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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 15 (search)
trated upon either army, the other could move to its assistance. When General Burnside reached Kingston and Knoxville, and found no considerable number of the enemy in East Tennessee, he was instructou will assume command of all the forces now moving up the Tennessee, including the garrison at Kingston, and from that force organize what you deem proper to relieve Burnside. The balance send back me a copy of his written instructions, which were full and complete, and that he must push for Kingston, near which we would make a junction. But by the time I reached Athens I had better studied the geography, and sent him orders, which found him at Decatur, that Kingston was out of our way; that he should send his boat to Kingston, but with his command strike across to Philadelphia, and reportKingston, but with his command strike across to Philadelphia, and report to me there. I had but a small force of cavalry, which was, at the time of my receipt of General Grant's orders, scouting over about Benton and Columbus. I left my aide, Major McCoy, at Charleston,
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 17 (search)
ave force enough to push on through Dalton to Kingston, which will checkmate him. My own opinion is railroad at any point below Calhoun and above Kingston. During the 15th, without attempting to asca the railroad runs nearly due south, but at Kingston it makes junction with another railroad from of column was about four miles to the west of Kingston, at a country place called Woodlawn; Schofielxtensive, open ground, about half-way between Kingston and Cassville, and that appearances indicatedsten forward by roads leading to the south of Kingston, so as to leave for Thomas's troops and train rough gravel hills, and about six miles from Kingston found General Thomas, with his troops deployeound near Cassville, and MicPherson that near Kingston. The officer intrusted with the repair of th it, but to turn the position, by moving from Kingston to Marietta via Dallas; accordingly I made ornce given to repair the railroad forward from Kingston to Allatoona, embracing the bridge across the[4 more...]
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, Chapter 16: Atlanta campaign-battles about Kenesaw Mountain. June, 1864. (search)
ille and Chattanooga that we were naturally sensitive for the safety of our railroad and depots, so that the left (McPherson) was held very strong. About this time came reports that a large cavalry force of the enemy had passed around our left flank, evidently to strike this very railroad somewhere below Chattanooga. I therefore reenforced the cavalry stationed from Resaca to Cassville, and ordered forward from Huntsville, Alabama, the infantry division of General John E. Smith, to hold Kingston securely. While we were thus engaged about Kenesaw, General Grant had his hands full with Lee, in Virginia. General Halleck was the chief of staff at Washington, and to him I communicated almost daily. I find from my letter-book that on the 21st of June I reported to him tersely and truly the condition of facts on that day: This is the nineteenth day of rain, and the prospect of fair weather is as far off as ever. The roads are impassable; the fields and woods become quagmires after a
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 20 (search)
rest of the army should move bodily to some point on the Macon Railroad below East Point. Luckily, I learned just then that the enemy's cavalry, under General Wheeler, had made a wide circuit around our left flank, and had actually reached our railroad at Tilton Station, above Resaca, captured a drove 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. General John E. Smith, who was at Kingston, collected 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 detachment of the enemy's cavalry appeared in force about Allatoona and the Etowah bridge, when I became fully convinced that Hood had sent all of his cavalry to raid upon our railroads. For some days our communication with Nashville was interrupted by the destruction of the telegraph-lines, as well as railroad. I at once orde
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 21 (search)
ld strike our railroad nearer us, viz., about Kingston or Marietta. Orders were at once made for ry heavy. A force moving from Stilesboroa to Kingston gives me some anxiety. Tell me where Sherman Allatoona on the 4th, when he telegraphed to Kingston for cars, and a train of thirty empty cars was, from McGuire's; and General Howard's, from Kingston. We all reached Resaca during that night, anof cars, and I transferred my headquarters to Kingston as more central; and from that place, on the gain telegraphed to General Grant. Kingston, Georgia, November 2, 1864. Lieutenant-General U.ectly. On the 2d of November I was at Kingston, Georgia, and my four corps--the Fifteenth, Sevencorps (Seventeenth), and we were receiving at Kingston recruits and returned furlough-men, distributilroad; and General Steedman had come down to Kingston, to take charge of the final evacuation and wnight of the 10th, and next day Corse reached Kingston. On the 11th General Thomas and I interchang[8 more...]
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 22 (search)
l field orders, no. 119.] headquarters military division of the Mississippi, in the field, Kingston, Georgia, November 8, 1864. The general commanding deems it proper at this time to inform the ofl field orders, no. 120.] headquarters military division of the Mississippi, in the field, Kingston, Georgia, November 9, 1864. 1. For the purpose of military operations, this army is divided intonight. General William F. Barry had been chief of artillery in the previous campaign, but at Kingston his face was so swollen with erysipelas that he was reluctantly compelled to leave us for the rI myself am somewhat astonished at the attitude of things in Tennessee. I purposely delayed at Kingston until General Thomas assured me that he was all ready, and my last dispatch from him of the 12tt Thomas should follow up his success to the very utmost point. My orders to him before I left Kingston were, after beating Hood, to follow him as far as Columbus, Mississippi, or Selma, Alabama, bot
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 23 (search)
sta. Canby and Thomas should penetrate Alabama as far as possible, to keep employed at least a part of Hood's army; or, what would accomplish the same thing, Thomas might reoccupy the railroad from Chattanooga forward to the Etowah, viz., Rome, Kingston, and Allatoona, thereby threatening Georgia. I know that the Georgia troops are disaffected. At Savannah I met delegates from several counties of the southwest, who manifested a decidedly hostile spirit to the Confederate cause. I nursed the move heaven and earth to catch me, for success to this column is fatal to his dream of empire. Richmond is not more vital to his cause than Columbia and the heart of South Carolina. If Thomas will not move on Selma, order him to occupy Rome, Kingston, and Allatoona, and again threaten Georgia in the direction of Athens. I think the poor white trash of the South are falling out of their ranks by sickness, desertion, and every available means; but there is alarge class of vindictive Souther