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Thomas Crossing (Texas, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 19
we were all busy in strengthening the several points for the proposed passage of the Chattahoochee, in increasing the number and capacity of the bridges, rearranging the garrisons to our rear, and in bringing forward supplies. On the 15th General Stoneman got back to Powder Springs, and was ordered to replace General Blair at Turner's Ferry, and Blair, with the Seventeenth Corps, was ordered up to Roswell to join McPherson. On the 17th we began the general movement against Atlanta, Thomas crossing the Chattahoochee at Powers's and Paice's, by pontoon-bridges; Schofield moving out toward Cross Keys, and McPherson toward Stone Mountain. We encountered but little opposition except by cavalry. On the 18th all the armies moved on a general right wheel, Thomas to Buckhead, forming line of battle facing Peach-Tree Creek; Schofield was on his left, and McPherson well over toward the railroad between Stone Mountain and Decatur, which he reached at 2 P. M. of that day, about four miles f
Cincinnati (Ohio, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 19
and General Butterfield went to the rear for personal reasons. We were then two hundred and fifty miles in advance of our base, dependent on a single line of railroad for our daily food. We had a bold, determined foe in our immediate front, strongly intrenched, with communication open to his rear for supplies and reenforcements, and every soldier realized that we had plenty of hard fighting ahead, and that all honors had to be fairly earned. General Hooker, moreover, when he got back to Cincinnati, reported (I was told) that we had run up against a rock at Atlanta, and that the country ought to be prepared to hear of disaster from that quarter. Until General Slocum joined (in the latter part of August), the Twentieth Corps was commanded by General A. S. Williams, the senior division commander present. On the 25th of July the army, therefore, stood thus: the Army of the Tennessee (General O. O. Howard commanding) was on the left, pretty much on the same ground it had occupied dur
Atlanta (Georgia, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 19
Chapter 17: Atlanta campaign-battles about Atlanta. July, 1864. As before explained, on the the river below the railroad, to the south of Atlanta, might have been more decisive. But we were he 17th we began the general movement against Atlanta, Thomas crossing the Chattahoochee at Powers' east of Decatur, and there he turned toward Atlanta, breaking up the railroad as he progressed, hhing the command of the Confederate forces in Atlanta, and Hood's order assuming the command. I iments; but, at the same time, the enemy having Atlanta behind him, could choose the time and place oin advance, from which to fight us outside of Atlanta. We then advanced our lines in compact orderd our lines were advanced rapidly close up to Atlanta. For some moments I supposed the enemy inten. About 4 P. M. the expected sally came from Atlanta, directed mainly against Leggett's Hill and aas told) that we had run up against a rock at Atlanta, and that the country ought to be prepared to[40 more...]
Kenesaw (Nebraska, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 19
1864. As before explained, on the 3d of July, by moving McPherson's entire army from the extreme left, at the base of Kenesaw to the right, below Olley's Creek, and stretching it down the Nickajack toward Turner's Ferry of the Chattahoochee, we fus to make a lodgment on his railroad below Marietta, or even to cross the Chattahoochee. Of course, he chose to let go Kenesaw and Marietta, and fall back on an intrenched camp prepared by his orders in advance on the north and west bank of the Choreover, we held the high ground and could overlook his movements, instead of his looking down on us, as was the case at Kenesaw. From a hill just back of Vining's Station I could see the houses in Atlanta, nine miles distant, and the whole intery itself. In my dispatch of July 6th to General Halleck, at Washington, I state that-- Johnston (in his retreat from Kenesaw) has left two breaks in the railroad--one above Marietta and one near Vining's Station. The former is already repaired,
Marietta (Georgia, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 19
t us to make a lodgment on his railroad below Marietta, or even to cross the Chattahoochee. Of course, he chose to let go Kenesaw and Marietta, and fall back on an intrenched camp prepared by his ordon the morning of the 3d of July, I rode into Marietta, just quitted by the rebel rear-guard, and was from the direction of Powder Springs toward Marietta, producing delay and confusion. By night Thonched at Smyrna camp-ground. six miles below Marietta, and there on the next day we celebrated our as left two breaks in the railroad--one above Marietta and one near Vining's Station. The former isr twenty miles, then turned north and came to Marietta on the 22d of July, whence he reported to me. have now accumulated stores at Allatoona and Marietta, both fortified and garrisoned points. Have Captains Steele and Gile to carry the body to Marietta. They reached that place the same night, and On the 22d of July General Rousseau reached Marietta, having returned from his raid on the Alabama
Centreville (Ohio, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 19
ound in the haversack of a prisoner of war captured at the time, and it and its contents were secured by one of McPherson's staff. While we were examining the body inside the house, the battle was progressing outside, and many shots struck the building, which I feared would take fire; so I ordered Captains Steele and Gile to carry the body to Marietta. They reached that place the same night, and, on application, I ordered his personal staff to go on and escort the body to his home, in Clyde, Ohio, where it was received with great honor, and it is now buried in a small cemetery, close by his mother's house, which cemetery is composed in part of the family orchard, in which he used to play when a boy. The foundation is ready laid for the equestrian monument now in progress, under the auspices of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee. The reports that came to me from all parts of the field revealed clearly what was the game of my antagonist, and the ground somewhat favored him.
Macon (Georgia, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 19
to the extreme right of Thomas, so as to reach if possible the railroad below Atlanta, viz., the Macon road. In the morning we found the strong line of parapet, Peach-tree line, to the front of Schoport of the breaking of the railroad toward Augusta. I am now grouping my command to attack the Macon road, and with that view will intrench a strong line of circumvallation with flanks, so as to hato, I ordered all the cavalry to be ready to pass around Atlanta on both flanks, to break up the Macon road at some point below, so as to cut off all supplies to the rebel army inside, and thus to fo at the same time to send all the cavalry around by the right and left to make a lodgment on the Macon road about Jonesboroa. All the orders were given, and the morning of tile 27th was fixed for ission (after having accomplished his orders to break up the railroad at Jonesboroa) to go on to Macon to rescue our prisoners of war known to be held there, and then to push on to Andersonville, whe
Decatur, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 19
from Stone Mountain, and seven miles east of Decatur, and there he turned toward Atlanta, breaking as he progressed, his advance-guard reaching Decatur about night, where he came into communicationth Schofield's troops, which had also reached Decatur. About 10 A. M. of that day (July 18th), wherson was moving astride of the railroad, near Decatur; Schofield along a road leading toward Atlantd then we heard an occasional gun back toward Decatur. I asked him what it meant. We took my pockhe Tennessee; that I would personally look to Decatur and to the safety of his rear, and would reenon of Atlanta. Meantime, Colonel Sprague, in Decatur, had got his teams harnessed up, and safely c as described, one of Schofield's brigades to Decatur, because I knew that the attacking force coulnemy's cavalry got well to our rear, and into Decatur, and for some hours our left flank was compleon-bridge; and to our left rear, at and about Decatur, were the two cavalry divisions of Stoneman, [11 more...]
Washington (United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 19
e existence not only of his own army, but of the Confederacy itself. In my dispatch of July 6th to General Halleck, at Washington, I state that-- Johnston (in his retreat from Kenesaw) has left two breaks in the railroad--one above Marietta and oary division of the Mississippi, in the field, near Atlanta, Georgia, July 25, 1864--8 A. M. Major-General Halleck, Washington, D. C. General: I find it difficult to make prompt report of results, coupled with some data or information, without ocOn the 24th of July I received a dispatch from Inspector-General James A. Hardie, then on duty at the War Department in Washington, to the effect that Generals Osterhaus and Alvan P. Hovey had been appointed major-generals. Both of these had begun t been made public, closing with this language: If the rear be the post of honor, then we had better all change front on Washington. To my amazement, in a few days I received from President Lincoln himself an answer, in which he caught me fairly. I
Vicksburg (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 19
rs, that looked to personal fame and glory as auxiliary and secondary to their political ambition, and not as professional soldiers. As soon as it was known that General Howard had been chosen to command the Army of the Tennessee, General Hooker applied to General Thomas to be relieved of the command of the Twentieth Corps, and General Thomas forwarded his application to me approved and heartily recommended. I at once telegraphed to General Halleck, recommending General Slocum (then at Vicksburg) to be his successor, because Slocum had been displaced from the command of his corps at the time when the Eleventh and Twelfth were united and made the Twentieth. General Hooker was offended because he was not chosen to succeed McPherson; but his chances were not even considered; indeed, I had never been satisfied with him since his affair at the Kulp House, and had been more than once disposed to relieve him of his corps, because of his repeated attempts to interfere with Generals McP
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