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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 15 (search)
would make him a hero. I explained to him, that we were getting ready to go for Joe Johnston at Dalton, that I expected to be in the neighborhood of Atlanta about the 4th of July, and wanted the bridMy plan is to move your forces out gradually until they reach the railroad between Cleveland and Dalton. Granger will move up the south side of the Tennessee with a column of twenty thousand men, takward to cross Taylor's Ridge, and strike the railroad which comes from the north by Cleveland to Dalton. Hooker's troops were roughly handled at Ringgold, and the pursuit was checked. Receiving a noent of Howard; where I met General Grant, and learned that the rebels had again retreated toward Dalton. He gave orders to discontinue the pursuit, as he meant to turn his attention to General BurnsiRed Clay, or the Council-Ground, there to destroy a large section of the railroad which connects Dalton and Cleveland. This work was most successfully and fully accomplished that day. The division of
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 17 (search)
campaign about May 1st, by moving Schofield on Dalton from Cleveland, Thomas on the same objective fhnston's rear, at or near Resaca, distant from Dalton only eighteen miles, and in full communicationin the direction of Rome, if the enemy give up Dalton, and fall behind the Oostenaula or Etowah. I l Creek which formed the gorge, flowing toward Dalton, had been dammed up, making a sort of irregulaos. Johnston's army in check should he abandon Dalton. He cannot afford to abandon Dalton, for he had abandoned all his well-prepared defenses at Dalton, and was found inside of Resaca with the bulk Howard's corps had followed Johnston down from Dalton, and was in line; Stoneman's division of cavalin advance to give up such strong positions as Dalton and Resaca, for the purpose of drawing us fartr south, is simply absurd. Had he remained in Dalton another hour, it would have been his total defing an aggregate loss in Johnston's army, from Dalton to New Hope, inclusive, of 8,638, against ours[20 more...]
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 20 (search)
rove of one thousand of our beef-cattle, and was strong enough to appear before Dalton, and demand of its commander, Colonel Raum, the surrender of the place. Generaected together a couple of thousand men, and proceeded in cars to the relief of Dalton, when Wheeler retreated northward toward Cleveland. On the 16th another detach the damage done to our own railroad and telegraph by Wheeler, about Resaca and Dalton, had been repaired, and Wheeler himself was too far away to be of any service tJohnston himself very wisely and properly removed the families all the way from Dalton down, and I see no reason why Atlanta should be excepted. Nor is it necessary Johnston himself very wisely and properly removed the families all the way from Dalton down. It is due to that gallant soldier and gentleman to say that no act of hing Chattanooga, which General Steedman sent at one time to drive Wheeler out of Dalton. I was not bound by the laws of war to give notice of the shelling of Atlant
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 21 (search)
etta and Kenesaw, Allatoona, Etowah Bridge, Kingston, Rome, Resaca, Dalton, Ringgold, and Chattanooga. All the important bridges were likewisnston himself say that General Wheeler had blown up the tunnel near Dalton, and that the Yanks-would have to retreat, because they could get n3th) learned that Hood's whole army had passed up the valley toward Dalton, burning the railroad and doing all the damage possible. On the ly twenty miles, capturing en route the regiment of black troops at Dalton (Johnson's Forty-fourth United States colored). On the 14th, I turnthe War, is full on all these points. After striking our road at Dalton, Hood was compelled to go on to Chattanooga and Bridgeport, or to pak in our railroad at Big Shanty is almost repaired, and that about Dalton should be done in ten days. We find abundance of forage in the counr of fifteen hundred men, the railroad break of fifteen miles about Dalton was repaired so far as to admit of the passage of cars, and I trans
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 22 (search)
erstand the importance of events, it is proper to revert to the situation of affairs in September last. We held Atlanta, a city of little value to us, but so important to the enemy that Mr. Davis, the head of the rebellious faction in the South, visited his army near Palmetto, and commanded it to regain the place and also to ruin and destroy us, by a series of measures which he thought would be effectual. That army, by a rapid march, gained our railroad near Big Shanty, and afterward about Dalton. We pursued it, but it moved so rapidly that we could not overtake it, and General Hood led his army successfully far over toward Mississippi, in hope to decoy us out of Georgia. But we were not thus to be led away by him, and preferred to lead and control events ourselves. Generals Thomas and Schofield, commanding the departments to our rear, returned to their posts and prepared to decoy General Hood into their meshes, while we came on to complete the original journey. We quietly and de
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 25 (search)
of national affairs when, but little more than a year ago, we were gathered about the cliffs of Lookout Mountain, and all the future was wrapped in doubt and uncertainty. Three armies had come together from distant fields, with separate histories, yet bound by one common cause — the union of our country, and the perpetuation of the Government of our inheritance. There is no need to recall to your memories Tunnel Hill, with Rocky-Face Mountain and Buzzard-Roost Gap, and the ugly forts of Dalton behind. We were in earnest, and paused not for danger and difficulty, but dashed through Snake-Creek Gap and fell on Resaca; then on to the Etowah, to Dallas, Kenesaw; and the heats of summer found us on the banks of the Chattahoochee, far from home, and dependent on a single road for supplies. Again we were not to be held back by any obstacle, and crossed over and fought four hard battles for the possession of the citadel of Atlanta. That was the crisis of our history. A doubt still c