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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 21 (search)
n had reached him (General Johnston) at Marietta! I doubt whether the history of war can furnish more examples of skill and bravery than attended the defense of the railroad from Nashville to Atlanta during the year 1864. In person I reached Allatoona on the 9th of October, still in doubt as to Hood's immediate intentions. Our cavalry could do little against his infantry in the rough and wooded country about Dallas, which masked the enemy's movements; but General Corse, at Rome, with Spencer's First Alabama Cavalry and a mounted regiment of Illinois Infantry, could feel the country south of Rome about Cedartown and Villa Rica; and reported the enemy to be in force at both places. On the 9th I telegraphed to General Thomas, at Nashville, as follows: I came up here to relieve our road. The Twentieth Corps remains at Atlanta. Hood reached the road and broke It up between Big Shanty and Acworth. He attacked Allatoona, but was repulsed. We have plenty of bread and meat, but
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 22 (search)
upports, near Griswold Station. The Fifteenth Corps tore up the railroad-track eastward from Griswold, leaving Charles R. Wood's division behind as a rear-guard--one brigade of which was intrenched across the road, with some of Kilpatrick's cavalry on the flanks. On the 22d of November General G. W. Smith, with a division of troops, came out of Macon, attacked this brigade (Walcutt's) in position, and was handsomely repulsed and driven back into Macon. This brigade was in part armed with Spencer repeating-rifles, and its fire was so rapid that General Smith insists to this day that he encountered a whole division; but he is mistaken; he was beaten by one brigade (Walcutt's), and made no further effort to molest our operations from that direction. General Walcutt was wounded in the leg, and had to ride the rest of the distance to Savannah in a carriage. Therefore, by the 23d, I was in Milledgeville with the left wing, and was in full communication with the right wing at Gordon.
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, Chapter 22: campaign of the Carolinas. February and March, 1866. (search)
l Slocum already in possession with the Fourteenth Corps, and all the rest of the army was near at hand. A day or two before, General Kilpatrick, to our left rear, had divided his force into two parts, occupying roads behind the Twentieth Corps, interposing between our infantry columns and Wade Hampton's cavalry. The latter, doubtless to make junction with General Hardee, in Fayetteville, broke across this line, captured the house in which General Kilpatrick and the brigade-commander, General Spencer, were, and for a time held possession of the camp and artillery of the brigade. However, General Kilpatrick and most of his men escaped into a swamp with their arms, reorganized and returned, catching Hampton's men in turn, scattered and drove them away, recovering most of his camp and artillery; but Hampton got off with Kilpatrick's private horses and a couple hundred prisoners, of which he boasted much in passing through Fayetteville. It was also reported that, in the morning afte
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 25 (search)
140th Indiana Vol. Infan'y Battery D, 1st Ohio Light Artillery. Cavalry Division--Major-General Judson Kilpatrick commanding. First Brigade. Brev. Brig.-Gen. Thos. J. Jordan. 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry. 3d Kentucky Cavalry. 2d Kentucky Cavalry. 8th Indiana Cavalry. 8d Indiana Cavalry. Second Brigade. Brevet Brig.-Gen. S. D. Atkins. 32d Illinois Mounted Infan. 10th Ohio Cavalry. 9th Ohio Cavalry. 1st Ohio Squadron. 9th Michigan Cavalry. Third Brigade. Colonel George E. Spencer. 5th Kentucky Cavalry 5th Ohio Cavalry. 1st Alabama Cavalry. Artillery. Captain Y. V. Beebe. 10th Wisconsin Battery. The railroads to our rear had also been repaired, so that stores were arriving very fast, both from Morehead City and Wilmington. The country was so level that a single locomotive could haul twenty-five and thirty cars to a train, instead of only ten, as was the case in Tennessee and Upper Georgia. By the 5th of April such progress had been made, that
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, Chapter 24: conclusion — military lessons of the War. (search)
as again intrenched, having left a mere shirmish-line to cover the movement, in turn to fall back to the new position. Our war was fought with the muzzle-loading rifle. Toward the close I had one brigade (Walcutt's) armed with breech-loading Spencer's; the cavalry generally had breach-loading carbines, Spencer's and Sharp's, both of which were good arms. The only change that breech-loading arms will probably make in the art and practice of war will be to increase the amount of ammunitioSpencer's and Sharp's, both of which were good arms. The only change that breech-loading arms will probably make in the art and practice of war will be to increase the amount of ammunition to be expended, and necessarily to be carried along; to still further thin out the lines of attack, and to reduce battles to short, quick, decisive conflicts. It does not in the least affect the grand strategy, or the necessity for perfect organization, drill, and discipline. The companies and battalions will be more dispersed, and the men will be less under the immediate eye of their officers, and therefore a higher order of intelligence and courage on the part of the individual soldier wi