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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: November 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
hy sources, we conclude that Sherman's main army is operating in the country embraced between the railroads running from Atlanta to Augusta, from Atlanta to Macon, and the Georgia Central railroad. He is in the very heart and centre of the State, hAtlanta to Macon, and the Georgia Central railroad. He is in the very heart and centre of the State, his infantry columns advancing on Milledgeville.--While this is the direction of his main column, one body of his cavalry has advanced to within a short distance of Augusta, and the other has struck the Georgia Central road, leading from Macon to Savndeavor to make it as clear as we can: Two railroads, besides the Chattanooga, which runs north, have their rise in Atlanta. The Georgia railroad runs nearly due east, strikes the South Carolina boundary at Hamburg; becomes thence the South Carolina railroad, and terminates in Charleston. The Macon railroad runs from Atlanta due south to Barneville; thence at right angles to its former course in an easterly direction to Macon. Thence to Savannah, pursuing a nearly southeastern course,
The Daily Dispatch: November 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
perhaps Milledgeville. It is reported that Sherman has applied the torch to a large portion of Atlanta and has burnt Jonesboro' and McDonough. It is also reported that he has destroyed the railroad from Atlanta to the Chattahoochee and burnt the bridge at the river on that road. The foregoing we deem to be reliable information, and it is all we have at the time we write. We learn from a army, at Jonesboro' and McDonough, and part near Covington; that he had burned Rome, Marietta, Atlanta, the bridge over the Chattahoochee, and was tearing up the railroad behind him. Our carefuort Sherman advancing on that city at the head of five corps. He had burned Rome, Marietta and Atlanta, and occupied Jonesboro' on Wednesday. It is further reported on the streets that all the the enemy near Jonesboro'. Result unknown. It is also rumored that Sherman, before he left Atlanta, destroyed several bridges on the Western and Atlantic railroad; and that he is also devastatin