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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 16: (search)
cross-roads the 2d, and daily afterward at various points more or less severely through the entire month, gaining ground only to the south of the Etowah. Johnston was in a rough and partially mountainous country, which, while partly available for defense, also aided his antagonist in movements to the flank. The mountainous region in which the campaign began did not furnish formidable ranges lying across the avenues of attack, with flanks remote from convenient approach. It was true that Dalton and the Confederate line lay back of Rocky Face, an inaccessible ridge, but an inconsiderable detour would bring the enemy into the north end of the valley, and as the ridge lay parallel to the railroad essential to the safety of Johnston's army, a flank attack at the south would at once compel his retreat. At the beginning of the campaign, two Federals to one Confederate was approximately the relative strength of the opposing forces. After Polk united with Johnston, the difference was not