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John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies 179 35 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 85 3 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 65 9 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 49 1 Browse Search
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War 47 3 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 46 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 45 1 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 42 0 Browse Search
Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 39 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 39 23 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: May 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], Newspaper accounts from Georgia. (search)
his entire force on, and passed Gen. Johnston's left, making a demonstration on Resaca. At 1 o'clock P. M. Tuesday he made an attack on the place, Gen. Johnston's left resting upon the banks of the Oostenaula, near Resaca. commanded by Gen. Cheatham. After a slight skirmish our men fell back, apparently in confusion, but in order to more effectually draw the enemy after them. The enemy run up their artillery to within about six hundred yards of our guns, when we opened on them with sucJohnston. Our men fought all day Sunday behind the works they had thrown up Friday night and had strengthened the night previous. At four o'clock in the afternoon of Sunday there was a general charges on our part, in which the divisions of Cheatham. Stewart, and Stevenson participated. The enemy came up in line, were scattered by heavy volleys from our entrenchments, and as they fled our men were ordered to charge, and, leaping over the works, they drove the Yankees a quarter of a mile,