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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), Reports etc., of this campaign (search)
22-August 4. No. 34Col. Emerson Opdycke, One hundred and twenty-fifth Ohio Infantry, commanding First Brigade, of operations August 6-September 8. No. 35Lieut. Col. Porter C. Olson, Thirty-sixth Illinois Infantry. No. 36Lieut. Col. John Russell, Forty-fourth Illinois Infantry. No. 37Maj. Thomas W. Motherspaw, Seventy-third Illinois Infantry. No. 38Capt. Thomas J. Bryan, Seventy-fourth Illinois Infantry. No. 39Lieut. Col. George W. Smith, Eighty-eighth Illinois Infantry. No. 40Col. Bernard Laiboldt, Second Missouri Infantry, of operations August 14-15 (Wheeler's raid). No. 41Col. Joseph Conrad, Fifteenth Missouri Infantry. No. 42Maj. Arthur MacArthur, jr., Twenty-fourth Wisconsin Infantry. No. 43Brig. Gen. George D. Wagner, U. S. Army, commanding Second Brigade. No. 44Lieut. Col. Willis Blanch, Fifty-seventh Indiana Infantry. No. 45Maj. Norris T. Peatman, Twenty-sixth Ohio Infantry. No. 46Brig. Gen. Luther P. Bradley, U. S. Army, commanding Third Brigade. No. 47Maj. Fred
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 5 (search)
we remained a day. On the 7th we moved to Rough and Ready, seven miles, and the next day to the camps selected, viz, the Army of the Cumberland grouped around about Atlanta, the Army of the Tennessee about East Point, and that of the Ohio at Decatur, where the men now occupy clean and healthy camps. I have not yet received full or satisfactory accounts of Wheeler's operations to our rear, further than that he broke the road about Calhoun and then made his appearance at Dalton, where Colonel Laiboldt held him in check until General Steedman arrived from Chattanooga and drove him off. He then passed up into East Tennessee and made quite a stay at Athens, but on the first show of pursuit he kept on north across the Little Tennessee, and crossing the Holston near Strawberry Plains, reached the Clinch near Clinton, and passed over toward Sequatchie and McMinnville. Thence he seems to have gone to Murfreesborough and Lebanon, and across to Franklin. He may have committed damage to the
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 44 (search)
No. 40. report of Col. Bernard Laiboldt, Second Missouri Infantry, of operations August 14-15 (Wheeler's raid). headquarters Post of Dalton, Ga., August 18, 1864. Sir: I have the honor to lay before you a report of the engagement the forces under my command had on the 14th and 15th days of this month with the raiders under Major-General Wheeler: About 4 p. m. on Sunday, the 14th, a part of Wheeler's force, at the lowest estimate 5,000 strong, surrounded the town of Dalton, and after some picket-firing the following demand for surrender was sent to me under flag of truce: headquarters cavalry Corps, Army of Tennessee, Around Dalton, August 14, 1864. officer Commanding U. S. Forces, Dalton: To prevent the unnecessary effusion of blood, I have the honor to demand the immediate and unconditional surrender of the forces under your command at this garrison. Respectfully, yours, &c., Jos. Wheeler, Major-General, Commanding. To which I answered: officer Comman
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)
lines held by General Garrard's dismounted cavalry, but which are not occupied now. This leaves our left much more exposed. General Wheeler, with about 5,000 cavalry, now raiding in our rear. Yesterday he demanded the surrender of Dalton. Colonel Laiboldt, the commander of the post, refused. A fight was the result. General Steedman came up with two regiments of infantry to Laiboldt's assistance and drove the enemy off toward Spring Place. 8 p. m., General Garrard has returned. He found sevLaiboldt's assistance and drove the enemy off toward Spring Place. 8 p. m., General Garrard has returned. He found seven regiments of the enemy's cavalry opposite our extreme left intrenched. Did not fight them, but returned and went into camp in the rear of the center of the corps. He does not again occupy the works on our left. Usual picket and artillery firing. Day very hot. August 16.-Nothing new along our lines and in front of them prior to sundown. The usual picket-firing; not so much artillery fring. 8.25 p. m., General Kimball's lookout reports that at 7.15 p. m. the enemy threw fire-balls int