Browsing named entities in General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War. You can also browse the collection for Dalton, Ga. (Georgia, United States) or search for Dalton, Ga. (Georgia, United States) in all documents.

Your search returned 93 results in 10 document sections:

General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 7 (search)
my reply to it. Congress calls for the correspondence. my letter not furnished. both letters. events during the fall. ordered to take command of the army at Dalton. arrive on 26th and assume command on 27th of December. About seven o'clock in the morning of the 9th of July General Sherman, with three corps of the Federalcavalry near Bolton's Depot, directing me to transfer the command of the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana to Lieutenant-General Polk, and to repair to Dalton and assume that of the Army of Tennessee; and promising that I should find instructions there. In obedience to these orders, I transferred my command to Lieutassume that of the Army of Tennessee; and promising that I should find instructions there. In obedience to these orders, I transferred my command to Lieutenant-General Polk as soon as possible, proceeded to Dalton without delay, arrived in the evening of the 2G6th, and assumed the command of the Army of Tennessee on the 27th.
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 9 (search)
letter of instruction from Secretary of War at Dalton. my reply. letter from the President. mine camp, Colonel Ives, who has just returned from Dalton, presented a not unfavorable view of the materssionary Ridge had rejoined their regiments at Dalton. According to these figures, forty thousand mh .too favorable. That reply was as follows; Dalton, January 2, 1864. Mr. President: I have recTunnel Hill, on the railroad, seven miles from Dalton, in the direction of Ringgold; his pickets on near Hindman's; Walker's, three miles east of Dalton; and Cheatham's, near and to the south of Walkng brigade near Tuscumbia. The position of Dalton had little to recommend it as a defensive one. Mill-Creek Gap, three miles and a half beyond Dalton, but very obliquely, the course of the road be to Resaca or Calhoun-points on the route from Dalton to Atlanta-or flank movement in that directionimmediate front instead, to gain possession of Dalton, and as far south of that as possible. Genera[21 more...]
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 10 (search)
chmond; for the Federal army at Knoxville, equally distant from Chattanooga and Dalton, was exactly between Longstreet and our main army-and, to unite near Kingston aited forces on the road from that place to Chattanooga, at the point nearest to Dalton, and employing our cavalry, with its artillery, to close the navigation of the , one of the most efficient officers of the Quartermaster's Department, came to Dalton. He was instructed, as he informed me, to superintend the procuring the numbert means of enabling us to go forward was to send the proposed reenforcements to Dalton at once; then, should the enemy take the initiative, as was almost certain, we e, General Pendleton, commander of the artillery of General Lee's army, came to Dalton from Richmond. He was sent by the President, to explain his Excellency's wishe and ninety-two cavalry. This was the entire strength of the army, at and near Dalton, at that time. Canty's brigade (thirteen hundred and ninety-five effectives) i
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 11 (search)
nson's; and Cleburne's immediately in front of Dalton, and behind Mill Creek, facing toward Clevelany of Federal troops that might advance through Dalton. The Federal army, approaching Resaca on tde good by us, would reach the same point from Dalton. Our course in remaining at Dalton until tnd Mill-Creek Gap, and our five divisions near Dalton were kept in their positions in the lingering teen days, in the direction of Adairsville and Dalton, and our rear-guards were then skirmishing wite Federal army presented itself before them at Dalton; and, though I say it, full of devotion to himhe effective strength of this army at and near Dalton was forty thousand four hundred and sixty-foure's operations in May of the same year. At Dalton, the great numerical superiority of the Federat would have been utterly disastrous. Between Dalton and the Chattahoochee, we could have given batossible of the railroad between that river and Dalton. All failed, because too weak. We could neve[11 more...]
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 12 (search)
the next day. In his brief report by telegraph, General Hardee stated that his loss in killed, wounded, and missing, was about five hundred; prisoners taken next day, said that theirs was above three thousand; as reported to General Sherman, it was seventy-seven killed, and four hundred and seven wounded. That report, if correct, proves that the soldiers of General Sherman's army had been demoralized by their course of life on Southern plantations. Those soldiers, when fighting between Dalton and Atlanta, could not have been driven back repeatedly by a fourth of their number, with a loss so utterly insignificant. It is unaccountable, too, that the party fighting under cover and holding its ground should have a hundred and eight men killed, and that unsheltered and repulsed, but seventy-seven. It was ascertained, on the 17th, that the troops with which Lieutenant-General Hardee was engaged the day before were not marching toward Raleigh; but no precise intelligence of the mo
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 14 (search)
been completed. The troops referred to were to be sent to Dalton when all preparations for a long march should be concluded This made it almost certain that we should be attacked at Dalton It is admitted in the message that this occurred: While t93. enumerated by General Bragg had reinforced the army at Dalton, the President might have had a right to hope for such a vons almost impregnable. None such are to be found between Dalton and Atlanta. Wherever the two armies confronted each otheasonable chances of success. We were compelled to abandon Dalton, not by the extension of a flank, but by the march of the to them, Less than a sixth of the number were killed. At Dalton, and thence to the Etowah, four hundred and forty-four werter of April 10, 1868, already quoted: The country between Dalton and Atlanta is, for the most part, open, intersected by nu marvelous ingenuity and judgment. This was the case near Dalton, Resaca, Cassville, New-Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Pea
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Memorandum for Colonel Browne, Aide-de-camp. (search)
Memorandum for Colonel Browne, Aide-de-camp. Dalton, February 8, 1864. The effective total of the army (infantry and artillery), thirty-six thousand one hundred and eleven. At the end of Dond: I have urged General S. D. Lee to send his cavalry at once to break the railroad between Dalton and the Etowah. If you agree with me in the opinion that it can at this time render no service halmers, and Roddy, all in Eastern Alabama, and operate in the enemy's rear between his army and Dalton. J. E. Johnston, General. Near Marietta, June 28, 1864. General S. Cooper, Richmond: I hlry, twenty-three hundred and ninety-two. This was the entire strength of the army, at and near Dalton, at that date. 2. The movement from Dalton began on the 12th of May. On that day Loring's diDalton began on the 12th of May. On that day Loring's division, Army of the Mississippi, and Canty's division, joined at Resaca, with about eight thousand effectives. French's division, same army, joined near Kingston several days later (about four thousa
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Consolidated Summaries in the armies of Tennessee and Mississippi during the campaign commencing May 7, 1864, at Dalton, Georgia, and ending after the engagement with the enemy at Jonesboroa and the evacuation at Atlanta, furnished for the information of General Joseph E. Johnston (search)
Consolidated Summaries in the armies of Tennessee and Mississippi during the campaign commencing May 7, 1864, at Dalton, Georgia, and ending after the engagement with the enemy at Jonesboroa and the evacuation at Atlanta, furnished for the informidated Summary of Casualties of the Armies of Tennessee and Mississippi in the Series of Engagements around and from Dalton, Georgia, to the Etowah River, for the Period commencing May 7, and ending May 20, 1864: Corps.Killed.Wounded.Total Hardeppi1289261,054 4683,4803,948 Consolidation of the above three reports is as follows: Corps.Killed.Wounded.Total Dalton to Etowah River4442,8283,272 New Hope Church3091,9212,230 Around Marietta4683,4803,948 1,2218,2299,450 Consolidated and are in my opinion correct. (Signed) A. J. Foard, Medical Director late Army of Tennessee. Note.-The Atlanta-Dalton campaign began on May 7th, and ended on the 1st of September, 1864, and the above reports are exact copies of those made
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Memoranda of the operations of my corps, while under the command of General J. E. Johnston, in the Dalton and Atlanta, and North Carolina campaigns. (search)
Memoranda of the operations of my corps, while under the command of General J. E. Johnston, in the Dalton and Atlanta, and North Carolina campaigns. Dalton and Atlanta. At the beginning of the campaign my corps consisted of Cheatham's, Cleburne's, Walker's, and Bate's divisions (about twenty thousand muskets), and four battalions of artillery. May 7th. Cheatham's and Bate's divisions sent to report to Hood, and put in position at and to the right of Mill Creek Gap, where they wermanding, I have the honor to herewith submit the operations of the troops of my command since the 7th of May. On that day Major-General Stewart, with his division, took position at Mill Creek Gap in Rocky Face Mountain, three miles northeast of Dalton, the enemy appearing in his immediate front. In the afternoon Major-General Bate, with his division, reported to me, and was placed in position on the left of Stewart, and west of railroad. On the 8th Major-General Cheatham, with his division,
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Report of Hon. L. T. Wigfall in the Senate of the Confederate States, march 18, 1865. (search)
total of General Johnston's army, at and near Dalton, to be seventy thousand on the 6th of May, 186to the twenty-nine hundred and seventy-four at Dalton, makes the four thousand. Estimating his cavastimated General Johnston's forces at and near Dalton by twenty-five thousand and eighty-seven men. If General Hood, by the term at and near Dalton, refers to the forces after this date received before this, the army was assembled at and near Dalton, and within the easy direction of a single comeeks after they were alleged to be at and near Dalton, and amounted to less than nineteen thousand e 26th of May, instead of seventy thousand, at Dalton, on the 6th--a difference of six thousand, not for want of reports. He had four thousand at Dalton, and received four thousand (Polk's) at Adairsruits were gathered. It is alleged that at Dalton the enemy was but little superior in numbers, General Hood to sustain his assertion that at Dalton the enemy was but little superior to us in num[2 more...]