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Decatur, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
nd Gadsden. I leave near Jacksonville all surplus baggage, artillery, and wagons, and move prepared for battle. If I move to the Tennessee, my trains will meet me at Gadsden. Please have the Memphis and Charleston Railroad repaired at once to Decatur, if possible. J. B. Hood, General. This last precautionary measure I deemed advisable, as I sought to forestall every possible contingency. If our arms met with only partial success in battle — that is, if Sherman was not routed, but mereling. Thus far I have confined my efforts to thwart this plan, and have reduced baggage so that I can pick up and start in any direction; but I regard the pursuit of Hood as useless. Still, if he attempts to invade Middle Tennessee, I will hold Decatur, and be prepared to move in that direction; but, unless I let go Atlanta, my force will not be equal to his. W. T. Sherman, Major General. Before my attention was arrested by the above dispatches, I had written those lines which record my s
Cave Spring, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
h, the Army reached Dallas; our right rested at New Hope Church, where intelligence was received that the enemy was advancing from Lost Mountain. From Dallas we marched to Coosaville, ten miles southwest of Rome, via Van Wert, Cedartown, and Cave Spring. At the latter place Major General Wheeler, with a portion of his command, joined me from Tennessee. We arrived at Coosaville on the 10th, and the day previous, when near Van Wert, I sent the following dispatch to General Bragg: [no.miles southwest of Rome, from which he will threaten Kingston, Bridgeport, Decatur, Alabama. * * * * On the 10th of October, Brigadier General Jackson, commanding the cavalry, was instructed by Colonel Mason, as follows: [no 438.] Cave Spring, October 10th, 8 a. m. General Hood desires me to inform you that the pontoon at Quinn's Ferry, on the Coosa river, will be taken up this evening, and you must put on a line of couriers to that place to connect with a line to the other side
Rome, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
with impunity. I believed and still believe, if you had started south while Hood was in the neighborhood of you, he would have been forced to go after you. Now that he is far away, he might look upon the chase as useless, and he will go on in one direction while you are pushing in another. If you can see a chance of destroying Hood's Army, attend to that first, and make your other move secondary. General Sherman replied, as follows: Sherman's Memoirs, vol. II, page 165. Rome, Georgia, November 2d, 1864. Lieutenant General U. S. Grant, City Point, Virginia. Your dispatch is received. If I could hope to overhaul Hood, I would turn against him with my whole force; then he would retreat to the southwest, drawing me as a decoy away from Georgia, which is his chief object. If he ventures north of the Tennessee river, I may venture in that direction, and endeavor to get below him on his line of retreat; but thus far he has not gone above the Tennessee river. General Th
Payne Gap (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
could reach Nashville. I intended then to march upon that city where I would supply the Army and reinforce it, if possible, by accessions from Tennessee. I was imbued with the belief that I could accomplish this feat, afterward march northeast, pass the Cumberland river at some crossing where the gunboats, if too formidable at other points, were unable to interfere; then move into Kentucky, and take position with our left at or near Richmond, and our right extending toward Hazelgreen, with Pound and Stoney Gaps, in the Cumberland Mountains, at our rear. In this position I could threaten Cincinnati, and recruit the Army from Kentucky and Tennessee; the former State was reported, at this juncture, to be more aroused and embittered against the Federals than at any period of the war. While Sherman was debating between the alternative of following our Army or marching through Georgia, I hoped, by rapid movements, to achieve these results. If Sherman cut loose and moved south — as I
Dalton, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
ow our Army to winter again in the vicinity of Dalton. In anticipation of this probable event, I re river, marched in the direction of Resaca and Dalton, and bivouacked that night fourteen miles above, we marched rapidly to Resaca, and thence to Dalton, via Sugar Valley Post Office. Lieutenant Gened. On the 13th, I demanded the surrender of Dalton, which, in the first instance, was refused, buhat night near Villanon. Whilst in front of Dalton, quite a spirited affair occurred at Mill Creeour miles of the Cleveland Railroad, capturing Dalton and all intermediate garrisons, with their stody of Sherman's Army seem to be moving towards Dalton. J. B. Hood, General. From Villanon, the her or not my impressions after the capture of Dalton were correct, and I could rely upon the troopsn in the fighting condition in which it was at Dalton, or at Franklin, I feel confident of our abiliorces); and when, in addition to the troops at Dalton, Polk's Army, Longstreet's Ccrps, and ten thou[1 more...]
Augusta (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
jor General M. L. Smith, chief engineer, was instructed to not only fortify Macon, but likewise Augusta and Columbus; the chief commissary was directed to remove the depot of supplies to the West Poi a part of the important machinery at Macon to the east of the Oconee river, and do the same at Augusta to the east side of the Savannah river? If done, it will be important to make the transfer so ain. This will, I think, force Sherman to move on us or to move south. Should he move towards Augusta, all available troops should be sent there with an able officer of high rank to command. Couldh. I received at this juncture a copy of the following order from President Davis: Augusta, Georgia, October 2d, 1864. General G. T. Beauregard, Augusta, Georgia. General:--I desire that,Augusta, Georgia. General:--I desire that, with as little delay as practicable, you will assume command of the military departments now commanded respectively by General Hood, and Lieutenant General Taylor. You will establish the headquar
Cincinnati (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
rce it, if possible, by accessions from Tennessee. I was imbued with the belief that I could accomplish this feat, afterward march northeast, pass the Cumberland river at some crossing where the gunboats, if too formidable at other points, were unable to interfere; then move into Kentucky, and take position with our left at or near Richmond, and our right extending toward Hazelgreen, with Pound and Stoney Gaps, in the Cumberland Mountains, at our rear. In this position I could threaten Cincinnati, and recruit the Army from Kentucky and Tennessee; the former State was reported, at this juncture, to be more aroused and embittered against the Federals than at any period of the war. While Sherman was debating between the alternative of following our Army or marching through Georgia, I hoped, by rapid movements, to achieve these results. If Sherman cut loose and moved south — as I then believed he would do after I left his front without previously worsting him in battle--I would occu
Opelika (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
sued instructions to commence the movement across the Chattahoochee at Pumpkin Town and Phillips's Ferry, and, on the following morning, I directed that our supplies from Newnan cross the river at Moore's Ferry. At noon, I rode over the pontoon bridge in advance of the infantry, and established my headquarters that night at Pray's Church, along with General Jackson, commanding the cavalry; and on the next day I received the subjoined communication from the President: [Private.] Opelika, Alabama, September 28th, 1864. General John B. Hood, Headquarters Army of Tennessee. General :--I have anxiously reflected upon the subject of our closing conversation and the proposition confidentially mentioned. It seems to me best that I should confer with General Beauregard, and, if quite acceptable to him, place him in command of the department embracing your Army and that of General R. Taylor, so as to secure the fullest co-operation of the troops, without relieving either of you of
Cumberland River (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
n by the Federal gunboats; to cross the Tennessee at or near Guntersville, and again destroy Sherman's communications, at Stevenson and Bridgeport; to move upon Thomas and Schofield, and attempt to rout and capture their Army before it could reach Nashville. I intended then to march upon that city where I would supply the Army and reinforce it, if possible, by accessions from Tennessee. I was imbued with the belief that I could accomplish this feat, afterward march northeast, pass the Cumberland river at some crossing where the gunboats, if too formidable at other points, were unable to interfere; then move into Kentucky, and take position with our left at or near Richmond, and our right extending toward Hazelgreen, with Pound and Stoney Gaps, in the Cumberland Mountains, at our rear. In this position I could threaten Cincinnati, and recruit the Army from Kentucky and Tennessee; the former State was reported, at this juncture, to be more aroused and embittered against the Federals
Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
ffectives, irrespective of troops at other points in Tennessee and Kentucky. Had he chosen the second plan, he would soon have moved with astimate, since forces could have been withdrawn from Tennessee and Kentucky, where no necessity for troops would have existed during these opeing into Tennessee with a hope to establish our line eventually in Kentucky, and determined to make the campaign which followed, unless withhermidable at other points, were unable to interfere; then move into Kentucky, and take position with our left at or near Richmond, and our righis position I could threaten Cincinnati, and recruit the Army from Kentucky and Tennessee; the former State was reported, at this juncture, tod, after a long detour by water and land, repair to the defence of Kentucky and Ohio or march direct to the support of Grant. If he returned my forces, or followed me directly from Georgia into Tennessee and Kentucky, I hoped then to be in condition to offer battle; and, if blessed
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