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Heston (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
n of my orders for the time being, and directed General Kilpatrick to make up a well appointed force of five thousand cavalry, and to move from his camp about Sandtown, during the night of the 18th, to the West Point road, and break it good near Fairborn; then to proceed across to the Macon road and tear it up thoroughly; to avoid, as far as possible, the enemy's infantry, but to attack any cavalry he could find. General Sherman's official report, September 15, 1864. Sherman hoped this expedi marched for their protection. In the grand movement that followed, the Fourth Corps (Stanley's) was on the extreme left, nearest the enemy. The Army of the Tennessee (Howard's) drew out and moved rapidly in a circuit to the West Point road at Fairborn, where the Army of the Cumberland (Thomas's) came into position just above Howard's at Red Oak, and the Army of the Ohio (Schofield's) closed in upon Thomas's left, only a short distance from the strong Confederate works covering the junction of
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
angled with vines, and compelling Operations in Tennessee, Georgia, and Northern Alabama. Johnston to corienced officer, who had performed much service in Tennessee. with the expectation of finding Howard's forces iove Wheeler off. The latter then pushed up into East Tennessee, made a circuit around Knoxville by way of Stra and Lebanon. Rousseau, Steedman, and Granger, in Tennessee, were on the alert, and they soon drove the raiderfensive, and, in all probability, attempt to seize Tennessee, Sherman sent Sept. 28. General Thomas, his seconssouri; See page 280. also all the garrisons in Tennessee, and all the cavalry of the Military Division, exc order all the mounted men serving in Kentucky and Tennessee, and report to General Thomas. Thus the latter ofngth believed to be sufficient to keep Hood out of Tennessee; and he was invested with unlimited discretionary eyed by railway from that town to Cleveland, in East Tennessee, on our way to Richmond, in Virginia, by way of
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
tody of a peaceful ordnance sergeant: seized and made prisoners of war the very garrisons sent to protect your people against negroes and Indians, long before any overt act by the (to you) hateful Lincoln Government; tried to force Kentucky and Missouri into rebellion in spite of themselves; falsified the vote of Louisiana; turned loose your privateers to plunder unarmed ships; expelled Union families by the thousand; burned their houses, and declared by act of Congress the confiscation of all full power over all the troops under his command, excepting four corps, with which he intended to march from Atlanta to the sea. He also gave him the two divisions of General A. J. Smith, then returning from the business of driving Price out of Missouri; See page 280. also all the garrisons in Tennessee, and all the cavalry of the Military Division, excepting a single division under Kilpatrick, which he reserved for operations in Georgia. General Wilson had just arrived from the front of Pet
Bermuda Hundred (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
ode in the case of an attempt to clear them out. --Sherman's Report. In an interesting narrative of the services of the First District of Columbia Cavalry, while it was in the division of General Kautz, kindly furnished me by Colonel D. S. Curtiss, a member of that regiment, and the most conspicuous leader of charges upon railways in the business of destroying them, a vivid account is given of the methods employed in effectually ruining the roads. In his account of Kautz's raid from Bermuda Hundred, by way of Chesterfield Court-House [see page 328], Colonel Curtiss says, speaking of the destruction of a railway track: It was done by detailing the men, dismounted, along the track, with levers, who lifted it up. All moved uniformly at the word of command, turning over long spaces, like sward or land-furrows: Then knocking the ties loose from the rails, the former were piled up, the latter laid upon them, and a fire kindled under, which, burning away, soon caused the rails to bend so
Dalton, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
io near Red Clay, on the Georgia line north of Dalton. The Confederate army then lay in and about Ddetermined to turn the Confederate position at Dalton, and for that purpose he sought a passage of tks at and near Resaca, on the railway south of Dalton. These works were too formidable to warrant aome cavalry left to menace Johnston's front at Dalton, was marching in the grand turning movement, wnd Resaca. This compelled Johnston to abandon Dalton, and fall back, closely pursued by Howard, to Johnston had removed families all the way from Dalton down. You, yourself, he said, burned dwellingsgrace because of Johnston's falling back from Dalton to Atlanta, and said, with the fact before himroach of Cox, hastily withdrew and fled toward Dalton, leaving behind them two hundred and thirty ofed, and left the horrid foot-prints of war. At Dalton, a once flourishing Georgia town, where Bragg n upon the works of man. Ruin Campaign from Dalton to Atlanta. was seen on every side; but on an[6 more...]
Decatur, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
st the Augusta railway, at some point east of Decatur, and near Stone Mountain. In obedience to erson struck the railway seven miles east of Decatur, on the 18th, July, 1864. and with Garrard'sck. At about the same time, Schofield seized Decatur. McPherson entered it on the 19th, when the le, rapidly diminishing in radius, moved from Decatur on the direct road to Atlanta. Logan's corpsarrard and his horsemen at Covington, between Decatur and View on the Atlanta battle-ground. te of one of the roads leading from Atlanta to Decatur, which did great execution on the 22d of Julyt. This tree was between the railway and the Decatur road, and the writer sketched it, in May, 186of the Tennessee from his extreme left on the Decatur road, to his extreme right on Proctor's Creeks. Sweeping around eastward again, he reached Decatur on the 22d, Aug., 1864. and on the same day e direction of West Point, and Schofield near Decatur. The commander-in-chief made his Headquarter[1 more...]
Palmetto (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
full of the evidences of the desperation of a charlatan, satisfied that his tricks were discovered. He felt the chill of the silence and contempt of the thinking men and women who listened to him; and he went on to the Headquarters of Hood, at Palmetto, on the Atlanta and Lagrange railway, with the most gloomy forebodings of the future. In the mean time, Wheeler, who, as we have seen, had struck the railway at Calhoun, See page 391. had swept around so as. to avoid the National forces at Alad, and four hundred made prisoners, with about eight hundred muskets. Corse lost seven hundred and seven men, and was severely wounded in the face. Among the many badly hurt were Colonels Tourtellotte and Howell. When Davis visited Hood at Palmetto, See note 8, page 896. he instructed him to draw Sherman out of Georgia, for his presence there was causing alarming disaffection to the cause of the conspirators. At this time there was great disaffection to the Confederate cause in Georg
Stone Mountain (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
ns to move forward by Buckland. Schofield was ordered to move by Cross Keys, at the same time, and with McPherson, who was on the extreme left, at Roswell, to march rapidly against the Augusta railway, at some point east of Decatur, and near Stone Mountain. In obedience to these orders, the whole army made a right-wheel movement, and closed in upon Atlanta from the northeast. McPherson struck the railway seven miles east of Decatur, on the 18th, July, 1864. and with Garrard's cavalry and Farther to the north and northwest were Lost and Pine mountains and the Allatoona hills; and eastward, away beyond Atlanta, at a distance of thirty-six miles, arose, seemingly from a level country covered with forest, the magnificent dome of Stone Mountain. The air was full of little showers in all directions, which sometimes veiled what we desired to see; and just as we had finished our sketches and observations, one passed over Kenesaw, and drenched us gently while we descended to the rollin
Pine Mountain (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
ps pressed over the rugged ground with difficulty, fighting at almost every step, and on the morning of the 15th they found that the Confederates had abandoned Pine Mountain, and taken position on their line of intrenchments between Kenesaw and Lost mountains. At the time of this advance, General Polk, formerly Protestant Episcoshop of the diocese of Louisiana, was killed instantly, by a piece of shell which passed through his body. Polk, Johnston, and Hardee, were upon the summit of Pine Mountain when the cannonade commenced, reconnoitering. Seeing the group, General Thomas, it is said, ordered a shot to be fired at them from Knapp's battery. This cauance, at the center of the picture, rises lost Mountain; and on the extreme right, the higher elevation, seen beyond the two large stones in the foreground, is Pine Mountain or Knob, on which General Polk was killed. A little to the left of lost Mountain was New hope Church. Lost Mountain, and the long line of works connecting
Tunnel Hill (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
for the great march to the sea was concentrated around that doomed city. The writer; accompanied by his traveling companions already mentioned (Messrs, Dreer and Greble), visited the theater of the Georgia campaign in 1834, from Dalton to Atlanta, in the delightful month of May, 1866. We left Chattanooga early on the morning of the 15th, May, 1866. by railway. After passing through the tunnel at the Missionaries' Ridge, we crossed the Chickamauga River several times before reaching Tunnel Hill, in Rocky Face Ridge. The country in that region was quite picturesque, but utterly desolate in appearance. Over it the great armies had marched, and left the horrid foot-prints of war. At Dalton, a once flourishing Georgia town, where Bragg and Johnston had their quarters for several months, we saw she first terrible effects of the campaign upon the works of man. Ruin Campaign from Dalton to Atlanta. was seen on every side; but on an eminence on the east of the railway, were heavy
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