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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 17 (search)
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, Chapter 16 : Atlanta campaign -battles about Kenesaw Mountain . June , 1864 . (search)
Chapter 16: Atlanta campaign-battles about Kenesaw Mountain. June, 1864.
On the 1st of June our three armies were well in hand, in the broken and densely-wooded country fronting the enemy intrenched at New Hope Church, about five miles north of Dallas.
General Stoneman's division of cavalry had occupied Allatoona, on the railroad, and General Garrard's division was at the western end of the pass, about Stilesboroa.
Colonel W. W. Wright, of the Engineers, was busily employed in repairing re concentrated, covering Marietta and the railroad.
These successive contractions of the enemy's line encouraged us and discouraged him, but were doubtless justified by sound reasons.
On the 20th Johnston's position was unusually strong.
Kenesaw Mountain was his salient; his two flanks were refused and covered by parapets and by Noonday and Nose's Creeks.
His left flank was his weak point, so long as he acted on the defensive, whereas, had he designed to contract the extent of his line for
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 21 (search)