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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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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 7 (search)
ilroad-trains were ready. He was also requested to give the necessary orders at West Point and Atlanta. All the infantry in the department would have been sent to the assistance of the Army of Ting summoned by the judge-advocate, Major Barton, to attend the court of inquiry, to be held in Atlanta, in relation to the loss of Vicksburg and Port Hudson, I set out for that place in the evening received a dispatch from General Bragg, asking that a division of infantry might be hurried to Atlanta, to save that depot and give him time to defeat the enemy's plans. Lieutenant-General Hardee was immediately requested to send Gregg's and McNair's brigades from Meridian and Enterprise to Atlanta, and to replace them at those points by Featherston's and Adams's. This movement was begun the following night. When it became evident that Atlanta was in no danger, the two brigades sent to defend it were ordered to join General Bragg's army near Chattanooga, and were engaged in the battle of
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 9 (search)
Department of Mississippi, promised by Lieutenant-General Polk. The army depends for subsistence upon an officer at Atlanta (Major Cummings), who acts under the orders of the Commissary-General. The chief commissary of the army reports that tategic advantage. It neither fully covered its own communications nor threatened those of the enemy. The railroad from Atlanta to Chattanooga passes through Rocky-Faced Ridge by Mill-Creek Gap, three miles and a half beyond Dalton, but very obliqu of a superior force from Ringgold to Dalton. Between Mill-Creek and Snake-Creek Gaps, this ridge protects the road to Atlanta on the west, but at the same time covers any direct approach from Chattanooga to Resaca or Calhoun-points on the route fs of State troops to the army. They were placed as guards for the protection of the railroad-bridges between Dalton and Atlanta. Intrenchments for this object were then in course of construction, under the direction of the chief-engineer of the ar
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 10 (search)
Lieutenant-General Polk thought at the end of February that he could send fifteen thousand cavalry on such an expedition. Even two-thirds of that force might injure the railroads enough to compel the evacuation of Chattanooga. Certainly it could make a powerful diversion. I apprehend no difficulty in procuring food (except meat) and forage. This department can furnish nothing. Its officers receive supplies from those of the Subsistence and Quartermaster's Departments at and beyond Atlanta. The efficient head of the Ordnance Department has never permitted us to want any thing that could reasonably be expected from him. I am afraid that the collection of the additional field-transportation will require a good deal of time. None can be obtained within the limits of my authority. There has been an unnecessary accumulation of bread-stuffs and corn at Mobile-six months supply for a much larger force than Major-General Maury's. Half of it will spoil during the summer, if left
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 11 (search)
r the roads leading from that vicinity toward Atlanta: the left of Hardee's corps at Gilgal Church,nd occupied in two lines crossing the road to Atlanta almost at right angles-Loring's corps on the he work of strengthening the intrenchments of Atlanta with all the negro laborers that could be colght be made very valuable in operations about Atlanta. On the 17th, At night. Major-General Wht the advance of the enemy to the vicinity of Atlanta, far in the interior of Georgia, and express army had a near and secure place of refuge in Atlanta, which it could hold forever, and so win the y place of safety in the event of defeat, was Atlanta — a hundred miles off, with three rivers intewn. Reply of President Davis, received at Atlanta, July 4, 1864. Richmond, June 29th. To Governessee when, on the 18th of July, 1864, at Atlanta, Georgia, you were relieved of command, I have thecared for, and well handled. When we reached Atlanta, we were nearer to our base, and the enemy fa[27 more...]
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 12 (search)
y. In his brief report by telegraph, General Hardee stated that his loss in killed, wounded, and missing, was about five hundred; prisoners taken next day, said that theirs was above three thousand; as reported to General Sherman, it was seventy-seven killed, and four hundred and seven wounded. That report, if correct, proves that the soldiers of General Sherman's army had been demoralized by their course of life on Southern plantations. Those soldiers, when fighting between Dalton and Atlanta, could not have been driven back repeatedly by a fourth of their number, with a loss so utterly insignificant. It is unaccountable, too, that the party fighting under cover and holding its ground should have a hundred and eight men killed, and that unsheltered and repulsed, but seventy-seven. It was ascertained, on the 17th, that the troops with which Lieutenant-General Hardee was engaged the day before were not marching toward Raleigh; but no precise intelligence of the movements of
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 14 (search)
ting you to command after your removal before Atlanta. This latter document was in my possessioa new position, and so on until he arrived at Atlanta; that his losses, when he arrived there, amouirect interrogatory as to his ability to hold Atlanta, Johnston failed to impress the Department wi None such are to be found between Dalton and Atlanta. Wherever the two armies confronted each othar of that point, to avoid being cut off from Atlanta. At New-Hope Church, where the armies were p; to place ourselves nearer than the enemy to Atlanta. In all this, I was sustained by General Leeur days; the Federal army being two days from Atlanta when I was removed from my command. In compawas never questioned as to my ability to hold Atlanta. General Bragg, who undoubtedly visited the lready quoted: The country between Dalton and Atlanta is, for the most part, open, intersected by nrate army from Buzzard's Roost Pass to near Atlanta, Ga., embracing the period from May 6th to July [1 more...]
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Letters. (search)
nd do whatever else belongs to the general commanding. Very respectfully and truly yours, Jefferson Davis. Tullahoma, February 2, 1863. Hon J. A. Seddon, Secretary of War, Richmond: I have just read the report of furloughs and discharges at Atlanta — from General Bragg's troops alone, sixty-six discharges, fourteen hundred and eighty-one furloughs in three months preceding January 14th-and respectfully repeat my recommendation that Article 4, General Orders No. 72, be revolved because it iequal number, come here immediately.... J. E. Johnston. Tullahoma, April 18, 1863. Brigadier-General Jackson, Chattanooga: Stop all troops from the Department of Mississippi until General Buford receives General Pemberton's orders. Do it at Atlanta, as well as Chattanooga. J. E. Johnston, General. Jackson, May 13, 1863. Hon. J. A. Seddon, Richmond: I arrived this evening, finding the enemy in force between this place and General Pemberton, cutting off the communication. I am too l
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Memorandum for Colonel Browne, Aide-de-camp. (search)
intrenched. As the enemy has double our numbers, we must be on the defensive. My plan of operations must, therefore, depend upon that of the enemy. It is, mainly, to watch for an opportunity to fight to advantage. We are trying to put Atlanta in condition to be held for a day or two by the Georgia militia, that army movements may be freer and wider. J. E. Johnston. Near Greensboro, North Carolina, May 1, 1865. 1. The effective strength of the Army of Tennessee, as shown bas made under General Johnston, and signed by General Hood. On the 18th of July the command was turned over to General Hood. The first return thereafter was that of August 1st, after the engagements of Peach-tree Creek, on the 21st, and around Atlanta, on the 22d and 28th July. 7. The foregoing figures are taken from the official records kept by me as Assistant Adjutant-General of the Army. (Signed) Kinloch Falconer, Assistant Adjutant-General. In the return of the Army of Tennesse
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Consolidated Summaries in the armies of Tennessee and Mississippi during the campaign commencing May 7, 1864, at Dalton, Georgia, and ending after the engagement with the enemy at Jonesboroa and the evacuation at Atlanta, furnished for the information of General Joseph E. Johnston (search)
ending after the engagement with the enemy at Jonesboroa and the evacuation at Atlanta, furnished for the information of General Joseph E. Johnston Columbus, Gey of Mississippi being merged into it) in the Series of Engagements around Atlanta, Georgia, commencing July 4, and ending July 31, 1864: Corps.Killed.Wounded.Tota Consolidated Summary of Casualties in Army of Tennessee in Engagements around Atlanta and Jonesboroa from August 1 to September 1, 1864: Corps.Killed.Wounded.Tottion of which two reports is as follows: Corps.Killed.Wounded.Total Around Atlanta, July 4 to July 31, 18641,3417,5008,841 Atlanta and Jonesboroa August 1 to SeAtlanta and Jonesboroa August 1 to September 1, 18644823,2233,705 1,82310,72312,546 I certify that the above reports are from the returns made to my office, and are in my opinion correct. (Signed) A. J. Foard, Medical Director late Army of Tennessee. Note.-The Atlanta-Dalton campaign began on May 7th, and ended on the 1st of September, 1864, and the
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Memoranda of the operations of my corps, while under the command of General J. E. Johnston, in the Dalton and Atlanta, and North Carolina campaigns. (search)
Memoranda of the operations of my corps, while under the command of General J. E. Johnston, in the Dalton and Atlanta, and North Carolina campaigns. Dalton and Atlanta. At the beginning of the campaign my corps consisted of Cheatham's, Cleburne's, Walker's, and Bate's divisions (about twenty thousand muskets), and four battalions of artillery. May 7th. Cheatham's and Bate's divisions sent to report to Hood, and put in position at and to the right of Mill Creek Gap, where they were constantly skirmishing till night of 12th. May 8th. Cleburne's division moved to Dug Gap, and assisted Grigsby's cavalry to repel attack of part of Hooker's corps. Walker had to be sent to Resaca, and moved subsequently to left front of Calhoun, to meet advance of McPherson. May 12th. At night my corps moved to Resaca. Heavy skirmishing and occasional assaults on my line at Resaca 13th, 14th, and 15th May--on 13th principally, on Cheatham's line; on 14th and 15th, on Cleburne's and
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