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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces in the Atlanta campaign . May 3d -September 8th , 1864 . (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The Georgia militia about Atlanta . (search)
The Georgia militia about Atlanta. by Gustavus W. Smith, Major-General, C. S. A.
About the time that General Johnston crossed to the south of the Etowah, Governor Joseph E. Brown ordered the militia and the civil officers of the State of Georgia to assemble at Atlanta.
These two classes of State officers were, by act of the Confederate Congress, exempt from conscription.
Governor Brown's order was promptly obeyed, and these officers — about three thousand in number — were organized into e 5th; but were reconciled to this when they found the main Confederate army had preceded them to the Chattahoochee.
In reference to these operations General Johnston says:
Johnston's Narrative, p. 345.
In the evening [July 4th] Major-General Smith reported that the Federal cavalry was pressing on him in such force that he would be compelled to abandon the ground he had been holding, and retire before morning to General Shoup's line of redoubts.
As the position in question covered a
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 15.100 (search)
The Georgia militia during sherman's march to the sea.
a continuation of the article on p. 331. by Gustavus W. Smith, Major-General, C. S. A.
On the 12th of October, 1864, I was ordered to assemble the State forces of Georgia at Lovejoy's Station, to support the small body of Confederate cavalry observing the Federal garri nd let me know quickly what they said about it. The reply came in a few minutes.
Nearly if not quite all of the officers said they were willing to go anywhere General Smith wanted them to go. But nearly all the privates said that, whilst they would like to do what General Smith wanted, they would not go into South Carolina even toGeneral Smith wanted, they would not go into South Carolina even to please him, because the South Carolina militia for months remained on the heights of Hamburg, and refused to cross over to Augusta and relieve the home guards of that place, thereby enabling those guards to go to the front whilst Georgia was being invaded.
On receiving this message I told the representative men to go back and i
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 18.114 (search)