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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 37: Battle of Lovejoy's Station and capture of Atlanta (search)
and think awhile over the next step required in the progress of events. The Army of the Cumberland led the return. It was, after the march, grouped in and about Atlanta. With the Army of the Tennessee I followed, and took up a defensive camp at East Point, between six and seven miles south of Atlanta; while the Army of the Ohio covered our eastern approaches by camping near Decatur. The campaign had already been a long and costly one since its beginning, May 6th, at Tunnel Hill, near Dalton. According to the reports which Sherman gathered, the aggregate loss up to that time to the Confederates was nearly 35,000 men, but he remembered that his own aggregate was not much less, being in the neighborhood of 35,000. His command had been for the most part under fire for 113 days, including three days rest at the Etowah. In my letters home I wrote: Atlanta is a handsome place, with wide streets, and houses much scattered. I have my army to refit and reorganize. General
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 39: General Hood's northward march; Sherman in pursuit; battle of Allatoona (search)
e Allatoona, and also the prevention of Armstrong's cavalry from destroying the bridge across the Etowah, was brought to Hood, then near Lost Mountain, he continued his march daily northward. He crossed the Coosa River near the hamlet of Coosaville, and then marched up the western bank of the Oostenaula. He went above Resaca, and quite completely destroyed the railroad all the way along above Resaca toward Chattanooga as far as our first battleground, Tunnel Hill. He captured our posts at Dalton and Buzzard Roost, securing at least 1,000 prisoners. By this time the Confederate cavalry under Wheeler had rejoined his army. As a last effort General Stephen D. Lee, with his corps, undertook the capture of the garrison at Resaca. Hood himself made the demand, October 12, 1864, to the commanding officer in these terms: Sir: I demand the immediate and unconditional surrender of the post and garrison under your command, and should this be acceded to, all white soldiers and officer
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
., I, 66, 67. Craighill, William P., I, 281. Cravath, E. M., 11, 407. Crawford, Samuel W., I, 295. Crook, George, 1, 302-305. Cross, Edward A., I, 185, 243, 247, 301, 342. Cruft, Charles, I, 476. Cudlipp, William, II, 465-467. Curtin, A. G., I, 138. Curtis, N. M., II, 347. Custer, George A., II, 475. Cutler, Lysander, I, 407, 415. Cuyler, John M., I, 181, 253. Dahlgren, John A., II, 85,91,92,96. Daily, Dennis, I, 497. Dallas, Battle of, I, 550-570. Dalton, Battle of, I, 499-512. Dana, N. J. T., I, 239, 292, 296, 297. Danby, Miss, II, 99. Daniels, Mary E., II, 556. Darling, John A., 11, 546. Davidson, J. W., I, 218. Davis, B. F., I, 277. Davis, Henry Winter, II, 321. Davis, James, II, 381. Davis, Jeff. C., I, 476, 497, 520, 28, 542, 557-560, 581, 584, 585; II, 29, 39, 43, 51, 52, 57, 146, 290, 345, 463. Davis, Jefferson, I, 99, 203, 488; II, 48, 93. Davis, Joseph R., I, 408, 415. Day, H. Howard, II, 327. Da