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William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 9: (search)
or two more such assaults would use up this army. G. H. Thomas, Major-General. Sherman to Thomas, June 27, 4:10 P. M.: Schofield has gained the crossing of Olley's Creek, on the Sandtown road, e batteries in the manner proposed by Davis. I doubt if we can resort to regular approaches. Thomas to Sherman, June 27, 6 P. M.: The assault of the enemy's works in my front was well arranged, anr enfilading the enemy's works. We took between ninety and one hundred prisoners. Sherman to Thomas, June 27, evening: Let your troops fortify as close up to the enemy as possible. Get good posit Hooker and Schofield the first day we occupied our present ground. The excuses made to General Thomas for the assault in the last part of the above dispatch are significant. The same evening t us more lives than we can spare. And yet at 9 o'clock the same evening he telegraphed General Thomas: Are you willing to risk the move on Fulton, cutting loose from our railroad? It would
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 14: (search)
now be found there: War Department, Adjutant-General's office, Washington, December 9, 1864. [General orders no. —.] The following dispatch having been received from Lieutenant-General Grant, viz.: Please telegraph orders relieving him (General Thomas) at once, and placing (General) Schofield in command, the President orders: 1. That Major-General J. M. Schofield relieve, at once, Major-General G. H. Thomas, in command of the Department and Army of the Cumberland. 2. General Thomas will turn over to General Schofield all orders and instructions received by him since the battle of Franklin. E. D. Townsend, A. A. G. Nashville, Tenn., December 9, 1864, 1 P. M. Liutenant-General U. S. Grant, City Point. Your dispatch of 8:30 P. M. of the 8th is just received. I have nearly completed my preparations to attack the enemy to-morrow morning, but a terrible storm of freezing rain has come on to-day, which will make it impossible for our men to fight to any advantag