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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), chapter 91 (search)
t reached and bivouacked, destroying the railroad for several miles. August 29 and 30.-Marched in the direction of Jonesborough. August 31.-The Third Division advanced to the Atlanta and Macon Railroad, supported by the Second Brigade, Second Division, and took position four miles north of Jonesborough and tore up the track. The First and Second Divisions (except the Second Brigade of the latter) were sent to the support of the Army of the Tennessee. Casualties during the month: Fiarried, 10 pieces of his artillery and 1,000 prisoners captured. Total loss of corps, 1,272. The enemy withdrew from Jonesborough during the night. September 2.-In the morning the corps was advanced to Jonesborough, and remained there until theJonesborough, and remained there until the 6th. The campaign was officially announced closed, and orders were given for the army to move to Atlanta. September 8.-The corps reached Atlanta and remained there the rest of the month. Addenda. headquarters Fourteenth Army Corps, I
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), chapter 93 (search)
e that the two corps should move in co-operating distance toward Jonesborough. I immediately put the column in motion in the following order:ed to him, and he ordered me to move forward in the direction of Jonesborough, expressing at the time some apprehensions that General Stanley'Carlin's division, here joined its division. Going into camp at Jonesborough awaiting orders, it remained in reserve during the intervening dents of the troops in the return to that place, it withdrew from Jonesborough and marched to Rough and Ready and went into camp. On the morniForming a junction at this point, the corps moved south upon the Jonesborough road, General Carlin in advance, followed by General Morgan and pon their right. General Morgan's division moved south upon the Jonesborough road, formed his lines to the east of the road and to the east otinued. Zzz Jef. C. Davis, Brevet Major-General, Commanding. headquarters Fourteenth Army Corps, Jonesborough, Ga., September 3, 1864.
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), chapter 95 (search)
ptember 8. Hdqrs. First Division, Fourteenth Army Corps, Jonesborough, Ga., September 5, 1864. Captain: I have the honor to report toloss to us. On the 30th the division marched ten miles toward Jonesborough, Ga., and encamped near Mrs. Evans', on the Fayetteville and Atlan support General Howard, who was then confronting the enemy near Jonesborough, which movement was made without delay. Being informed throughnd take position on his right, which was then on the Atlanta and Jonesborough road, east of Mrs. Evans'. Before going into position there I received orders to proceed about two and a half miles toward Jonesborough, and take a position facing the town. Having marched till within two when I received orders from General Davis to move forward toward Jonesborough till I should find the works of the enemy. Moving through a den brought infantry and artillery on the road still farther toward Jonesborough, and opened so heavy a fire that no farther advance could be mad
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), chapter 96 (search)
trick's cavalry. About an hour after this one division of the Seventeenth Army Corps filed past, and proper dispositions were made of the brigade to protect the cross-roads. September 1.-The brigade, with the Nineteenth Indiana Battery, was ordered to the right to protect the wagon trains. It moved about one mile south of Renfroe's house, where it took position and threw up breast-works. September 2.-Command moved at 2 p. m., in rear of the Fourteenth Army Corps wagon train, to Jonesborough, where it arrived at 8 p. m. and bivouacked for the night in the south part of the town. September 6.-Nothing of importance having occurred up to this date, at 9 o'clock this a. m. the brigade was formed in one line running east and west, with the left resting on the railroad near Smith's house. At 10 o'clock two companies of the Thirty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry were posted about a half mile to the front, on the main road. Soon the rebels appeared in our front and drove in our
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), chapter 97 (search)
f Lieut. Col. Douglas Hapeman, one hundred and fourth Illinois Infantry. headquarters 104TH Illinois Infantry, Jonesborough, Ga., September 5, 1864. Captain: I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of the One hundreoops, tearing up the railroad, returning to camp in the evening. On the 30th of August marched about six miles on the Jonesborough road. On the 31st of August, at daylight, the regiment, withithe brigade, marched out on the Jonesborough road to theJonesborough road to the Renfroe house; remained here all day, and in the evening marched back to where they started from in the morning. On the morning of the 1st of September marched to the Renfroe house, then on the Fayetteville road about a mile, and formed the line atand Fayetteville roads, and threw up works, remaining here until I p. m. on the 2d of September. when they marched to Jonesborough, arriving there at dark. The regiment now has 170 enlisted men carrying muskets, and 13 commissioned officers. I
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), chapter 98 (search)
No. 94. report of Lieut. Col. William T. B. Biicintire, Forty-second Indiana Infantry. Hdqrs. Forty-Second Indiana Volunteers, Jonesborough, Ga., September 5, 1864. I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of my command during the Georgia campaign, beginning May 7 and ending September 2, 1864: The command was engaged in a brisk skirmish with the enemy at Buzzard Roost on the 9th of May while advancing our lines up the side and around the ,point of the .mong their riflepits; lost 1 killed, I severely and 1 mortally wounded. August 8, still skirmishing; 3 men wounded. August 9, 1 man mortally and 1 slightly wounded by sharpshooters. During the period between the latter date and our arrival at Jonesborough, with the exception of one or two light skirmishes with the loss of 3 men wounded, nothing important occurred. It is but justice to say that owing to my absence on account of sickness the regiment was under the command of Captain Masters from
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), chapter 99 (search)
easterly direction toward the Macon railway through some of the finest country we have passed through in Georgia; camped near wagon train some three miles from Jonesborough. August 31, off by daylight, halting at cross-roads near Muscle Shoal Church, guarding cross-roads until evening, when our division was ordered to support of ssee, but found that one of their divisions had been pushed forward for that purpose. September 2, guarding Fourteenth Corps train, when we were ordered to Jonesborough, my command acting as rear guard for our corps. September 4, campeka aeuth of Jonesborough on right of railway, and moved to west of town behind old rebel worJonesborough on right of railway, and moved to west of town behind old rebel works. September 5, ordered to be in readiness to move by daylight, and about 10 o'clock formed line refused on right of brigade about 100 yards off; rebels advanced in our front and we fell slowly back through town to some old rebel works of 1st instant, left of brigade resting on railway. Relieved next morning, September 6, by Th
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), chapter 100 (search)
occupied, and strengthened. Many prisoners were also captured. Our skirmishers remained in this last position, the regiment in its main works, until the night of the 26th August, when we moved with the main body of the army and bivouacked on the Atlanta and Montgomery Railroad on the evening of the 29th. Next day we skirmished with the enemy, while the Second and Third Brigades were destroying that road. From the morning of the 30th until the evening of the 2d of September the regiment accompanied the brigade as guards to the Fourteenth Army Corps train, when we reached Jonesborough, Ga., and heard of the fall of Atlanta. The losses of the regiment from the 7th of May to the 2d of September, 1864, inclusive, are as follows: Killed, officers, 1; men, 5. Wounded, officers, 6; men, 46. Missing, men, 3. Total, 61. I am, captain, your obedient servant, Wm. G. Halpin, Lieut. Col. Fifteenth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. Capt. J.. W. Ford, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
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), chapter 101 (search)
mmand during the campaign of Northern Georgia up to the fall of Atlanta and the occupation of Jonesborough by our forces on the 1st instant: In the first place, it is proper to state that the regipiece of timber. August 31, marched at daylight. On reaching the picket-line on the road to Jonesborough, I received orders to deploy the regiment as skirmishers on either side of the road. I immedcted slight works, and remained quiet until evening. In the evening marched two miles toward Jonesborough, then countermarched and returned to the camp of last night. September 1, marched early ift of the regiment resting on the road, and there constructed works. September 2, marched to Jonesborough and camped. This concluded the participations of this command in the operations of the campaithdraw my regiment, which was done in good order. Bivouacked at night a mile or so north of Jonesborough. The next day withdrew from here early in the morning and marched to Rough and. Ready. Sept
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), chapter 104 (search)
Hdqrs. Second Brig., First Div., 14TH Army Corps, Jonesborough, Ga., September 3, 1864. Captain: I have the honor to sding some four or five miles, we reached a point on the Jonesborough road, about a mile and a half from the town and the rain of a point on the railroad, about two miles north of Jonesborough, and held it until the troops of the Fourth Corps occupng. Hdqrs. Second Brig., First Div., 14TH Army Corps, Jonesborough, Ga., September 2, 1864. Hdqrs. Second Brig., First Div. at Ringgold, Ga., and ended 1st of September, 1864, at Jonesborough, some twenty-two miles south of Atlanta, on the railrour on the 1st of September we moved in the direction of Jonesborough. On this day the memorable engagement of Jonesborough Jonesborough took place. As I have made that engagement the subject of a special report, I would respectfully refer to that report for aat I may not be too voluminous. On the 2d we went into Jonesborough, where we remained till the afternoon of the 4th, when
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