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battery, I brought forward to the left of the main road, next to the Rodman guns, and opened fire on the enemy's fortifications.
The Napoleon guns and the twelve-pound howitzers fired in the morning in the rifle-pits of the enemy, and in the afternoon the four twelve-pound Napoleon guns were removed to a position in front of Brigadier-General Lightburn's brigade of the Second division Fifteenth army corps.
The section of twenty-pound Parrott guns were also removed to a position on the right of the First division Fifteenth army corps, and directed their fire at the railroad bridge.
On the sixteenth of May, early in the morning, the sections of howitzers advanced at a trot through Resacca, and unlimbered several times to fire on the retreating rebels.
Loss--One man, Corporal H. White, battery F, Second Missouri artillery, and one man wounded; seven horses killed.
The Fourth Independent Ohio battery fired two hundred and twenty-seven rounds; battery F, Third Missouri artillery, fired five hundred and sixty rounds.
Another account.
in the field near Resacca, May 16, 1864.
At the close of my last letter the grand army was in position, confronting the rebel army, which had been in occupation of Northern Georgia.
The flanking movement had been well and skilfully made, a road secured for supplies and the movement of troops.
Johnston had been compelled to withdraw from Dalton — Sherman had followed with his main army, and was ready to give battle to the rebel army concentrated in his front.
The Federal army was in a novel position.
Its front was North.
The country in which the battle was fought is rolling, and generally densely wooded, with a growth of timber and underwood.
There are occasional openings and good roads; but it was very difficult, at most points along the line of battle, to see anything beyond our immediate vicinity.
The advance commenced early in the morning of the thirteenth.
The troops were mainly on the road through Snake Creek Gap to Resacca, the right resting at its intersection with the Dalton road, six miles from Resacca, the rebel left.
The rebel pickets were well up to our front.
The Third cavalry division, General Kilpatrick, had the advance, and soon drove in the enemy's pickets.
Kilpatrick's command was followed by the Army of the Tennessee, the Fifteenth corps leading.
These troops keeping the main road, the Twentieth corps moved to the left, at its intersection with the Calhoun road, and the remainder of the centre and left, the Fourteenth and Fourth corps, taking the same direction at the intersection with the Dalton road.
Kilpatrick's cavalry had moved forward, driving in the enemy's pickets on the Resacca road, nearly to a cross road about two miles from Resacca, when General Kilpatrick was wounded in the leg and compelled to leave the field, the command devolving upon Colonel Murray, of the Fifth Kentucky cavalry.
When the head of the Fifteenth corps reached the cross road to Calhoun Ferry, it moved to the right and went into position on each side of the Resacca road, the Sixteenth moving down to its right.
By one o'clock the different corps were all in position, the enemy was found, and the picket firing was quite lively.
Resacca is situated on the right bank of the Oostenaula River, a stream running in a south-westerly direction, and not fordable.
The object of the afternoon's work seemed to be to advance the right so that the Sixteenth corps should rest its right on the river, and that the Fifteenth should secure possession of the hills in front of Resacca.
About two o'clock, General Logan rode up up from Sherman's headquarters of this corps — an old tree in the road--“Where is my staff?
Broke up?
There is work.”
Staff officers and orderlies were off with orders, and matters speedily began to assume the serious, lively appearance of preparation for battle.
General Sherman's headquarters were near those of General Logan, on a patch of open timber.
The scene there was characteristic and suggestive.
Sherman was seated on the ground, leaning against a tree, his feet drawn up to him, and a map on his knees, his coat unbuttoned, his hat anti-regulation and sans cord.
Cigar in mouth.
he looked no older, and not much worse than when he saved the first day's field at Shiloh, and footed it above Stubs' Bayou.
Around him stood a large amount of rank-Thomas, Hooker, Palmer, Logan, Elliott, Sickles, Butterfield, and a small host of Major and Brigadier Generals.
They were receiving their final instructions for the afternoon's field.
Logan moved first and drew the first fire.
In front of his second division was an open field, in it were the enemy's skirmishers — across in the woods his line of battle.
At the bugle, the division fell into line of battle, deployed skirmishers, and swept across the field, driving the enemy in splendid style.
General Logan accompanied the line.
At the same time Herron, who had fallen back of the main road to allow Hooker to move to the right, moved on the double-quick to the left of Osterhaus, the two divisions pushing into the thick wood on the left of the Second; Dodge moved his command from the Ferry road down through the forest to fill up the space between the Fifteenth and the Oostenaula, his Fourth division, General Hatch, having the advance.
After crossing the field, General Morgan L. Smith entered the wood, and pushed rapidly for the hills in his front.
As the right of the Fifteenth corps came up on the rising ground beyond the open hill, it was found to be uncovered, Dodge's left not being up. The rebels opened a severe flanking fire, from which Lightburn's brigade suffered 