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Warner (search for this): chapter 14
ferred to go south numbered 446 families, with an aggregate of 2,085 souls. These were transported in wagons, at the National expense, with furniture and clothes averaging 1,651 pounds for each family, to Rough and Ready, ten miles from Atlanta, while those who preferred to go North were taken at the Government cost by railway to Chattanooga. So humanely was the righteous act performed, that General Hood, through Major Clan, of his staff, tendered to General Sherman, Sept. 21. through Colonel Warner, of his staff, his acknowledgments in writing of the uniform courtesy which the Confederate General and his people had received on all occasions, in connection with the removal. While Sherman was resting his army at Atlanta, Hood, who was joined by Hardee, near Jonesboroa, and was otherwise re-enforced, flanked Sherman's right, crossed the Chattahoochee, and made a formidable raid upon his communications. It was at about this time that Jefferson Davis hastened from Richmond to Geo
G. T. Beauregard (search for this): chapter 14
to go in any other way, to write to him. I read all letters, he said, sent to me. He admitted that not many men between eighteen and forty-five years of age were left. Then, with low cunning, he tried to give an excuse for the detention of their friends as captives, and the horrors of Andersonville, the wailings from which might almost have reached his ears, by pretending that it was the fault of the United States Government that prisoners were not exchanged. Imitating the vulgarity of Beauregard, he said: Butler, the beast, with whom no commissioner of exchange would hold intercourse, had published in his newspapers that if we would consent to the exchange of negroes, all difficulties might be removed. This is reported as an effort of his to get himself whitewashed, by holding intercourse with gentlemen. The whole speech was 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 th
Joseph E. Johnston (search for this): chapter 14
uction of the Confederate army under General Joseph E. Johnston, then at Dalton, in Northern Georgian. Sherman, meanwhile, was severely pressing Johnston at Resaca, at all points, and a general engag, enveloping the former stronghold, compelled Johnston to evacuate it. The cavalry of Garrard and Stmanded the beautiful town of Marietta. There Johnston, with the Chattahoochee River at his back, deade disposition for breaking through those of Johnston between Kenesaw and Pine mountains. Hooker wTennessee, Georgia, and Northern Alabama. Johnston to contract his lines and take a position of lank and rear. But the skillful and vigilant Johnston had too quickly ba provided for the safety of not comprehend or would not acknowledge, and Johnston was ordered to surrender the command of the ament of military affairs, in not re-enforcing Johnston and Hood. Georgia, he said, had then fifty rse. At length, through the kind offices of Dr. Johnston, who had been a surgeon in the Confederate [35 more...]
Lightburn (search for this): chapter 14
he position of their foes. Lieutenant Reynolds was at the platform near the top of this tree, acting as signal officer when the Confederates made the charge mentioned in the text, and was shot dead at his post. This tree was between the railway and the Decatur road, and the writer sketched it, in May, 1866. Then advancing rapidly, they broke through the Union line between the divisions of Wood and Harrow, of Logan's corps, posted on each side the roads, and pushed back, in much disorder, Lightburn's brigade, about four hundred yards, to a point held by it the night before. The Confederates took possession of two important batteries, and held them, at the point of separation which they had made between the divisions of Wood and Harrow. Sherman, who was near, fully comprehending the importance of the unity of the army at that point, and of checking the farther advance of the Confederates, ordered up several of Schofield's batteries, and directed Logan to regain the ground just lost,
O. O. Howard (search for this): chapter 14
, to his extreme right on Proctor's Creek. General Howard had the chief supervision of the movement, were thrown swiftly against Logan's corps, on Howard's right, which was posted on a wooded ridge, ws Army of the Ohio and the Fourteenth Corps to Howard's right, and stretched an intrenched line nearnearest the enemy. The Army of the Tennessee (Howard's) drew out and moved rapidly in a circuit to m that city. Thomas struck it at Couch's, and Howard, crossing the Flint River half a mile from JonIt came very soon, for Hardee, hoping to crush Howard before he could receive re-enforcements, threwa desperate strife for victory. It was won by Howard. Hardee recoiled, and in his haste to escape the 8th they were all encamped around Atlanta, Howard in the direction of West Point, and Schofield cupied Atlanta; the Army of the Tennessee, General Howard commanding, was grouped about East Point; onfederate soldier in the battle there between Howard and Hardee, See page 393. accompanied us to[8 more...]
Benjamin F. Butler (search for this): chapter 14
way, to write to him. I read all letters, he said, sent to me. He admitted that not many men between eighteen and forty-five years of age were left. Then, with low cunning, he tried to give an excuse for the detention of their friends as captives, and the horrors of Andersonville, the wailings from which might almost have reached his ears, by pretending that it was the fault of the United States Government that prisoners were not exchanged. Imitating the vulgarity of Beauregard, he said: Butler, the beast, with whom no commissioner of exchange would hold intercourse, had published in his newspapers that if we would consent to the exchange of negroes, all difficulties might be removed. This is reported as an effort of his to get himself whitewashed, by holding intercourse with gentlemen. The whole speech was 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 wome
N. B. Forrest (search for this): chapter 14
His troops were pouring into a gap between Dodge and Blair; and just as McPherson had given an order for a brigade to move up and fill that gap, a Confederate sharp-shooter, of the same name, shot the brave leader dead. General McPherson had thrown himself flat on his horse, and attempted to fly, when Major McPherson, of the Fifth Regiment of the Confederate army, drew up his carbine, took deliberate aim, and shot the General.--Oral Statement to the author by Major Charles W. Gibson, of Forrest's cavalry. His riderless and wounded horse made his way back to the Union lines, and the body of the hero was recovered during the heat of battle, and was sent in charge of his personal staff back to Marietta. The suddenness of this calamity, General Sherman afterward said, would have overwhelmed me with grief, but the living demanded my whole thoughts. Speaking of General McPherson, Sherman said: He was a noble youth, of striking personal appearance [see page 285], of the highest pro
W. H. T. Walker (search for this): chapter 14
ry one, and was much more disastrous in the loss of men to the Confederates than to the Patriots. The total loss of the Nationals was 3,722, of whom about 1,000 were well prisoners. General Logan computed the Confederate dead, alone, at 3,240. He delivered to Hood, under a flag of truce, 800 dead bodies and reported that 2,200, by actual count, were found on the field. Sherman estimated Hood's entire loss on the 22d of July, at full 8,000 men. Among the Confederate killed was General W. H. T. Walker, of Georgia. On the day after the battle July 23, 1864. just recorded, General Garrard returned from Covington Signal tree. where he had sufficiently injured the Augusta railway to make it useless to the Confederates. Garrard destroyed the railway bridges over the Ulcofauhatchee and Yellow rivers, burned a train of cars and 2,000 bales of Confederate cotton, the depots of stores at Covington and Conyer's Station, and captured 200 men and some good horses. His loss was onl
Dodgers (search for this): chapter 14
ius, moved from Decatur on the direct road to Atlanta. Logan's corps formed the center, Dodge's the right, and Blair's the left. On the previous night, the latter, after a severe struggle, had driven the Confederates from a hill that overlooked the heart of the city, and McPherson now made preparations for planting heavy batteries upon it, to be supported by Dodge's corps, which was ordered from the right to the left, to make that point a strong general left flank. While, at near noon, Dodgers troops were making their way along an obscure road in the rear of Logan, Sherman, who was at Howard's house, with General Schofield, some distance off, heard the sound of battle on the left and rear of McPherson's troops, first as a mere sputter of musketry, then as volleys, and then as the thunder of artillery. McPherson had left Sherman only a little while before, for that part of his line, and the latter, who quickly comprehended the situation, felt sure that the commander of the Army o
Darius N. Couch (search for this): chapter 14
road. Schofield moved cautiously, because he was nearest Atlanta, and reached the road at Rough and Ready Station, ten miles from that city. Thomas struck it at Couch's, and Howard, crossing the Flint River half a mile from Jonesboroa, approached it at that point. He encountered strong and entirely unexpected opposition, while ed in Jonesboroa. Hardee's entire loss was estimated at twenty-five hundred men. Howard's was about five hundred. At the time of this encounter, Sherman was at Couch's, where Thomas was destroying the railway. The noise of battle, in the voices of great guns, caused the chief to order both Thomas and Schofield to the assistance of Howard. At the same time Kilpatrick was sent down the west bank of the Flint to strike the railway below Jonesboroa, and Garrard was left at Couch's to scout the country in the direction of Atlanta. Davis's corps, of Thomas's army, very soon touched the left of Howard's forces, and relieved Blair's (Fifteenth) corps, which w
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