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Hoskin (search for this): chapter 11.107
ed it on our guns on the mountain. Yesterday we had it all our own way-to-day they are repaying us, and the cannonade is fast and furious. Last night there was fighting on our left, but so different are the reports received that I cannot get at the truth. June 24. There has been but little fighting during the day. June 25. The everlasting pop, pop, on the skirmish line is all that breaks the stillness of the morning. Went early to the left of my line; could not ride in rear of Hoskin's Battery, on account of the trees and limbs felled by the shells. From top of the mountain the vast panorama is ever changing. There are now large trains to the left of Lost Mountain and at Big Shanty, and wagons are moving to and fro every where. Encampments of hospitals, quartermasters, commissaries, cavalry and infantry whiten the plain here and there as far as the eye can reach. Our side of the line looks narrow, poor and life-less, with but little canvas in spots that contrasts wit
Yanks (search for this): chapter 11.107
ain at any one place, it is pretty severe, but owing to our height, nearly harmless. Thousand of their parrot-shells pass high over the mountain, and exploding at a great elevation, the after-part of the shell is arrested in its flight, and falling perpendicularly, comes into camp, and they have injured our tents. Last night I heard a peculiar thug on my tent, and a rattle of tin pans, and this morning my negro boy cook put his head into my tent and said: See here, Master Sam, them ‘fernal Yanks done shot my pans last night. What am I going to do ‘bout it? A rifle ball coming over the mountain had fallen from a great height, and, perforating the pans, had entered the ground. June 26. This is Sunday, and all is comparatively still in the lines up to this, 4 P. M., excepting one artillery duel; but now cannon are heard on our extreme left. We have not opened our batteries here, and we have not been annoyed much. Enemy moving to our left. The day has been very warm. June
Scofield (search for this): chapter 11.107
I.--Major-General Thomas will assault the enemy at any point near his center, to be selected by himself, and will make any changes in his troops necessary by night, so as not to attract the attention of the enemy. II.--Major-General McPherson will feign by a movement of his cavalry and one division of his infantry on his extreme left, approaching Marietta from the north, and using his artillery freely, but will make his real attack at a point south and west of Kennesaw. III.--Major-General Scofield will feel to his extreme right, and threaten that flank of the enemy with artillery and display, but attack some one point of the enemy's line as near the Marietta and Powder Spring road as he can with prospect of success. * * * * V.--Each attacking column will endeavor to break a single point of the enemy's line, and make a secure lodgment beyond, and be prepared for following it up towards Marietta and the railroad in case of success. By order of Major-General W. T. Sherman.
Ector (search for this): chapter 11.107
d let the enemy in behind Cockrell's skirmishers, and enabled them to gain the Latimer house, four hundred yards distant. Ector's skirmishers also came in. Enemy soon advanced in line of battle, and with batteries opened on the salient an enfiladingfrom the guns on Kennesaw. Enemy replied furiously, and for an hour the firing was incessant. Received an order to hold Ector's brigade in reserve. In the afternoon considerable firing, and all the chests of one of my caissons were blown up by a er came to me about 9 o'clock and said General Cockrell wanted assistance, that his line had been attacked in force. General Ector was at once directed to send two regiments to report to him. Soon again a second courier came and reported the assault on the left of my line. I went immediately with the remainder of Ector's brigade to Cockrell, but on joining him found the Federal forces had been repulsed. The assaulting column had struck Cockrell's works near the centre, recoiled under the fi
George Thomas (search for this): chapter 11.107
position, been selected for assault by General McPherson, as that of Cheatham's had been by General Thomas. General McPherson distinguished himself under Grant, was conspicuous at the siege of Vics of General Sherman will explain the attack clearly, and the telegrams to General Schofield and Thomas the result of the attack: Headquarters Military division of the Mississippi in the fieldn Signal Hill, and will have telegraph communication with all the army commanders. I.--Major-General Thomas will assault the enemy at any point near his center, to be selected by himself, and will e Mississippi in the field, June 27, 1864, 11:45 A. M.--General Schofield: Neither McPherson nor Thomas have succeeded in breaking through, but each has made substantial progress at some cost. Push yMilitary division of the Mississippi in the field near Kennesaw, June 27, 1864, 11:45 A. M.--General Thomas: McPherson's column marched near the top of the hill, through very tangled brush, but was re
Canty (search for this): chapter 11.107
th of Kennesaw Mountain. The general direction of this line, from our left, was north of east, and it was confronted in its entire length by the Federal army under General W. T. Sherman. Johnston's command numbered 48,800, and that of Sherman, by official reports, 112,800. The better to explain movements previous to assuming position on Kennesaw Mountain, I will make some extracts from my diary. June 14, 1864. This morning, by written orders, General Loring moved to the right; General Canty from the left to the centre, and I extended to the right. Rode over to see General Polk; asked him when General Johnston and he went to the right to come down my line; said they probably would. * * * * At 12 M. heard that General Polk was dead; sent an officer to his headquarters to inquire, and learned the report too true. Went to headquarters at 2.30 P. M., but his remains had just left for Marietta. He had accompanied General Johnston to the left and gone to Pine Mountain, and whil
Leggett (search for this): chapter 11.107
p me advised. W. T. Sherman, Major-General Commanding. Headquarters Military division of the Mississippi in the field near Kennesaw, June 27, 1864, 11:45 A. M.--General Thomas: McPherson's column marched near the top of the hill, through very tangled brush, but was repulsed. It is found impossible to deploy, but they hold their ground. I wish you to study well the positions, and if it be possible, break through the lines to do it; it is easier now than it will be hereafter. I hear Leggett's guns well behind the mountain. W. T. Sherman, Major-General Commanding. As nothing decisive was obtained by Sherman's attack, the firing slackened, except on the skirmish line. After dark the enemy withdrew to their main trenches, the roar of guns died gradually away, and the morning of the 28th dawned on both armies in their former positions. The battle of Kennesaw, then, was a display of force and advance of troops by the enemy on the entire length of our line, that opened a furi
B. F. Cheatham (search for this): chapter 11.107
l Hood's left; Walker, of Hardee's corps, was on my left; then in order came Bate, Cleburne and Cheatham. Kennesaw Mountain is about four miles northwest of Marietta. It is over two-and-a-half migh the rifts of smoke, or, as it was wafted aside by the wind, we could see the assault made on Cheatham, and there the struggle was hard, and there it lasted longest. So many guns were trained on thrned my line had, from its position, been selected for assault by General McPherson, as that of Cheatham's had been by General Thomas. General McPherson distinguished himself under Grant, was conspmall in numbers, considering the character of the troops they knew they would encounter. General Cheatham's loss was one hundred and ninety-five (195); mine (French's) one hundred and eighty-six (1tire length of our line, that opened a furious fire of artillery and musketry, under cover of which two grand attacks were made by assaulting columns — the one on my line and the other on Cheatham's
W. T. Sherman (search for this): chapter 11.107
s confronted in its entire length by the Federal army under General W. T. Sherman. Johnston's command numbered 48,800, and that of Sherman, Sherman, by official reports, 112,800. The better to explain movements previous to assuming position on Kennesaw Mountain, I will make some extractmated from three to eight thousand. The following orders of General Sherman will explain the attack clearly, and the telegrams to General etta and the railroad in case of success. By order of Major-General W. T. Sherman. L. M. Dayton, Aid-de-Camp. Headquarters Military cost. Push your operations on the flank, and keep me advised. W. T. Sherman, Major-General Commanding. Headquarters Military division be hereafter. I hear Leggett's guns well behind the mountain. W. T. Sherman, Major-General Commanding. As nothing decisive was obtained by Sherman's attack, the firing slackened, except on the skirmish line. After dark the enemy withdrew to their main trenches, the roar of g
Joseph E. Johnston (search for this): chapter 11.107
before the Louisville Branch of the Southern Historical Society:] On the 14th of June, 1864, the army under General Joseph E. Johnston occupied a line of hastily-constructed works of several miles in length, extending from near Lost Mountain to aur left, was north of east, and it was confronted in its entire length by the Federal army under General W. T. Sherman. Johnston's command numbered 48,800, and that of Sherman, by official reports, 112,800. The better to explain movements previouneral Canty from the left to the centre, and I extended to the right. Rode over to see General Polk; asked him when General Johnston and he went to the right to come down my line; said they probably would. * * * * At 12 M. heard that General Polk waeport too true. Went to headquarters at 2.30 P. M., but his remains had just left for Marietta. He had accompanied General Johnston to the left and gone to Pine Mountain, and while there the party was fired on by one of the Federal batteries, and t
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