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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 39: General Hood's northward march; Sherman in pursuit; battle of Allatoona (search)
awn there were no signs of the Confederate army in our neighborhood, except those of vacant camps. We proceeded as rapidly as we could as far as the town of Gaylesville, Ala. There we halted October 21st. Hood's whole army had by this time passed on. His own headquarters were then at Gadsden. The only skirmish in consequence of t of the Twenty-fourth South Carolina. From that time on the Confederates were moving rapidly away from us. From the 21st to the 28th of October we remained at Gaylesville or in that vicinity, while Sherman was communicating with his commanders at Chattanooga and Nashville, and with his commander in chief at Washington concerning t and day. When he grew weaker he had himself drawn at the head of his command in an ambulance, and at last he caused his men to carry him along on an army stretcher, resolute to the end. He died, October 29th, in a house near our road, carried thither by his men, while his command was en route between Gaylesville and Rome, Ga.
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 40: return to Atlanta; the March to the sea; Battle of Griswoldville, ga. (search)
Chapter 40: return to Atlanta; the March to the sea; Battle of Griswoldville, ga. The Army of the Tennessee changed its camp from Gaylesville, Ala., to Cave Spring and Cedartown, Ga., making short marches. Every hostile soldier was so far away that our occupation of the country was peaceful. The inhabitants soon became acquainted with us, and our camps afforded good centers for trade. On account of insufficiency of time to graze we lost many of the poorer mules and some artillery hor north of the Etowah, when the forage wagons became empty and grass neither abundant nor nutritious. The weaker mules were detached and sent away in herds to Chattanooga. The best being retained were held in service. During our rqst at Gaylesville, Ala., pursuant to new directions from General Sherman, a redistribution of artillery was made, leaving but one battery to a division; then, by judicious exchanges, the good horses were attached to the retained batteries, and the remainder were h
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 35: (search)
fall of Atlanta a serious disaster for the Confederates. visit of President Davis to the military lines in Georgia. his speech at Macon. he betrays to the enemy the new military design. Hood's new movement to Tennessee. Sherman follows to Gaylesville. he turns back and determines to traverse the State of Georgia to the sea. his correspondence with Grant. how the enterprise was a plain one. no peril or genius in it. Errors of the Hood Davis strategy. Hood's Tennessee campaign. he loPassing through the gap of Pigeon Mountain, he entered Lafayette on the 15th. From this place he suddenly moved south to Gadsden, Alabama, where he rejoined his trains, to make his fatal march towards Nashville. Sherman waited some time at Gaylesville, until he became fully assured of the direction taken by Hood; and then abruptly prepared to abandon the pursuit, return to Atlanta, and mobilize his army for a march across the broad State of Georgia to the sea. His calculation was a plain an
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 37: (search)
ize the Southside Railroad. defeat of the enemy and frustration of his plans. public attention drawn to Georgia. Sherman's march to the sea. he returns from Gaylesville to Atlanta. the work of destruction commenced at Rome. burning of Atlanta. more than four thousand houses consumed. outline of Sherman's march from Atlanta.ounts of operations in Georgia, Gen. Sherman was meditating a march to the sea-board. Preparations were made to abandon all the posts south of Dalton, and from Gaylesville and Rome orders were issued concerning the new movement. In the latter place commenced the work of destruction: a thousand bales of cotton, two flour mills, twe elements of the hero. Where there is nothing to oppose an army, the mere accomplishment of distances is no great wonder or glory. From the time Sherman left Gaylesville to the day he encountered the lines around Savannah, he never had a thousand men on his front to dispute his advance; he had nothing to threaten his rear beyond
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 17: (search)
Mill Creek gap, about 1,000 prisoners in all. Sherman moved into Snake Creek gap, through which he had passed in the opposite direction five months before, and was delayed there by the Confederate rear guard. At Ship's gap, Col. Ellison Capers, with his South Carolina regiment, held back the Federal advance until part of his force was captured. Thus Hood managed to move south from Lafayette down the Chattooga valley before Sherman could intercept him, and the latter followed down to Gaylesville, Ala., where he remained about two weeks from the 19th, watching the Confederate army at Gadsden, and foraging from the rich country into which Hood had led him. On the 17th General Beauregard took command of the new military division of the West, east of the Mississippi, comprising Hood's department of Tennessee and Georgia, and Lieut.-Gen. Richard Taylor's department—Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana. By the last of the month, Hood had moved his army across Alabama to Tuscumbia
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Chapter 28: (search)
Lafayette and cut off their retreat at that place, but by the time his forces were in position, Hood had again escaped and moved in a southwesterly direction, to the neighborhood of Gadsden. He was encumbered with few trains and marched with great celerity; evidently anxious to avoid a battle. It is one of the most difficult feats in war for a pursuing army to overtake its enemy. The stimulus of danger seems always a sharper goad than the hope of victory. Sherman followed as far as Gaylesville, in the rich valley of the Chattooga, and there on the 19th, he determined to pause. The rebels had altogether failed to make him let go his hold of Atlanta, but had demonstrated their ability at all times to endanger the national communications. They had captured, though they could not hold, Big Shanty, Ackworth, Tilton, and Dalton, and destroyed thirty miles of railroad; and although Atlanta was not regained, Hood was actually at this moment threatening the invasion of Tennessee, whil
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Battles of the Western army in which Albama troops were engaged. (search)
ters', Eufaula, Fowler's, Semple's, Kolb's, Robertson's Battrs.; parts of 3d, 8th, 10th, Conf. Cav.; 16th, 19th, 20th, 24th, 25th, 28th, 32d, 33d, 34th, 37th, 38th, 39th, 40th, 42d, 45th, 46th, 50th, 58th Inf. Kingston, Tenn., Nov. 24. Gen. Jos. Wheeler; total loss 50.—Federal, total loss 50. Alabama troops, parts of 1st, 3d, 4th Cav., and 8th Conf. Cav. Chickamauga Sta., Tenn., Nov. 25. Total loss 10.—Federal, total loss 60. Alabama troops, parts of 8th, 10th Conf. Cav. Galesville Rd., Tenn., Nov. 26. Total loss 20.—Federal, total loss 75. Alabama troops, parts of 8th, 10th Conf. Cav. Ringgold, Tenn., Nov. 27. Total loss 65.—Federal, total loss 150 Alabama troops, parts of 8th, 10th, and 3d Conf. Cav. Fort Sanders, Nov. 29. Gen. Longstreet, 3 brigades; loss 80 k, 400 w, 300 m.—Federal, Gen. Burnside, 1,300; loss 20 k, 80 w. Alabama troops, 15th, 31st, 47th, 48th, 59th, 60ch Inf.; Stallworth's Battn.; Kolb's Batty. Cleveland Rd., Tenn., Nov.
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 10: (search)
ttack him in position. Hood continued his march as far north as Dalton, then moved westward to Gadsden and thence to Tuscumbia, Ala., where the army was halted for three weeks. When the Federal army retired from the front of Lovejoy's Station, General Hood's conception of the campaign was embodied in a dispatch to the secretary of war, dated September 6, 1864, Sherman continues his retreat beyond Jonesboro; but in fact, after Hood moved across the Chattahoochee, Sherman pursued him to Gaylesville, Ala., then returned to Atlanta, and on the 15th of November began his march through Georgia to the sea. Stewart's corps captured the garrisons at Big Shanty and Acworth, and General French attacked Allatoona, but when success was near at hand the appearance of heavy reinforcements caused him to withdraw. Cheatham made a demonstration on Dalton with Strahl's brigade, and the garrison, 1,200 strong, surrendered unconditionally; and at the same time General Bate, under orders of Cheatham,
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Chapter 28: (search)
Lafayette and cut off their retreat at that place, but by the time his forces were in position, Hood had again escaped and moved in a southwesterly direction, to the neighborhood of Gadsden. He was encumbered with few trains and marched with great celerity; evidently anxious to avoid a battle. It is one of the most difficult feats in war for a pursuing army to overtake its enemy. The stimulus of danger seems always a sharper goad than the hope of victory. Sherman followed as far as Gaylesville, in the rich valley of the Chattooga, and there on the 19th, he determined to pause. The rebels had altogether failed to make him let go his hold of Atlanta, but had demonstrated their ability at all times to endanger the national communications. They had captured, though they could not hold, Big Shanty, Ackworth, Tilton, and Dalton, and destroyed thirty miles of railroad; and although Atlanta was not regained, Hood was actually at this moment threatening the invasion of Tennessee, whil
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), G (search)
ard, K.: III., 105. 328; IV., 326. Garrard, T. T., X., 207. Garrott, J. W., X., 255. Gartrell, L. J., X., 265. Gary, M. W., X., 285. Gas-generators for balloons, VIII., 374. Gassaway, F. H., IX., 196-199, 201. Gaston, C. A., VIII., 364. Gate City guard, Atlanta, Ga. , IX., 159. Gates, H., V., 33. Gatlin, R. C., X., 279. Gay and Happy, IX., 348. Gay and Happy Still, IX., 186, 349. Gayle, R. H., VII., 135. Gaylesville, Ala., III., 218. Geary, J. W.: II., 256, 258, 300, 302, 318, 320, 346; III., 125; V., 132; X., 4. Gee, Major VII., 92; acquittal of, VII., 180. Gemsbok,, U. S. S., I., 362. General Officers, Roster of Confederate and Union, X., 301; Union army, X., 302-317; Confederate army, X., 318-321. General Orders Nos. 100 and 207, VII., 112. General Beauregard,, C. S. S.: I., 241, 242 seq.; VI., 85, 222. General Bragg,, C. S. S.: I., 238, 246; VI., 83, 224.
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