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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
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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
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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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, you will stipulate for honorable terms and a free passage by water with your company to New York. J. Holt, Secretary of War. To have resisted such a force, then ready to attack me, with my knowledge of large reinforcements at Savannah and Atlanta ready to come up by rail at a moment's warning, would have been desperation in my weak position. I therefore directed my adjutant to address and convey the following note in reply to the governor's demand: Headquarters Augusta Arsenal, Januas filled the eyes of those who witnessed the scene. Walker began here an honorable career in the Confederate cause, became a major-general, was distinguished for his reckless daring, and finally gave his life in the great battle on the hills of Atlanta. Elzey also entered the Confederate service as soon as circumstances permitted, and was one of the most distinguished representatives of Maryland in the army of Northern Virginia. His cool and intrepid action on the field of First Manassas won

e, was tendered to the government at Montgomery by its commanding officer, and accepted March 5th. During his return to Atlanta, a number of enthusiastic ladies on the railroad train procured material and made a Confederate flag after a model of the first flag of the Confederate States raised at Montgomery, March 4th, under which the company paraded at Atlanta immediately afterward. The earliest organizations of commands had abundantly demonstrated the enthusiastic desire of the people to er's election as lieutenant-colonel) Washington Rifles (E), Sandersville, Capt. S. A. H. Jones Gate City Guards (F), Atlanta, Capt. W. L. Ezzard, and later Capt. C. A. Stone Bainbridge Independents (G), Capt. John W. Evans Dahlonega Volunteershe Thirty-sixth regiment Georgia volunteers. The first Georgia soldiers at Pensacola were the volunteers organized at Atlanta by Capt. G. W. Lee, who took his command to the Florida port, with a letter from Adjutant-General Cooper to General Brag

volunteered for the expedition with knowledge of its character were tried as spies, convicted on evidence and ordered to be executed. The others who had become implicated through the orders of their superior officers were held in confinement at Atlanta. Finally some escaped and others were exchanged. Some very absurd conjectures as to what would have been the result of the success of Andrews' scheme were indulged in by sensational writers on both sides, but a Federal officer has recorded tation, in connection with the smaller number of Confederate troops near, saved the city from attack and capture, without bloodshed and carnage. In the campaign under Bragg through Kentucky and Tennessee, undertaken to protect Chattanooga and Atlanta by carrying the war into the enemy's country, or in that direction, some of the Georgia troops acted a gallant and conspicuous part. The First regiment of partisan rangers, Col. A. A. Hunt, participated in the first Kentucky raid of that famou

a campaign, and especially distinguished in the headlong charge at Atlanta, July 22, 1864, along the Georgia railroad, capturing a battery of Tennessee campaigns, losing heavily in the battle of July 22d, at Atlanta, and again in the battle of Nashville, where with the First Georgion participated in the campaigns of Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta and Nashville, and in the spring of 1865, after being consolidated in Georgia, especially in the Savannah campaign after the fall of Atlanta. The First regiment Georgia reserves, Col. J. H. Fannin; Capts. Savannah during the march of Sherman to the sea after the fall of Atlanta. The officers of the Third Georgia reserves were Col. E. J. Har. R. Cumming, J. Hill, Jr., W. C. Thornton. During the siege of Atlanta the following commands of Georgia State troops participated: Firsttook part in the campaigns of Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Atlanta and subsequent movements in Georgia, ending its service with the f

s the force was estimated at 57,000 men, mainly from Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. The Northern army was encouraged by the progress it had made, had confidence in its general commanding, and was well supplied with provisions, arms, ammunition and clothing. The army of Tennessee, on the contrary, was pervaded by discouragement on account of the retreats it had made, and the bloody battles it had fought without apparent results. Though in its own country, it must depend on the railroad to Atlanta as a base, for northern Georgia was nearly destitute, as has been pointed out in another connection. On the 16th of August, Rosecrans put his army in motion to pass the Cumberland mountains and marched southward. Having crossed the Tennessee river in the vicinity of Stevenson and Bridgeport, Ala., the Federals found themselves confronted by Sand mountain, the northern extremity of which is known as Raccoon mountain. At the eastern base of this ridge runs Lookout creek, separating from

, also offered a plan of campaign. It was his judgment that all other operations must be subordinated to the defense of Atlanta against Grant, holding such places as Richmond, Weldon, Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah, etc., merely as fortified postCumberland mountains, and an army outnumbering his more than two to one. The second course would leave open the road to Atlanta. There was neither subsistence nor field transportation enough for either march. I can see no other mode of taking the this service. The command of this force was conferred upon Howell Cobb, promoted to major-general with headquarters at Atlanta, and under him were Brig.-Gens. Alfred Iverson, Jr., with headquarters at Rome, and Henry R. Jackson at Savannah. Maj.-, 5,943; Mississippi, 6,367; South Carolina, 4,511; Louisiana, 3,039; Tennessee, 2,849; Arkansas, 1,948; Florida, 1,119. During the fall of this year the fortification of Atlanta was begun, under the direction of Col. M. H. Wright, commanding.

pe church and Kenesaw mountain battles about Atlanta Wheeler's raid Jonesboro and the evacuationindicating that he was expected to advance to Atlanta, and thence to Savannah. On April 24th he ret, while 1,000 were in camp of instruction at Atlanta. On June 1st, Maj.-Gen. Gustavus W. Smith, w Decatur, and Schofield marched thence toward Atlanta from the east. These movements were singularest via West Point and Macon, which connected Atlanta with the outside country. He had in use the adier-General Ector, while in the works about Atlanta, was so severely wounded by a fragment of shewas the last outside the Confederate works at Atlanta. Following it the Federals pushed forward cad an order from Hood to return Lee's corps to Atlanta, also Reynolds' brigade, and a brigade or so allant fight secured Hood's safe retreat from Atlanta. The brave stand made by Hardee's men in then on the 5th. Thomas' army was grouped about Atlanta, Howard's at East Point, and Schofield's at D[34 more...]

Chapter 17: The fate of Atlanta Hood's advance in North Georgia attack on Allatoona campaign. Immediately after his return to Atlanta from Jonesboro, Sherman determined to make th, and issued orders accordingly. The city of Atlanta, these orders read, being exclusively requiremation, September 8th: To the Citizens of Atlanta: General Sherman instructs me to say to you tan left General Slocum and his corps to guard Atlanta and the Chattahoochee bridge, and started nor enemy, as well as the railroads in and about Atlanta, and northward to the Etowah. All garrisons elf off from the rear, he concentrated around Atlanta, on the 14th of November, four corps of infans orders Capt. O. M. Poe thoroughly destroyed Atlanta, save its mere dwelling-houses and churches. y thousand of us witnessed the destruction of Atlanta, while our post band and that of the Thirty-tte dwellings or churches. The destruction of Atlanta can never be excused. The name of the Federa[7 more...]

ied it home in safety. It was afterward lost in the burning of a residence, where it had been placed for safekeeping. This company lost 1 killed and 3 wounded at Bentonville. Brigadier-General Iverson in command of 1, 500 cavalry operated on the Georgia side of the Savannah during the advance of Sherman and kept on guard against raids into Georgia. Gen. Joseph Wheeler performed a great service when he defeated Kilpatrick at Aiken, February, 1865, and thus saved Augusta from the fate of Atlanta and Columbia. At Averasboro Wheeler defeated a movement of the enemy upon Hardee's right flank, and covered the retreat when Hardee withdrew. In the engagement at Rivers' bridge, February 3d, the Thirty-second and Forty-seventh regiments, Fifth reserves and Earle's battery, under Lieutenant-Colonel Bacon, were engaged and suffered a loss of 97 killed, wounded and missing. Hoke's division took a prominent part in the battle of Bentonville, and the heaviest losses in killed and wounded

ocal freight agent of the Georgia railroad at Atlanta. He became chief of police of that city and ll, at the celebrated Bush Arbor gathering in Atlanta, July 4, 1868, aroused the people of Georgia mes, serving until 1882. General Cook died at Atlanta, May 22, 1894, at the home of his daughter Luations of like character. His residence is Atlanta, Ga. Brigadier-General William M. Gardner of the war he resumed the practice of law at Atlanta. In 1877 he was a member of the constitution a life of eminent public service, he died at Atlanta, April 7, 1891. Brigadier-General Victor Jhere he had charge of the communications from Atlanta to Tullahoma. Jackson's brigade, composed ofommand. In the battle of the 22d of July, at Atlanta, Stovall's brigade crossed the enemy's works the Chattahoochee line, and of the cities of Atlanta and Macon. It is said that at the close of tis death in the charge upon the Union left at Atlanta, July 22, 1864. On the day before going into[4 more...]

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