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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
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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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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 19 (search)
boldly against the railroad below Atlanta, and at the same time to send all the cavalry around by the right and left to make a lodgment on the Macon road about Jonesboroa. All the orders were given, and the morning of tile 27th was fixed for commencing the movement. On the 26th I received from General Stoneman a note asking permission (after having accomplished his orders to break up the railroad at Jonesboroa) to go on to Macon to rescue our prisoners of war known to be held there, and then to push on to Andersonville, where was the great depot of Union prisoners, in which were penned at one time as many as twenty-three thousand of our men, badly fedproposition, only modifying it by requiring him to send back General Garrard's division to its position on our left flank after he had broken up the railroad at Jonesboroa. Promptly, and on time, all got off, and General Dodge's corps (the Sixteenth, of the Army of the Tennessee) reached its position across Proctor's Creek the sa
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 20 (search)
cavalry movement against the railroad about Jonesboroa, and had heard from General Garrard that Sto destroyed three miles of the railroad about Jonesboroa, which he reckoned would take ten days to rech's to Renfrew's; and Howard was aiming for Jonesboroa. I was with General Thomas that day, whic General Howard, within a couple of miles of Jonesboroa). The next morning (August 31st) all moved s, and Thomas at two points between there and Jonesboroa. Howard found an intrenched foe (Hardee's corps) covering Jonesboroa, and his men began at once to dig their accustomed rifle-pits. Orders weranced. About 3 P. M. the enemy sallied from Jonesboroa against the Fifteenth corps, but was easily ps (Davis) closed down on the north front of Jonesboroa, connecting on his right with Howard, and hio hurry forward Stanley, so as to lap around Jonesboroa on the east, hoping thus to capture the wholhis act of cruelty, either in the defense of Jonesboroa, by General Hardee, or of Atlanta, by myself[8 more...]
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 22 (search)
but the fire did not reach the parts of Atlanta where the court-house was, or the great mass of dwelling-houses. The march from Atlanta began on the morning of November 15th, the right wing and cavalry following the railroad southeast toward Jonesboroa, and General Slocum with the Twentieth Corps leading off to the east by Decatur and Stone Mountain, toward Madison. These were divergent lines, designed to threaten both Macon and Augusta at the same time, so as to prevent a concentration at oThe first stage of the journey was, therefore, complete, and absolutely successful. General Howard soon reported by letter the operations of his right wing, which, on leaving Atlanta, had substantially followed the two roads toward Macon, by Jonesboroa and McDonough, and reached the Ocmulgee at Planters' Factory, which they crossed, by the aid of the pontoon-train, during the 18th and 19th of November. Thence, with the Seventeenth Corps (General Blair's) he (General Howard) had marched via M