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The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley), chapter 71 (search)
No. 67.
reports of Lieut. Col. Daniel Bowman, Ninety-third Ohio Infantry.
Hdqrs. Ninety-Third Regt. Ohio Vol. Infty., Before Atlanta, Ga., August 17, 1864.
Sir: I have the honor of submitting to you the following report of the operations of the Ninety-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry in this campaign:
Left encampment at McDonald's Station, Tenn., May 3, 1864; regiment detailed as train guard, rejoining the brigade at Catoosa Springs on the night of the 4th.
At Tunnel Hill, on the 8th, two companies had a slight skirmish with the enemy, but suffered no loss.
On the 9th, in line of battle at foot of Rocky Face Ridge, 4 enlisted men were wounded.
On the 14th and 16th was engaged in battle near Resaca, Ga., suffering a loss of 4 enlisted men killed and 16 wounded. Also engaged May 27, near Dallas, Ga., with a loss of 11 enlisted men killed, 32 wounded, and 6 missing. June 1, while on picket near Dallas, Ga., lost 1 enlisted man killed and 1 wounded. June 17, our loss was 1
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley), chapter 156 (search)
No. 149.
reports of Cot. Morton C. Hunter, Eighty-second Indiana Infantry.
Hdqrs. Eighty-Second Regt. Indiana Vol. Infty., August 17, 1864.
Captain: In pursuance to orders, I herewith transmit to you a general statement of the part taken by my regiment, Eighty-second Indiana, being one of the regiments in said brigade, in the campaign from Ringgold, Ga., to our present position before Atlanta.
On the 7th day of May last we started out with the grand army of the Division of the Mississippi, composed of three departments, to wit, the Department of the Cumberland, the Department of the Tennessee, and the Department of the Ohio, to attack the rebel army under command of General Joseph E. Johnston, then occupying the town of Dalton, Ga., strongly intrenched.
After some circuitous marches and slight skirmishing with the enemy, on the evening of the 9th of May we arrived in front of Buzzard Roost Gap, some six miles distant from Dalton, which was so strongly fortified that i
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley), chapter 159 (search)
No. 152.
reports of Col. Durbin Ward, Seventeenth Ohio Infantry.
Hdqrs. Seventeenth Regt. Ohio Vet. Vol. Infty., Atlanta, Ga., August 17, 1864.
Sir: In obedience to your verbal order to me of the 15th instant, I have the honor to report the military operations of my command since it left Ringgold, Ga., up to the 6th instant.
On the 7th day of May last I was ordered to move, and did move, from camp into the active campaign, in which we are still engaged, leaving behind me, under orders, most of the regimental baggage.
On that day we reached the neighborhood of Tunnel Town, and on the next moved in front of Buzzard Roost, where it was found the enemy was strongly posted.
Skirmishing continued all day actively and for several days afterward.
On the 12th we moved off to the right, passing through Snake Gap and gaining the rear of Dalton.
Orn the 13th we groped slowly and cautiously, mostly through dense woods, the skirmishing still continuing all day and most of the nig
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley), chapter 160 (search)
No. 153.
reports of Lieut. Col. Frederick W. Lister, Thirty-first Ohio Infantry.
Hdqrs. Thirty-First Ohio Vet. Vol. Infantry, Near Atlanta, Ga., August 17, 1864.
Captain: In compliance with orders from the colonel commanding the brigade, the subjoined report of the part taken by the Thirtyfirst Ohio Veteran Volunteers during the campaign commencing May 7 up to the 5th instant is respectfully submitted.
As the regiment was commanded by Col. M. B. Walker for the greater part of the time for which the report is required, I am unable to furnish more than a mere outline of operations.
The regiment marched from Ringgold on the 7th of May and was ordered on picket in the vicinity of Tunnel Hill.
On the 8th arrived in front of Buzzard Roost Gap and remained in position until the 12th, when it marched to Snake Creek Gap, some miles east of its former position.
On the 14th the regiment was deployed on the right of the front line of the brigade, and, being ordered to send out
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley), chapter 165 (search)
No. 158.
reports of Maj. Cyrus J. McCole, Seventy-fifth Indiana Infantry.
Hdqrs. Seventy-Fifth regiment Indiana Vols., Near Atlanta, Ga., August 17, 1864.
I have the honor to make the following report of this regiment and its doings during the time mentioned in circular :
As this regiment has been engaged in no special or detached service, and has at all times acted under the immediate observation of the brigade commander, and only in concert with the brigade, I deem it unnecessary here to mention such facts as must be equally within your knowledge, and are not relative to this regiment alone.
The casualties in this regiment during the time are-Lieut. Col. William O'Brien, severely wounded in hand; enlisted men killed, 6; enlisted men wounded, 19.
Very respectfully, &c.,
C. J. McCOLE, Major, Commanding Regiment. Capt. S. Fortner, A. A. A. G., 2d Brig., 3d Div., 14th Army Corps.
Hdqrs. Seventy-Fifth regiment Indiana Vols., Near Atlanta, Ga., September 9, 1864.
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley), chapter 182 (search)