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8th (search for this): chapter 5
g defensive position near Snake Creek, and stand ready to fall on the enemy's flank when he retreated, as I judged he would. During the movement General Thomas was to make a strong feint of attack in front, while General Schofield pressed down from the north. Generals Thomas moved from Ringgold on the 7th, occupying Tunnel Hill, facing the Buzzard Roost Gap, meeting with little opposition, and pushing the enemy's cavalry well through the gap. General McPherson reached Snake Creek Gap on the 8th, completely surprising a brigade of cavalry which was coming to watch and hold it, and on the 9th General Schofield pushed down close on Dalton from the north, while General Thomas renewed his demonstration against Buzzard Roost and Rocky Face Ridge, pushing it almost to a battle. One division (General Newton's) of the Fourth Corps (General Howard's) carried the ridge, and turning south toward Dalton found the crest too narrow and too well protected by rock epaulements to enable him to reach
July 2nd (search for this): chapter 5
der the influence of a mistake or failure, and accordingly General Schofield was working strong on the enemy's left, and on the 1st of July I ordered General McPherson to be relieved by General Garrard's cavalry in front of Kenesaw, and rapidly to throw his whole army by the right down to and threaten Nickajack Creek and Turner's Ferry, across the Chattahoochee, and I also pushed General Stoneman's cavalry to the river below Turner's. General McPherson commenced his movement the night of July 2, and the effect was instantaneous. The next morning Kenesaw was abandoned, and with the first dawn of day I saw our skirmishers appear on the mountain top. General Thomas' whole line was then moved forward to the railroad and turned south in pursuit toward the Chattahoochee. In person I entered Marietta at 8.30 in the morning, just as the enemy's cavalry vacated the place. General Logan's corps, of General McPherson's army, which had not moved far, was ordered back into Marietta by the ma
July (search for this): chapter 5
All of which is respectfully submitted. W. T. Sherman, Major-General, Commanding. Maj. Gen. H. W. Halleck, Chief of Staff, Washington, D. C. Casualties in army in the field, Military Division of the Mississippi, during May, June, July, and August, 1864. Zzz To which should be added the casualties for September 1 to 15 in Army of the Cumberland, 2,567, making aggregate, 37,081. Reports of Armies of the Tennessee and Ohio include the whole campaign. W. T. Sherman, Major-General, U. S. Army, Commanding. Hdqrs. Military Division of the Mississippi, In the Field, Atlanta, Ga., September 15, 1864. Prisoners and deserters taken by army in the field, Military Division of the Mississippi, during May, June, July, and August, 1864. Zzz To which add the prisoners and deserters in the Army of the Cumberland September 1 to 20, 3,065, making a total aggregate of 12,983. Reports from Armies of the Tennessee and Ohio include the whole campaign. W. T.
7th (search for this): chapter 5
fall on the enemy's flank when he retreated, as I judged he would. During the movement General Thomas was to make a strong feint of attack in front, while General Schofield pressed down from the north. Generals Thomas moved from Ringgold on the 7th, occupying Tunnel Hill, facing the Buzzard Roost Gap, meeting with little opposition, and pushing the enemy's cavalry well through the gap. General McPherson reached Snake Creek Gap on the 8th, completely surprising a brigade of cavalry which was sue our enemy in that wooded country with a view to his capture, I gave orders on the 4th for the army to prepare to move back slowly to Atlanta. On the 5th we drew back to the vicinity of Jonesborough, five miles, where we remained a day. On the 7th we moved to Rough and Ready, seven miles, and the next day to the camps selected, viz, the Army of the Cumberland grouped around about Atlanta, the Army of the Tennessee about East Point, and that of the Ohio at Decatur, where the men now occupy c
5th (search for this): chapter 5
growing region of Georgia and all its most valuable iron-works and foundries. I send you copies of my field orders See Part IV. which will give pretty good idea of the strategy on our part, and send you a file of Atlanta papers upl to the 5th instant. I cannot now undertake to describe our various conflicts, but will do so at a later period. Our losses and detachments are fully replaced by veteran regiments and detachments that have joined, and the two good old divisions of the Seventt against the railroad was therefore already reached and concluded, and as it was idle to pursue our enemy in that wooded country with a view to his capture, I gave orders on the 4th for the army to prepare to move back slowly to Atlanta. On the 5th we drew back to the vicinity of Jonesborough, five miles, where we remained a day. On the 7th we moved to Rough and Ready, seven miles, and the next day to the camps selected, viz, the Army of the Cumberland grouped around about Atlanta, the Army
May (search for this): chapter 5
y and hold. All of which is respectfully submitted. W. T. Sherman, Major-General, Commanding. Maj. Gen. H. W. Halleck, Chief of Staff, Washington, D. C. Casualties in army in the field, Military Division of the Mississippi, during May, June, July, and August, 1864. Zzz To which should be added the casualties for September 1 to 15 in Army of the Cumberland, 2,567, making aggregate, 37,081. Reports of Armies of the Tennessee and Ohio include the whole campaign. W. T. Sherman, Major-General, U. S. Army, Commanding. Hdqrs. Military Division of the Mississippi, In the Field, Atlanta, Ga., September 15, 1864. Prisoners and deserters taken by army in the field, Military Division of the Mississippi, during May, June, July, and August, 1864. Zzz To which add the prisoners and deserters in the Army of the Cumberland September 1 to 20, 3,065, making a total aggregate of 12,983. Reports from Armies of the Tennessee and Ohio include the whole campa
April (search for this): chapter 5
perfect justification of my course. At once the store-houses at Chattanooga began to fill so that by the 1st of May a-very respectable quantity of food and forage had been accumulated there, and from. that day to this stores have been brought forward in wonderful abundance, with a surplus that has enabled me to feed the army well during the whole period of time, although the enemy has succeeded more than once in breaking our road for many miles at different points. During the month of April I received from Lieutenant-General Grant a map, with a letter of instructions, See foot-note Vol. XXXII, Part III, p. 261. which is now at Nashville, but a copy will be procured and made a part of this report. Subsequently I received from him notice that he would move from his camp about Culpeper, Va., on the 5th of May, and he wanted me to do the same from Chattanooga. See Vol. XXXII, Part III, p. 521 My troops were still dispersed, and the cavalry, so necessary to our success, was yet
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Special field orders, No. 62. Hdqrs. Mil. Div. Of the Miss., In the Field, near Lovejoy's, September 3, 1864. The general commanding announces with great pleasure that he has official information that our troops under Major-General Slocum occupied Atlanta yesterday at 11 a. m., the enemy having evacuated the night before, destroyed vast magazines of stores, and blowing up, among other things, eighty car-loads of ammunition, which accounts for the sounds heard by us on the night of the 1st instant. Our present task is, therefore, well done, and all work of destruction on the railroad will cease. By order of Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman: L. M. Dayton, Aide-de-Camp. War Department, September 5, 1864-10.25 p. m. Major-General Sherman: I have the pleasure of transmitting to you the following orders, which were made Saturday by the President on receipt of the news of the capture of Atlanta: Executive Mansion, September 3, 1864. The national thanks are tendered by the Preside
June 27th (search for this): chapter 5
of retreat, and then by turning on either part it could be overwhelmed and destroyed. Therefore, on the 24th of June, I ordered that an assault should be made at two points south of Kenesaw on the 27th, giving three days notice for preparation and reconnaissance, one to be made iear Little Kenesaw by General McPherson's troops, and the other about a mile farther south by General Thomas' troops. The hour was fixed and all the details given jn Field Orders, No. 28, of June 24. On the 27th of June the two assaults were made at the time and in the manner prescribed and both failed, costing us many valuable lives, among them those of Generals Harker and. McCook, Colonel Rice and others badly wounded, our aggregate loss being nearly 3,000, while we inflicted comparatively little loss to the enemy, who lay behind his well-formed breast-works. Failure as it was, and for which I assume the entire responsibility, I yet claim it produced good fruits, as it demonstrated to General Johnston
June 24th (search for this): chapter 5
boldly and rapidly two and one-half miles, it would reach the railroad below Marietta, cut off the enemy's right and center from its line of retreat, and then by turning on either part it could be overwhelmed and destroyed. Therefore, on the 24th of June, I ordered that an assault should be made at two points south of Kenesaw on the 27th, giving three days notice for preparation and reconnaissance, one to be made iear Little Kenesaw by General McPherson's troops, and the other about a mile farther south by General Thomas' troops. The hour was fixed and all the details given jn Field Orders, No. 28, of June 24. On the 27th of June the two assaults were made at the time and in the manner prescribed and both failed, costing us many valuable lives, among them those of Generals Harker and. McCook, Colonel Rice and others badly wounded, our aggregate loss being nearly 3,000, while we inflicted comparatively little loss to the enemy, who lay behind his well-formed breast-works. Fail
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