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The Daily Dispatch: January 23, 1865., [Electronic resource] 11 1 Browse Search
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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter VII (search)
little army which I had the honor to command. I shall speak mainly of the acts of others, especially the noble dead. I must preface my remarks by observing that the organization of Sherman's army during the Atlanta campaign was extremely faulty, in that the three grand divisions were very unequal in strength, the Army of the Cumberland having nearly five times the infantry strength of the Army of the Ohio, and more than twice that of the Army of the Tennessee, even after the junction of Blair's corps. The cavalry, of which two divisions belonged to the Army of the Ohio, always acted either under the direct orders of General Sherman or of the nearest army commander, according to the flank on which it was operating. This inequality resulted from the fact that Sherman's army was composed of three separate armies, or such portions of them as could be spared from their several departments, united for that campaign. General Thomas was, naturally enough, disinclined to part with any
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter VIII (search)
Chapter VIII Sherman's displeasure with Hooker Growing out of the affair at Kolb's Farm Hooker's despatch evidently Misinterpreted a conversation with James B. McPherson over the question of relative rank encouraging John B. Hood to become a soldier visit to the Camp of Frank P. Blair, Jr. anecdote of Sherman and Hooker under fire the assault on Kenesaw tendency of veteran troops the death of McPherson before Atlanta Sherman's error in a question of relative rank. in the affair at Kolb's Farm, on June 22, Hascall's division of the Twenty-third Corps was abreast of and connecting with Hooker's right, while his advance-guard was many yards in advance of the line, when the enemy's attack at the Kolb House began. The first attack fell upon this advance-guard, the 14th Kentucky Volunteers, which gallantly held its ground until twice ordered to retire and join the main line. In the meantime Hascall's line had been formed in prolongation of Hooker's and covered with