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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), chapter 177 (search)
No. 170. report of Capt. Charles M. Barnett, Battery I, Second Illinois Light artillery. Hdqrs. Battery I, Second Illinois Light Arty., Jonesborough, Ga., September 6, 1864. Major: I have the honor to tender the following report of the operations of this battery during the campaign in Georgia of 1864: On the 2d of May, 1864, I marched from Rossville, Ga. (attached to the Second Division, Fourteenth Army Corps, Brig. Gen. J. C. Davis commanding), to Ringgold, Ga. On the 5th marched for Cherokee Springs. 7th, marched at daylight for Tunnel Hill, arriving there at 11 a. m.; fired sixty rounds at a rebel battery, which retired. 9th, worked all night, placing three guns in position on a hill fronting Rocky Face Ridge, and relieved three guns on the left of the railroad with the other three. 10th, fired 196 rounds at the enemy; at night fell back, and took the harness off for the first time in thirty-six hours. 11th, placed three pieces in the gap on the railroad and fired fo
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), chapter 181 (search)
No. 174. report of Lieut. Joseph McKnight, Fifth Wisconsin Battery. headquarters Fifth Wisconsin Battery, Jonesborough, September 6, 1864. Sir: I have the honor to herewith transmit a report of the operations of the Fifth Wisconsin Battery, Veteran Volunteers, during the late Northern Georgia campaign. The battery, commanded by Capt. George Q. Gardner, broke camp at Rossville, Ga., May 2, 1864, and advanced to Ringgold, Ga., where it remained May 5, when it marched to Cherokee Springs. On May 7 it marched with the Second Division, Fourteenth Army Corps, to Tunnel Hill, and on the 9th went into position in front of Rocky Face Ridge, where it remained until the 12th, when it marched to the right, passing through Snake Creek Gap during the night, and on the afternoon of the 13th marched with the Second Division to re-enforce General Johnson, commanding First Division, Fourteenth Army Corps, six miles distant. At the battle of Resaca, Ga., May 14, at 3 p. m. the battery, by
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ., Chapter XV (search)
fectually. I then determined to march directly to Rossville, and from there effect ajunction with Thomas by the Lafayette road. I reached Rossville about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, bringing with me eight guns, forty-sixley road. The head of my column passed through Rossville, appearing upon Thomas's left about 6 o'clock in t to hold on, and aid in covering his withdrawal to Rossville. I accompanied him back to Rossville, and whenRossville, and when we reached the skirt of the little hamlet General Thomas halted and we dismounted. Going into one of the anglexisted among the troops that had preceded us into Rossville. This done, I lay down at the foot of a tree, nd then there was much confusion prevailing around Rossville; and, this condition of things doubtless increasind. The night of the 21st the army moved back from Rossville, and my division, as the rear-guard of the Twentieorning of the 22d. Our unmolested retirement from Rossville lent additional force to the belief that the enemy
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ., Chapter XVI (search)
nd that I was to support it with my division and prevent Wood's right flank from being turned by an advance of the enemy on Moore's road or from the direction of Rossville. For this duty I marched my division out of the works about 2 P. M., and took up a position on Bushy Knob. Shortly after we reached this point Wood's division and fearing that Hooken was in trouble I sent a staff-officer to find out whether he needed assistance, which I thought could be given by a demonstration toward Rossville. The officer soon returned with the report that Hooker was all right, that the cannonading was only a part of a little rear-guard fight, two sections of artilleed. Meanwhile Hooker and Palmer were swinging across Chattanooga Valley, using me as a pivot for the purpose of crossing Missionary Ridge in the neighborhood of Rossville. In the early part of the day I had driven in the Confederate pickets in my front, so as to prolong my line of battle on that of Wood, the necessity of continui
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1864, January (search)
January 19. This evening a party scouting for Colonel Williams, in command of the military post at Rossville, Ark., returned to camp, having captured in the Magazine Mountains, some fifteen miles east of the post, the county records of Vernon and Cedar Counties, Mo. The books and papers so captured and retained were worth one million dollars to those counties.--Colonel Clayton attacked and routed Shelby's rebel force, twenty miles below Pine Bluff, Ark., on the Monticello Railroad. The fight lasted half an hour, when the enemy fled, pursued by Colonel Clayton, with his command, for two hours and a half. The rebels were driven seven miles. Shelby was badly beaten, and the rout was complete. Shelby's force was estimated at eight hundred. Colonel Clayton marched sixty miles in twenty-four hours, and made fight and gained a victory.--an unsuccessful attempt was made to burn the residence of Jefferson Davis, at Richmond, Va.--A sale of confiscated estates took place at Beaufort,
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1864, January (search)
kets and captured a company of rebel cavalry. The rebels retreated from Tunnel Hill during the night. They lost thirty-two killed and wounded. The Union casualties were two wounded. The object of the reconnaissance was effected. The following report was sent by General Thomas, from his headquarters at Chattanooga, to the National war department: Colonel Boone, with a force of four hundred and fifty men, Twenty-eighth Kentucky mounted infantry, and Fourth Michigan cavalry, left Rossville January twenty-first, moved through McLamore's caves, crossed Lookout Mountain into Brownton Valley; thence across Taylor's Ridge to eight miles beyond Deertown, toward Ashton, attacked camp of home guards, Colonel Culbertson, commanding, routed them, destroying camp, considerable number of arms, and other property, and retired to camp without any casualties in his force. Friday, twenty-second January, sent flag of truce under Colonel Burke, with Ohio infantry, with rebel surgeons and a p
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 45 (search)
teenth to report to Major-General Granger at Rossville, which he did at daylight on the twentieth, d the approaches from the Chickamauga toward Rossville, and the extension of our left. The roar use his discretion, determined to retire on Rossville, where they arrived in good order, took postent out rations and ammunition to meet me at Rossville. I determined to hold the position until nisix A. M. on the road about half-way between Rossville and Chattanooga, to cover the movement. Thear of the line of battle, and marched toward Rossville, to endeavor to form a junction with the trooga, he directed me to go out on the road to Rossville, collecting all the troops possible, and repnolds, my left resting on the La Fayette and Rossville road, near McNamus's house, the right thrownearly in the direction of the La Fayette and Rossville road. I found myself the only general officived orders from General Thomas to retire on Rossville, which I did quietly and in perfect order, t[36 more...]
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 125 (search)
ds, and as long as possible, and if over-powered, to fall back to Rossville, renew the fight there, and then, if he could not sustain himself another route, directed the two brigades to fall back at once to Rossville, get a supply of rations for three days, and hold themselves in rck with General Granger's troops, and remained in the vicinity of Rossville until the sounds of battle in the direction whence I had come att had but a handful left as it retired, toward nightfall, upon the Rossville road, but the men must have done gallant fighting or they would nat it might mean. A longitudinal gap in Mission Ridge admits the Rossville road into Chattanooga Valley, and skirts along a large corn-fieldwas sent by the latter to bring over an ammunition-train from the Rossville road. The train had fallen into the hands of the enemy, but the e army of the Cumberland. At night General Thomas fell back to Rossville, four miles from Chattanooga, around and in which city the army l
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 187 (search)
the spur of Lookout Mountain, and encamp at Rossville, distant five miles from Chattanooga. Gener Harker, with his brigade, was moved back to Rossville, and by night made a reconnoissance up the Rdirection, while the road to Chattanooga via Rossville is nearly north or south. We hold the riversterly along the Chickamauga and the road to Rossville. On the morning of the nineteenth I rode totain if the main road from Gordon's Mills to Rossville was clear, and if practicable to ascertain i that he had gone to Chattanooga. I rode to Rossville, where I expected to find some troops and toch covered the road leading from Ringgold to Rossville, but was easily made to keep a respectful dit daylight he broke up camp, started back to Rossville, and arrived there at one o'clock P. M. of tgned to him, and held it until he marched to Rossville from the field of battle, at ten o'clock P. st, while halting near Kelly's house, on the Rossville and Lafayette road, I received an order from[17 more...]
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 215 (search)
is sixty-five miles south-west of Chattanooga, on the Coosa River, at the point of confluence of the Etawah and Estanalsh. The wagon-road from Chattanooga to Rome, known as the Lafayette Road, crosses Mission Ridge into Chickamauga Valley at Rossville, and, proceeding in a south-westerly direction, crosses Chickamauga Creek, eleven miles from Chattanooga, at Lee and Gordon's Mills, and, passing to the east of Pigeon Mountain, goes through Lafayette, distant some twenty-two miles from Chattannt to the rear, and caused the captured banners to be collected to be sent to Richmond, and prisoners to be counted and sent to the rear. He then ordered the troops under arms, and marched them down the Chattanooga road until they came near to Rossville, where Forrest and Pegram were thundering away with their batteries at the retreating enemy, there had them filed to the right, and thrown down the Chickamauga Creek, that they might rest from their fatigues and be in good position to move upon
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