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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 198 2 Browse Search
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) 75 1 Browse Search
John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies 68 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 66 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 60 0 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 60 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 28 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 23 1 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 20 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 19 1 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Hardee and the Military operations around Atlanta. (search)
the attack on the extreme easterly force near Decatur. In reference to the detour to and through Decatur, referred to by General Hood, General Hardee says that movement was considered and discusof Atlanta and some five miles southwest of Decatur. Two plans of operations seem to have been dr, was a surprise; whereas a detour by way of Decatur, and the collision with the brigade (Sprague'ave been wholly defeated by Hardee's march to Decatur and the consequent collision with the detachm, by locating the Federal forces north of the Decatur road. But, as is elsewhere shown in the texton's armies had advanced to Atlanta by way of Decatur. And McPherson was now facing and entrenchedtour of eighteen miles by way of Cobb's mill, Decatur and back to the rear of the enemy near Atlantsted at a point some five miles southwest of Decatur; and from the point where Hardee halted and tof McPherson's left flank, every step towards Decatur would have been a step away from and not towa[23 more...]