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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) 1,012 8 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 105 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 89 5 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 48 4 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 43 7 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 42 2 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 30 2 Browse Search
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2 12 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 7 1 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 4: The Cavalry (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 5 1 Browse Search
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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)
en. George H. Thomas. Escort, I, 1st Ohio Cav., Lieut. Henry C. Reppert. Artillery: See batteries attached to divisions and corps. Brig.-Gen. John M. Brannan (chief-of-artillery). Fourth Army Corps, Maj.-Gen. Oliver O. Howard, Maj.-Gen. David S. Stanley. first division, Maj.-Gen. David S. Stanley, Brig.-Gen. William Grose, Brig.-Gen. Nathan Kimball. First Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Charles Cruft, Col. Isaac M. Kirby: 21st Ill., Non-veterans attached to 101st Ohio till June 4th and 9th, Maj.-Gen. David S. Stanley, Brig.-Gen. William Grose, Brig.-Gen. Nathan Kimball. First Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Charles Cruft, Col. Isaac M. Kirby: 21st Ill., Non-veterans attached to 101st Ohio till June 4th and 9th, respectively. when regiments rejoined from veteran furlough. Maj. James E. Calloway, Capt. William H. Jamison; 38th Ill., Non-veterans attached to 101st Ohio till June 4th and 9th, respectively. when regiments rejoined from veteran furlough. Lieut.-Col. William T. Chapman; 31st Ind., Col. John T. Smith; 81st Ind., Lieut.-Col. William C. Wheeler; 1st Ky., Ordered home for muster-out May 29th and June 3d, respectively. Col. David A. Enyart; 2d Ky., Ordered home for mnuster-out May 29th
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The struggle for Atlanta. (search)
the 3d of May, 1864, my division commanders, Stanley, Newton, and Wood, reported everything ready.house in sight of Tunnel Hill. Two divisions, Stanley's and Newton's, abreast in long, wavy lines, cavalry galloping away. The ball is opened, Stanley called out, as I took my place by his side to the bright signal flags up there in motion. Stanley and Wood Major-General John M. Palmer. Froablaze. At this time I had a narrow escape. Stanley, Captain G. C. Kniffin of his staff, several ong line, with skirmishers well out, and then Stanley's carried us to the railway. Stanley's chief with the Fourth and the Fourteenth corps. Stanley had some sharp fighting with Stewart's Confed Publishers. replied, let us see. I called Stanley, whose division held the front. General, douCreek my corps was divided. I was sent, with Stanley and Wood, to connect with Schofield, causing . Hazen passed from a brigade in the Fourth (Stanley's) to M. L. Smith's division of Logan's corps[5 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Cavalry operations in the West under Rosecrans and Sherman. (search)
of course no commander of cavalry to direct the movements of the entire body of these troops, but the commander of a cavalry brigade was the ranking colonel present who received orders from the army commander direct, or through subordinate commanders of the infantry. With Rosecrans came an effort toward a better organization. Rosecrans divided his army into three grand divisions known as The center, The right wing, and The left wing. The cavalry was all placed under one commander, General D. S. Stanley, who at once proceeded to get the cavalry in condition for efficient service. He formed it in three brigades. The First was under Colonel R. H. G. Minty, of the 4th Michigan Cavalry; the Second under Colonel Lewis Zahm, of the 3d Ohio Cavalry; the Third he kept under his personal charge, while Colonel John Kennett was made commander of the cavalry division. Such was the organization when Rosecrans began the campaign which resulted in the Battle of Stone's River, December 31st, 186
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 9.64 (search)
rage with intense fury; our troops succeeded in breaking the main line at one or more points, capturing and turning some of the guns on their opponents. Just at this critical moment of the battle, a brigade of the enemy, reported to have been Stanley's, Opdycke's brigade of Stanley's Fourth Corps, and the second line of Reilly's brigade of Cox's Twenty-third Corps.--editors. gallantly charged, and restored the Federal line, capturing at the same time about one thousand of our troops withiStanley's Fourth Corps, and the second line of Reilly's brigade of Cox's Twenty-third Corps.--editors. gallantly charged, and restored the Federal line, capturing at the same time about one thousand of our troops within the intrenchments. Still From the bivouac for August, 1885. Overton's House, Hood's head)quarters at Nashville. From a photograph taken in 1884. the ground was obstinately contested, and at several points upon the immediate sides of the breastworks the combatants endeavored to use the musket upon one another, by inverting and raising it perpendicularly, in order to fire; neither antagonist, at this juncture, was able to retreat without almost a certainty of death. It was reported t
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Repelling Hood's invasion of Tennessee. (search)
west of Gadsden. This move was a complete surprise, and evidently meant business. The Fourth Corps, numbering about twelve thousand men, commanded by Major-General D. S. Stanley, was at once ordered from Gaylesville, to report to General Thomas. On the 1st of November its leading division reached Pulaski, Tennessee, a small towt least two corps of Hood's army were in line of battle facing the turnpike, and not half a mile away. The long line of Confederate camp-fires burned Major-General D. S. Stanley. From a photograph. bright, and the men could be seen standing around them or sauntering about in groups. Now and then a few would come almost to theitaker and Colonel Isaac M. Kirby. All the troops in the works were ordered to report to General Cox, to whom was assigned the command of the defenses. General D. S. Stanley, who commanded the Fourth Corps, takes exception to this statement. Some of his troops as they arrived were assigned to positions by General Cox. General
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces at Nashville, Dec. 15-16, 1864. (search)
d 1104 captured or missing == 2326. General Thomas reported that the losses of his army in the entire campaign did not exceed 10,000 in killed, wounded, and missing. According to official returns the effective force of Thomas's whole command was as follows: October 31st, 53,415; November 20th, 59,534; November 30th, 71,452; December 10th, 70,272. In his official report, General Thomas says that his effective force early in November consisted of the Fourth Corps, about 12,000, under General D. S. Stanley; the Twenty-third Corps, about 10,000, under General J. M. Schofield; Hatch's division of cavalry, about 4000; Croxton's brigade, 2500, and Capron's brigade of about 1200 [total, 29,700]. The balance of my force was distributed along the railroad, and posted at Murfreesboro‘, Stevenson, Bridgeport, Huntsville, Decatur, and Chattanooga, to keep open our communications and hold the posts above named, if attacked, until they could be reeinforced, as up to this time it was impossible to
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Sherman's advance from Atlanta. (search)
Sherman's advance from Atlanta. by Oliver O. Howard, Major-General, U. S. A. When Sherman decided to march south from Atlanta, he ordered to Thomas a, Nashville Schofield with the Twenty-third Corps, Stanley with the Fourth Corps, all the cavalry, except Kilpatrick's division, all the detachments drawn back from the railway line, and such other troops, including A. J. Smith's, as Sherman's military division could furnish. Sherman reserved for his right wing my two corps, the Fifteenth and Seventeenth; and for his left wing the Fourteenth and Twentieth under Slocum. Mine, the Army of the Tennessee, numbered 33,000; Slocum's, the Army of Georgia, 30,000; Kilpatrick's division of cavalry, 5000; so that the aggregate of all arms was 68,000 men. All surplus stores and trains were sent back to Tennessee. The railway south of the Etowah was next completely demolished. Un er the efficient management of Colonel O. M. Poe, Sherman's chief engineer, all that was of a public nature in At