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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), Report of Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, U. S. Army, commanding armies of the United States, of operations march, 1864-May, 1865. (search)
trongly intrenched, covering and defending Richmond, the rebel capital, against the Army of the Potomac. The army under Johnston occupied a strongly intrenched position at Dalton, Ga., covering and defending Atlanta, Ga., a place of great importancenies, and the Department of Arkansas, west of the Mississippi, had the immediate command of the armies operating against Johnston. Maj. Gen. George G. Meade had the immediate command of the Army of the Potomac, from where I exercised general supehe movements of all our armies. General Sherman was instructed See Vol. XXXII, Part III, p. 245. to move against Johnston's army, to break it up, and to go into the interior of the enemy's country as far as he could, inflicting all the damage, he should at least detain as large a force there as possible. In co-operation with the main movements against Lee and Johnston, I was desirous of using all other troops necessarily kept in departments remote from the fields of immediate operations