the gaps ot he supposed to be a flying adversary. He ordered Crittenden to call his brigades from across the river, near Chattanooga, and leaving one of them there to garrison the town, push on to the East Chickamauga Valley and the railway to Ringgold or Dalton to intercept the march of Buckner from East Tennessee, or strike the Confederate rear, as circumstances might determine. Thomas, who had just passed through Stevens's and Cooper's gaps of Lookout Mountain, into McLemore's Cove, was directed to p
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)
ed heavily to the right, to meet what seemed to be the point chosen for the most formidable assault on his lines, and to protect the railway between the Ridge and Dalton, to which his supplies were sent up from Atlanta. He had placed Lieutenant-General W. J. Hardee in command of his right wing, facing Sherman, and Major-General J General Gist, and captured three of his guns and some prisoners. There Sherman halted, and sent Howard to destroy a large section of the railway which connected Dalton with Cleveland, and thus severed the communication between Bragg and Burnside. Hooker, meanwhile, had pushed on to Ringgold, Nov. 27, 1868. Osterhaus in advanicers and men exhibit great skill and daring in their operations in the field, but the highest praise is also due to the commanding general for his admirable dispositions for dislodging the enemy from a position apparently Impregnable. The Confederate retreat was continued to Dalton, where the army established a fortified camp.
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 8: Civil affairs in 1863.--military operations between the Mountains and the Mississippi River. (search)
ately conquered, under Bragg, which is now in the vicinity of Dalton, in Georgia, commanded by General Joseph E. Johnston. It is about fifty Confederates was about the same. When General Johnston, then at Dalton, in Northern Georgia (where the railway up from Atlanta forks, the Feb. 22, 1864. to counteract it. These troops moved directly upon Dalton. The divisions of Jefferson C. Davis, Johnson, and Baird marched ached the range of hills called Rocky Face Ridge, one of which, near Dalton, rises into a lofty peak, called Buzzard's Roost. Through a deep ghen it was found that the Confederates were still retreating toward Dalton. The Nationals moved on into Rocky Face Valley, skirmishing heav railway, in May, 1866. the view is from a point a little south of Dalton. ordered back the divisions of Hardee sent to re-enforce Polk, he r raid into Tennessee a few days after Palmer fell back from before Dalton. He extended it into Kentucky, and, under the inspiration of the t
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 10: the last invasion of Missouri.--events in East Tennessee.--preparations for the advance of the Army of the Potomac. (search)
principal places of conflict between Sherman and Johnston on our way to Atlanta from Chattanooga, we now journeyed back without halting until we reached Cleveland, the place of junction of the railways leading into the valley from Chattanooga and Dalton. There, at a little cottage-like inn, embowered in trees, and then sweetly perfumed by its garden of roses, we spent a night and part of a day, a portion of the time with Dr. Hunt, one of the stanch Unionists and patient sufferers of East Tennes crossing and Knoxville. That region is extremely fertile, and was then fast recovering its former beauty and fruitfulness under the hand of intelligent and industrious cultivators. It presented a great contrast to the region in Georgia between Dalton and Atlanta, which was yet in the desolate state in which Sherman and Johnston had left it. At Knoxville we were the guests of Governor Brownlow, whose name and deeds are so conspicuous in the annals of the Civil War in Tennessee. His house w
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 14: Sherman's campaign in Georgia. (search)
io near Red Clay, on the Georgia line north of Dalton. The Confederate army then lay in and about Ddetermined to turn the Confederate position at Dalton, and for that purpose he sought a passage of tks at and near Resaca, on the railway south of Dalton. These works were too formidable to warrant aome cavalry left to menace Johnston's front at Dalton, was marching in the grand turning movement, wnd Resaca. This compelled Johnston to abandon Dalton, and fall back, closely pursued by Howard, to Johnston had removed families all the way from Dalton down. You, yourself, he said, burned dwellingsgrace because of Johnston's falling back from Dalton to Atlanta, and said, with the fact before himroach of Cox, hastily withdrew and fled toward Dalton, leaving behind them two hundred and thirty ofed, and left the horrid foot-prints of war. At Dalton, a once flourishing Georgia town, where Bragg n upon the works of man. Ruin Campaign from Dalton to Atlanta. was seen on every side; but on an[6 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 15: Sherman's March to the sea.--Thomas's campaign in Middle Tennessee.--events in East Tennessee. (search)
loss of his adversary. During that time he had captured 11,857 men, officers and privates, besides 1,332 who had been exchanged, making a total of about 13,000. He had administered the oath of amnesty and submission to 2,207 deserters from the Confederate service, and had captured 72 serviceable guns and 8,079 small-arms. and gave orders for the proper distribution of his troops in winter cantonments at Eastport, in Northern Mississippi, at. Athens and Huntsville, in Alabama, and at Dalton, in Georgia. But General Grant and the War Department had decided that there should be no rest until the Rebellion should be crushed. Sherman had reached the sea, See page 414. and was prepared for a march northward through the Carolinas into Virginia, and the siege of Petersburg and Richmond was to be prosecuted with vigor. Accordingly, orders were issued Dec. 31, 1864. for Thomas to send Wood with the Fourth Corps to Huntsville, and to concentrate the troops of Smith, Schofield and Wilson
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
is, Gen. S. R., operations of in Arkansas, 2.250-2.260; his march from Batesville to the Mississippi, 2.525. Cushing, Lieut., destroys the ram Albemarle, 3.472. Custer, Gen., raid of to Berner's Bridge, 3.291. Custom-house at Charleston, seized by the State, 1.139. Cynthiana, burnt by the guerrilla Morgan, 3.232. D. Dahlgren, Admiral John A., in command of the sq<*>tadron off Charleston, 3.200. Dahlgren, Col., Ulric, raid of on the James River Canal, and death, 3.290. Dalton, Gen. Palmer's movement on, 3.241; visit of the author to in 1866. 3.399. Dana, expedition of from Vicksburg, 3.415. Davidson, Gen., expedition of from Baton Rouge, 3.415. Davis, Jefferson, Buchanan's indecision condemned by, 1.73; soft words of in the Senate, 1.81; his proposition to amend the Constitution, 1.220; chosen President of the Confederacy, 1.252; inauguration of, 1.257; his cabinet, 1.258; sketch of, 1.259; character of contrasted with that of Lincoln, 1.275; leaves Mont