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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) 1,463 127 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 1,378 372 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 810 42 Browse Search
John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies 606 8 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 565 25 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 473 17 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 373 5 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 372 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 277 1 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 232 78 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
econd division is said to have been at least three hundred men. The First and Third divisions, which were in support, lost about two hundred and fifty. From Atlanta — battle of the 6th--Sherman's Communications cut. Under its "General News" head, the Gazette says: There can no longer be any doubt that the battle of the 6th of August, before Atlanta, was quite a serious affair. For several days previous, General Sherman had been massing his troops on the right, and making all necessary preparations for a determined assault on Hood's works. The object of the Federal commander was to force his way to the Macon road and compel Hood either to accept battle in the open field or to evacuate Atlanta. The movement was intended to have been secret, sudden, and, it was hope, decisive. Delays, however, occurred. On the 4th and 5th, the troops of the Twenty-third and Fourteenth corps were in line of battle, and positions were assigned them from which an engagement was to
The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], Sherman's Murders. (search)
Sherman's Murders. --On the 3d, a lady, a gentleman and his little daughter were killed in Atlanta by fragments of Yankee shells, and about eleven o'clock at night, Mr. Warner, the Superintendent of the Gas Works, and his little daughter, lying in the same bed, were killed by a round shot. The child was severed in two, dying instantly; the father had both thighs cut off close to the body, and lived about two hours.