Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Newnan” in page 76 of The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report.:
...e off to defend himself against an accumulating force of the enemy.
He could hear nothing of General Stoneman, and finding his progress east too strongly opposed he moved south and west and reached Newnan , on the West Point road, where he encountered an infantry force coming from Mississippi to Atlanta, which had been stopped by the
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