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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 111 1 Browse Search
John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies 86 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 76 0 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 46 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 42 0 Browse Search
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army 33 1 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 17 5 Browse 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. 16 4 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 5. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 10 2 Browse Search
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. 10 0 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 14: Sherman's campaign in Georgia. (search)
. siege of Atlanta raised, 391. battles at Jonesboroa, 392. Hood's flight from Atlanta, 393. Shek at Fairborn Station, and the other at near Jonesboroa, some twenty miles south of Atlanta. When d, crossing the Flint River half a mile from Jonesboroa, approached it at that point. He encounteredivided his army, and sent one half of it to Jonesboroa, under Hardee, and with the remainder he helrried the Confederate line of works covering Jonesboroa on the north, and captured General Govan and Hardee had fled, and so ended the battle of Jonesboroa. At two o'clock in the morning Sept. 1. pursuit of Hardee. He Battle-ground near Jonesboroa. this is a view of the portion of the battle-ground near Jonesboroa, where the Confederate works crossed the railway and the common highway, tlanta, Hood, who was joined by Hardee, near Jonesboroa, and was otherwise re-enforced, flanked Sheray to Richmond, in Virginia, by way of Knoxville. See page 284. Tail-piece — Tank at Jonesboroa[8 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)
bewildered and paralyzed the inhabitants sand the armed militia, and very little resistance was offered to foragers, who swept over the country in all directions. Kilpatrick's march from Atlanta to Gordon had appeared to them, like a meteor-flash to the superstitious, mysterious and evil-boding. At East Point he met some of Wheeler's cavalry, which Hood had left behind to operate Against Sherman. These were attacked and driven across the Flint River. Kilpatarick crossed that stream at Jonesboroa, and pursued them to Lovejoy, where Murray's brigade, dismounted, expelled them from intrenchments, captured the works, took fifty prisoners, and, in the pursuit, Atkins's brigade seized and held two of their guns. Pressing forward, Kilpatrick went through Macdonough and Monticello to Clinton, and then made a dash upon Macon, driving in some of Wheeler's cavalry there, threatening the strongly-manned works, burning a train of cars, tearing up the railway, and spreading the greatest conste
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 18: capture of Fort Fisher, Wilmington, and Goldsboroa.--Sherman's March through the Carolinas.--Stoneman's last raid. (search)
iumphantly that the aid of the former was not needed, and he was ordered to march eastward and destroy the Virginia and Tennessee railroad, as far toward Lynchburg as possible. He concentrated the cavalry brigades of Colonels Palmer, Miller, and Brown, of Gillem's division, about six thousand strong, at Mossy Creek, on the 20th of March. He moved eastward to Bull's Gap, where he divided his forces, sending Miller toward Bristol, to make a feint, and moving with the rest of his command to Jonesboroa, when he crossed over Stone Mountain into North Carolina, to Boone. There, after a sharp skirmish, March 28, 1865. he captured two hundred Home Guards. Thence he moved through mountain gaps to Wilkesboroa, where the advance skirmished March 29. and captured prisoners and stores. Continuing his march, he crossed the Yadkin River April 2. at Jonesville, and, turning northward, went on to Cranberry Plain, in Carroll County, Virginia. From that point he sent Colonel Miller to Wytheville
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
truction of stores at caused by Forrest, 3.418. Johnston, Gen. A. S., in command of the Confederate Western Department, 2.189; killed at the battle of Shiloh, 2.275. Johnston, Gen. J. E., withdraws the rebel forces from Harper's Ferry, 1.521; position and numbers of troops under before the movement on Manassas, 1.583; wounded at Fair Oaks Station, 2.412; movements of for the relief of Vicksburg, 2.624; superseded by Hood, 3.383; details of the surrender of to Sherman, 3.571-3.575. Jonesboroa, battle of, 3.392. Jones, Col. J. R., death of at Bachelor's Creek, 3.185. Judge, Thomas J., commissioner to Washington from Alabama, 1.286. K. Kanawha Valley, operations of Gen. Cox in; 1.537; operations of Rosecrans against Floyd in, 2.101. Kane, George P., an instrument of Conspirators in Baltimore, 1.281; machinations of, 1.551. Kansas, Gen. Hunter's operations in, 2.184. Kautz, Gen., his raid against railways south and southwest of Richmond, 3.323. Kautz and Wi