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Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans)	75	1	Browse	Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3.	62	4	Browse	Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore)	36	0	Browse	Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.)	19	1	Browse	Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1.	4	0	Browse	Search
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Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5: (search)

eth, Forty-second, Fifty-second and Fifty-seventh Georgia regiments, the Third and Ninth Georgia battalions, and the Cherokee artillery. In McCown's division was the Forty-third Georgia. The foregoing troops were all in Gen. Kirby Smith's army. In Polk's wing of Bragg's army in Kentucky there were other Georgia commands. In Withers' division the Fifth Georgia shared in what was to the infantry the bloodless victory at Munfordville, Ky.; while at Perryville the Forty-first Georgia was in Cheatham's division in the thickest of the fight, its gallant colonel, Charles A. Mc-Daniel, being mortally wounded, and Maj. John Knight leading it through the rest of the battle. The regiment lost in this engagement 6 color-bearers, 2 killed and 4 wounded. General Maney, commanding the brigade of four Tennessee regiments and the Forty-first Georgia, said in his report: The Southern army lost neither a truer soldier nor more amiable and admirable a gentleman on that field (Perryville) than Col. Ch

sions of Polk's corps were commanded by Maj.-Gens. Benjamin F. Cheatham and Thomas C. Hindman; the divisions ofohn K. Jackson, of Georgia, commanded a brigade of Cheatham's division, including besides two Mississippi regi Thomas M. Merritt, had the post of escort for General Cheatham. Scogin's Georgia battery was attached to Mions, and Walker on the extreme north. To reserve Cheatham's division of Polk's corps was formed as it crosse and parting with his freshly captured guns. Then Cheatham came into the fight with his division, and was adv, including the commands of D. H. Hill, Walker and Cheatham. Hill, who had been but slightly engaged on the 1ieces of artillery. Supported by the remainder of Cheatham's division and the artillery, including Scogin's Gwas killed. On Sunday his was the only brigade of Cheatham's in action before evening, being ordered to a posand, Company G of the Second Georgia cavalry, were Cheatham's escort, and were complimented by that officer fo

rs and laborers for engineer service, which would relieve 10,000 or 12,000 men for active duty. The army of Tennessee spent the winter in the positions taken when the Federal pursuit stopped, Johnston fearing to remove to a better strategic line in the rear lest he might create an injurious impression. Cleburne held Tunnel Hill; Stewart, Mill Creek gap; Breckinridge lay between the gap and Dalton; Hindman was mainly southwest of Dalton; Stevenson near Hindman; Walker east of Dalton, and Cheatham south of Walker. Grant's army, 80,000 strong, occupied Chattanooga, Bridgeport and Stevenson. During 1863 two regiments of Georgia State troops were organized with E. M. Galt as colonel of the First, and R. L. Storey of the Second. These were on duty at Charleston and Savannah, and late in the year on the State railroad, guarding bridges. Several more regi. ments had been completed for the Confederate service: The Sixtieth, Col. William H. Stiles; Sixty-first, Col. John H. Lamar; Si

erman's Meridian expedition, the divisions of Cheatham, Cleburne and Walker, under General Hardee, wps was as follows: Hardee's corps: Major-General Cheatham's division, composed of the brigades od north across Crow valley, his left touching Cheatham's right on the mountain. Hindman extended Stain on the southwest, then Bate, Cleburne and Cheatham in order. This was an admirable position, witransfer Hood to the Confederate left, beyond Cheatham, on the Powder Spring road. During these movadliest place to the enemy was the salient on Cheatham's line, held by a portion of Maney's brigade.e succeeded in forcing back the enemy's left, Cheatham was to take up the movement from his right, ation from the Atlanta side. The assault by Cheatham's corps from the direction of Atlanta fell inon the left, or north, of Hindman's division (Cheatham's corps), which included Manigault's brigade. remained in the presence of the enemy, while Cheatham captured five guns and five or six stand of c[12 more...]

and 26th the President visited the army and was enthusiastically received by the troops. During this visit Lieutenant-General Hardee was supplanted by Major-General Cheatham, and on October 5th was given command of the department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, which had been under the charge of Maj.-Gen. Samuel Jones giments—of Stevenson's division; and Stovall's brigade—the Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-second, Forty-third and Fifty-second regiments—of Clayton's division. In Cheatham's corps were Gist's brigade—the Forty-sixth, Sixty-fifth, Eighth battalion, Second sharpshooters, and two South Carolina regiments—of Brown's division; and J. A., Sixty-sixth, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth, and First sharpshooters. Corput's and the Stephens batteries were in the artillery. The Georgians of Cheatham's corps were full participants in the terrific fighting at Franklin, Tenn., November 30th. Brown's division gained the ditch and part of the Federal works, a

re to Chattanooga, where he had charge of the communications from Atlanta to Tullahoma. Jackson's brigade, composed of the Fifth and Forty-fourth Georgia, and the Fifth and Eighth Mississippi regiments, fought with distinction at Chickamauga in Cheatham's division. The Fifth Georgia lost sixty-one per cent in that battle, the second heaviest loss of all the regiments engaged. He commanded his brigade in the battle of Missionary Ridge, and his, with General Moore's brigade, was the first to chwith part of his command, Walthall's brigade having been detached to another part of the line. General Walker reported that when ordered forward Sunday morning, Gist's division moved with Govan, of Liddell's division, on right, Breckinridge and Cheatham in the rear and on General Gist's left. He continued: I owe it to myself and to the gallant command under me to state that when I reported to General [D. H.] Hill, had he permitted me to fight my Reserve corps according to my own judgment, and

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