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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), The Confederate Secret service (search)
n and on every bloody ground, these men risked their lives at the forefront of the battle, speeding stirring orders of advance, warnings of impending danger, and sullen admissions of defeat. They were on the advanced lines of Yorktown, and the saps and trenches at Charleston, Vicksburg, and Port Hudson, near the battle-lines at Chickamauga and Chancellorsville, before the fort-crowned crest of Fredericksburg, amid the frightful carnage of Antietam, on Kenesaw Mountain deciding the fate of Allatoona, in Sherman's march to the sea, and with Grant's victorious army at Appomattox and Richmond. They signaled to Porter clearing the central Mississippi River, and aided Farragut when forcing the passage of Mobile Bay. Signaling from the Cobb's Hill tower by the Appomatox. In this second view of the Cobb's Hill signal tower, appearing in full length on the opposite page, the signalman has dipped his flag forward in front of him—signifying Three. Signal messages were sent by mea
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), The Signal Corps (search)
age of Antietam, on Kenesaw Mountain deciding the fate of Allatoona, in Sherman's march to the sea, and with Grant's victorioSignal Corps was connected with the successful defense of Allatoona, Sherman's reserve depot in which were stored three millin of about sixty-five hundred men was detached to capture Allatoona. With the Confederates intervening and telegraph lines dsaw Mountain. Corse was at Rome, thirty-six miles beyond Allatoona. From Vining's Station, the message was flagged over the heads of the foe to Allatoona by way of Kenesaw, and thence telegraphed to Corse, as follows: General Corse: Sherman direct General Vandever. At the same time a message was sent to Allatoona: Sherman is moving with force. Hold out. And again: Holdgress of the battle. That afternoon came a despatch from Allatoona, sent during the engagement: We are all right so far. Genal work of value intervened between Missionary Ridge and Allatoona, so that the Signal Corps was placed even more to the fro
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Movement against Allatoona — letter from General S. G. French. (search)
n your article. You repeat, in reference to Allatoona, Hood ordered French's division to move up tain, and the division that will have gone to Allatoona, to march thence to New Hope church, and on h, is small, and when General French goes to Allatoona, if he can get such information as would jusded, while he would not even conjecture that Allatoona was fortified. Further, if he knew of the g could plainly see the smoke of battle about Allatoona and hear the faint reverberation of the cann at Dallas and the detachment then assailing Allatoona. The rest of the army was directed straight for Allatoona, northwest, distant eighteen miles. * * * I watched with painful suspense the indicat satisfaction that the smoke of battle about Allatoona grew less and less, and ceased altogether aberpose between the detachment then assailing Allatoona and Hood's main army. Wherein, then, was th will here add that General Corse arrived at Allatoona with his brigade and assumed command before [9 more...]
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 9: (search)
rietta, or to the Chattahoochee River itself, a movement similar to the one afterward so successfully practiced at Atlanta. All the orders were issued to bring forward supplies enough to fill our wagons, intending to strip the railroad back to Allatoona, and leave that place as our depot, to be covered as well as possible by Garrard's cavalry. General Thomas, as usual, shook his head, deeming it risky to leave the railroad; but something had to be done, and I had resolved on this move, as repm the railroad with ten days supplies in wagons. Johnston may come out of his intrenchments to attack Thomas, which is exactly what I want, for General Thomas is well intrenched on a line parallel with the enemy south of Kenesaw. I think that Allatoona and the line of the Etowah are strong enough for me to venture on this move. The movement is substantially down the Sandtown road straight for Atlanta. McPherson drew out his lines during the night of July 2d, leaving Garrard's cavalry, dis
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter VIII (search)
prudence stretch out any more, but we did not agree in the conclusion and therefore there was no alternative, etc. Indeed, such conclusion was extremely illogical, as was demonstrated a few days later, when one of the other alternatives was adopted with success. This successful movement was essentially the same as that which had been previously made to dislodge the enemy from Dalton, and that by which Sherman's army had been transferred from New Hope Church to the railroad in front of Allatoona, as well as that by which Atlanta was afterward captured. Hence the existence of this alternative could not have been unthought of by any of us at the time of the assault on Kenesaw. But there was another alternative in this and similar cases, which was much discussed at various times during the campaign. Its practicability can be judged of only upon general principles, for it was never tried. It was to detach two or three corps, nearly half our army (which was about double the stren
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter IX (search)
e destinies of nations. After the capture of Atlanta, in September, 1864, General Sherman proposed to give his army rest for a month while he perfected his plans and preparations for a change of base to some point on the Atlantic or the gulf, in pursuance of the general plan outlined by General Grant before the Atlanta campaign was opened in May. But the Confederate commander took the initiative, about September 20, by moving his army around Sherman's right, striking his railroad about Allatoona and toward Chattanooga, doing some damage, and then marching off westward with the design of transferring the theater of war from Georgia to Alabama, Mississippi, or Tennessee. Sherman very promptly decided not to accept that challenge to meet Hood upon a field chosen by the latter, but to continue substantially the original plan for his own operations, having in view also new ulterior plans opened to him by this erratic movement of his adversary. An essential modification of the origi
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
63; Thomas proposes a campaign in, 253, 255, 256, 305; abundance of supplies in, 288; Thomas to have command over, 317 Alexander, Col. Barton S., trip to Hawaii with S., 431 Alexandria, Va., provisional government of Virginia at, 394 Allatoona, Ga., military operations near, 143, 163 American Association for the Advancement of Science, 28 Americans, patriotism and courage among, 183 American soldier, the, business methods in his movements, 145; has a mind of his own, 155; manhood ttanooga Valley, 161, 162; coincidence of Sherman's and Hood's movements, 162; possibilities and fears of his invading Kentucky and Ohio, 163, 185, 193, 259, 260, 295, 300, 303, 305; movement around Sherman's right, 163; strikes the railroad at Allatoona, 163; Thomas ordered to operate against, 163; varying conditions of strength as compared with Thomas, 163, 164, 190-199, 237, 247, 248, 252, 255, 259-262, 284, 288, 300-302, 308, 314, 319; near Florence, 165; his advance on Pulaski anticipated,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Allatoona pass, (search)
und. For several days, constantly skirmishing, Sherman tried to break through their lines to the railway east of the Allatoona Pass. McPherson's troops moved to Dallas, and Thomas's deployed against New Hope Church, in the vicinity of which therty, north of Marietta, and destroyed it for several miles. A division of infantry pushed northward and appeared before Allatoona, where Colonel Tourtellotte was guarding 1,000,000 National rations with only three thin regiments. Sherman made effort Rome, to hasten to the assistance of Tourtellotte. Corse instantly obeyed; and when the Confederates appeared before Allatoona, at dawn (Oct. 5), he was there with reinforcements, and in command. The Confederates were vastly superior in numbers,pushed forward a corps (23d) to menace the Confederate rear, and by signal-flags on Kenesaw he said to General Corse at Allatoona. Hold the fort, for I am coming. And when Sherman was assured that Corse was there, he said, He will hold out; I know
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Corse, John Murray 1835-1893 (search)
Corse, John Murray 1835-1893 Military officer; born in Pittsburg, Pa., April 27, 1835; graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1857; then studied law; and enlisted in the Union army at the beginning of the Civil War. In 1864 with about 1,000 troops he was ordered to Allatoona, Ga., where were stored large commissary supplies. The place was soon attacked by about 4,000 Confederates, but Corse refused to surrender, and bravely repulsed every onslaught of the enemy till reinforcements arrived from Sherman. Sherman had signalled Corse, Hold the fort, for I am coming, and this phrase was afterwards made the subject of an inspiring hymn by Ira D. Sankey. For this heroic defence Corse was brevetted a brigadier-general. He died in Winchester, Mass., April 27, 1893.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Myer, Albert James 1827- (search)
on special duty in the signal service, and in the latter year he was appointed chief signal-officer, with the rank of major. In June, 1861, he was made chief signalofficer on General Butler's staff, and afterwards on that of General McClellan, and was very active during the whole peninsular campaign. Colonel Myer took charge of the signal bureau in Washington, March 3, 1863, and for service at various points, and especially in giving timely signals that saved the fort and garrison at Allatoona, Ga., he was brevetted through all the grades from lieutenant-colonel to brigadier-general. In 1866 he was appointed colonel and signal-officer of the United States army, and introduced a course of signal studies at West Point and Annapolis. He was the author of the weather-signal system, and its chief till his death, in Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 24, 1880. In 1873 he was a delegate to the International Meteorological Congress at Vienna. He published a Manual of signals for the United States a
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