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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 14: Sherman's campaign in Georgia. (search)
at all points, skirmishing in dense forests that were furrowed by ravines and tangled with vines, and compelling Operations in Tennessee, Georgia, and Northern Alabama. Johnston to contract his lines and take a position of great strength, with Kenesaw as his salient. From this lofty height he could look down upon the entire host of his antagonist, and his batteries could hurl terrible plunging shot and shell. His right was bent back so as to cover Marietta, and his left was behind Nose Creek, in a position to cover the railway leading from Marietta to the Chattahoochee. For three weeks, at the period we are considering, rain fell copiously, almost without intermission, drenching the contending armies, and flooding the whole country. During our operations about Kenesaw, said Sherman, the weather was villainously bad, the rain rendering our narrow, wooded roads, mere mud gullies, so that a general movement would be impossible. Yet he did not cease his labors, and every hour