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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) 1,463 127 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 1,378 372 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 810 42 Browse Search
John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies 606 8 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 565 25 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 473 17 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 373 5 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 372 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 277 1 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 232 78 Browse Search
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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 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Contents (search)
Contents   page Map--Theatre of Georgia and the Carolinas CAMPAIGNS2 Frontispiece--A shot that Startled WASHINGTON4 introduction   Frederick Dent Grant13 Part I Grant Versus Lee   Henry W. Elson   the battle in the WILDERNESS21  Spotsylvania and the Bloody Angle51  attack and repulse at Cold Harbor79 Part II the simultaneous movements   Henry W. Elson   Drewry's Bluff IMPREGNABLE93  to Atlanta — Sherman Versus JOHNSTON99  the last conflicts in the SHENANDOAH139 Part III closing in   Henry W. Elson   Charleston, the unconquered PORT169  the investment of Petersburg175  Sherman's final CAMPAIGNS209 Part IV from war to peace   Henry W. Elson   Nashville — the end in Tennessee   the siege and fall of Petersburg   Appomattox  Part V engagements of the Civil War from May, 1864, to May, 1865   George L. Kilmer  Photographic descriptions thr
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Introduction (search)
n was at Dalton, in the northern part of Georgia, facing Sherman and defending Atlanta, a great railroad center and a point of concentration of supplies for the Conforthern Georgia to the Chattahoochee River, which it crossed, and moved toward Atlanta. The first phase of the great campaign was thus ended, and the second phase np the Confederate armies within the besieged cities, Richmond, Petersburg, and Atlanta, and actively to engage the outside troops, to drive all the smaller bands to policy, relieved Johnston, an officer of great ability, who was commanding at Atlanta. Hood was placed in charge of that wing of the army. He immediately assumed f July, but was defeated and thrown back, with great losses, into his works at Atlanta. Sherman soon followed Hood's lead by making another flank movement, which the circumference of which would pass through Richmond, Petersburg, Savannah, Atlanta, and Nashville. The policy maintained was continually to reduce the size of t
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 4 (search)
e final great double movement of the war. Taking control of the whole campaign against Lee, but leaving the Army of the Potomac under Meade's direct command, he chose the strongest of his corps commanders, W. T. Sherman, for the head of affairs in the West. Grant's immediate objects were to defeat Lee's army and to capture Richmond, the latter to be accomplished by General Butler and the Army of the James; Sherman's object was to crush Johnston, to seize that important railroad center, Atlanta, Georgia, and, with Banks' assistance, to open a way between the Atlantic coast and Mobile, on the Gulf, thus dividing the Confederacy north and south, as the conquest of the Mississippi had parted it east and west. It was believed that if either or both of these campaigns were successful, the downfall of the Confederacy would be assured. Belle plain, where the wagon-trains started In Grant's advance through the desolate tract guarded by Lee's veterans, extending for ten miles along the
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), To Atlanta (search)
d in time to join Schofield after the fall of Atlanta and to assist him in driving Hood and Forrestderal cavalry was threatening the railroad to Atlanta which ran beyond the river. It was the knowlsting his army for a few days, to move toward Atlanta by way of Dallas, southwest of the pass. Rath-Tree Creek about five miles to the north of Atlanta. Here he awaited the approach of Sherman. A a special target for their artillery. After Atlanta fell, nearly a ton of shot and shell was founust do more than he had done; he must capture Atlanta, this Richmond of the far South, with its can split it east and west. Sherman must have Atlanta, for political reasons as well as for militar A Federal picket post on the lines before Atlanta. This picture was taken shortly before the bth a will. Sherman saw that in order to take Atlanta without terrific loss he must cut off all itsd toiled all the summer long. At East Point, Atlanta, and Decatur, the three armies settled for a [31 more...]
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 7 (search)
the heights, which must be surmounted before Atlanta, the coveted goal, could be reached. But thederal cavalry was threatening the railroad to Atlanta which ran beyond the river. It was the knowld. Palisades and Chevaux-de-frise guarding Atlanta At last Sherman is before Atlanta. The phs two months in retreat the fortifications at Atlanta had been strengthened to the utmost. What hel Sherman and his hundred thousand men before Atlanta. Do something — something spectacular — save A Federal picket post on the lines before Atlanta. This picture was taken shortly before the bl army was closing in on the entrenchments of Atlanta, and was now within two or three miles of thelroad wreckers that finally drove Hood out of Atlanta. In the picture the rails heating red-hot amth a will. Sherman saw that in order to take Atlanta without terrific loss he must cut off all itsh Sherman had laid out preparatory to holding Atlanta as a military post. In the left background r[31 more...]<
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), The investment of Petersburg (search)
al Grant's headquarters at city Point. From here it was but a few minutes' ride on the rough military railway to where the one hundred and ten thousand fighting men lay entrenched with the sixty-six thousand veterans in gray opposed to them. A warship lying where these vessels lie could drop a 12-inch shell into Petersburg in modern days. From here President Lincoln set out to see a grand review and witnessed a desperate battle. Here General Sherman, fresh from his victorious march from Atlanta to the sea, came up in the little gunboat Bat to visit Grant. During the last days, when to the waiting world peace dawned in sight, city Point, to all intents and purposes, was the National capital, for from here President Lincoln held communication with his Cabinet officers, and replied to Stanton's careful injunctions to take care of himself with the smiling assurance that he was in the hands of Grant and the army. The teeming wharves Supplies for an army. An engine of the U. S
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Sherman's final campaigns (search)
The last train of refugees was ready to leave Atlanta. Sherman outlined very clearly his reasons f Sherman's order evicting the inhabitants of Atlanta, September, 1864, picture 1: train of cars stth the great campaign between Chattanooga and Atlanta through which he had just passed. As a militadded fascination. Many of the people of Atlanta chose to go southward, others to the north, tis army from Lovejoy's Station, just south of Atlanta, to the vicinity of Macon. Here Jefferson Daood, in the hope of leading Sherman away from Atlanta, crossed the Chattahoochee on the 1st of Octohile all detachments were marching rapidly to Atlanta with orders to break up the railroad en route artillery and the foraging Sherman at Atlanta. In Hood's hasty evacuation of Atlanta manhe outside world, the first since he had left Atlanta. Henceforth there was communication betweeares in his memoirs, he would place that from Atlanta to the sea at one, and that from Savannah thr[32 more...]
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Nashville — the end in Tennessee (search)
ed to skeleton commands and forced to retreat.--Lieutenant-General James Longstreet, C. S.A., in From Manassas to Appomattox. While Hood was turning back from Atlanta in the great northward movement, which, in the hopes of the Confederacy, would bring the Army of Tennessee to the banks of the Ohio, there was gathering at and artability averted overwhelming defeat for the Federals at Chickamauga. At Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge he was a host in himself. After Sherman had taken Atlanta he sent Thomas back to Tennessee to grapple with Hood. How he crushed Hood by his sledge-hammer blows is told in the accompanying text. Thomas, sitting down in ng the Franklin pike through Brentwood Pass. This Confederate Army of Tennessee had had a glorious history. It had fought with honor from Donelson and Shiloh to Atlanta and Nashville. It had been at Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, and Missionary Ridge. Now, shattered and demoralized, it was relentlessly pursued bey
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 11 (search)
Sherman, fresh from his victorious march from Atlanta to the sea, came up in the little gunboat Batsalient of the Confederate lines southeast of Atlanta near which their Camp was pitched. The organf Sherman's order evicting the inhabitants of Atlanta, September, 1864. A train of cars stands emp upset. As early as September, Sherman, with Atlanta on his hands, had deemed it essential for theth the great campaign between Chattanooga and Atlanta through which he had just passed. As a milit later generation who witnessed the growth of Atlanta within less than half a century after this ph bustle of departure from Atlanta Ruins in Atlanta Sherman's men worked like beavers during tl further reduced by the necessity to fortify Atlanta. On the march to the sea Sherman took with hares in his memoirs, he would place that from Atlanta to the sea at one, and that from Savannah thrs a host in himself. After Sherman had taken Atlanta he sent Thomas back to Tennessee to grapple w[36 more...]
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Engagements of the Civil war: with losses on both sides: May, 1864--June, 1865 (search)
fed., 1113 killed, 2500 wounded, 1183 missing. July 22, 1864: Atlanta, Ga. (Hood's first sortie.) Union, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seven2 captured; Confed., 12 killed, 20 wounded. July 28, 1864: Atlanta, Ga. (Second sortie; at Ezra Church.) Union, Fifteenth, Sixteenth000 wounded, 1000 missing. July 28, 1864 to Sept. 2: siege of Atlanta, Ga. Union, Army of the Military Division of the Mississippi, Maj.ed. No record found. September 2, 1864: Federal occupation of Atlanta, Ga. (evacuation by Hood's rear-guard during the night of the 1st.) on his series of battles and flanking marches in the struggle for Atlanta. They had taken a conspicuous and important part in the battle of July 22d east of Atlanta, receiving and finally repulsing attacks in both front and rear. They had marched with Sherman to the sea and partr commander, that the mayor surrendered. For two months they held Atlanta and its approaches from the North while the rest of Sherman's army