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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Sketches of the Third Maryland Artillery . (search)
Sketches of the Third Maryland Artillery. By Captain William L. Ritter.
The disastrous expedition to Sherman's rear.
The movement of Hood's army to Sherman's rear began on the 29th of September, 1864.
The Chattahoochee river was crossed on the 30th, and part of the army proceeded to Lost Mountain, while another part made for Ackworth and Big Shanty and captured the garrisons at those places.
Marching by way of Dallas, Van Wert and Cave Spring, the army next reached Cedartown, where the wagon train, the sick and the shoeless, with all the artillery except one battery of each battalion were left behind; while the remainder of the army proceeded to Resaca and Dalton.
Stevenson's division started on the 9th of October, at noon, and the Third Maryland was the battery chosen to accompany it.
It was the intention of General Stephen D. Lee, who commanded the corps, to capture the garrison at Resaca, and he made forced marches in order to take it by surprise.
On the 12th it was s