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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) 1,463 127 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 1,378 372 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 810 42 Browse Search
John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies 606 8 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 565 25 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 473 17 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 373 5 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 372 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 277 1 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 232 78 Browse Search
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William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 1: Introductory. (search)
is campaigns. The reader turns naturally for explanations of the surprise and attending disgrace at Shiloh; the ill-judged and fatal assault at Chickasaw Bayou; the protest against the move by which Vicksburg was captured; his failure to carry the point assigned him at the battle of Chattanooga; the escape of Johnston from Dalton and Resaca; the terrible mistake of the assault on Kenesaw; the plunging of his army, marching by the flank, into Hood's line of battle under the supposition that Atlanta was evacuated; the escape of the rebel army from Savannah; the careless and inexcusable periling and narrow escape of his own army at Bentonville; and lastly, the political surrender to Johnston at Raleigh: these are points upon which every reader desires light. But instead of gaining it, he finds that for most, the chief aim of the author seems to be to make the darkness more impenetrable. The succeeding chapters will treat, in their order, of the prominent movements and battles which
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 6: (search)
their main features those by which Sherman captured Atlanta. Rosecrans had successively flanked Bragg out of a, chiefly by flanking Johnston, drove him back upon Atlanta. After many assaults, against the earnest advice oboro, leaving Slocum to watch for the evacuation of Atlanta, as Crittenden had watched for Rosecrans at Chattanooga. The movement drew Hood out of Atlanta, and Slocum marched in, as Crittenden had passed into Chattanoognt of occupation, was quite as much scattered below Atlanta, as Rosecrans' had been south of Chattanooga. Suppten: Hood had completely driven Sherman's army into Atlanta! If it be answered that Sherman marched back to hie point upon the railroad, to close all access from Atlanta, also the mountain passes on the west. This being Bragg may hold the passes in the mountain to cover Atlanta, and move his main army through Northern Alabama toA part, at least, of Longstreet's corps is going to Atlanta. It is believed that Bragg, Johnston, and Hardee,
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 8: (search)
eneral Sherman had succeeded General Grant in the command of the Military Division of the Mississippi, General Thomas, who was in command of the Army of the Cumberland at Chattanooga, telegraphed General Grant at Nashville, proposing the following plan for a Spring campaign: I believe if I can commence the campaign with the Fourteenth and Fourth Corps in front, with Howard's corps in reserve, that I can move along the line of the railroad and overcome all opposition as far, at least, as Atlanta. In a subsequent report upon the campaign, dated March 10, 1864, General Thomas thus speaks of this proposition: The above proposition was submitted to General Grant for his approval, and if obtained, it was my intention (having acquired by the reconnoissance of February 23d, 24th, and 25th, a thorough knowledge of the approaches direct upon Dalton, from Ringgold and Cleveland), to have made a strong demonstration against Buzzard Roost, attracting Johnston's whole attention to tha
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 9: (search)
attacking intrenched lines, I at once thought of moving the whole army to the railroad at a point (Fulton) about ten miles below Marietta, or to the Chattahoochee River itself, a movement similar to the one afterward so successfully practiced at Atlanta. All the orders were issued to bring forward supplies enough to fill our wagons, intending to strip the railroad back to Allatoona, and leave that place as our depot, to be covered as well as possible by Garrard's cavalry. General Thomas, as uThomas is well intrenched on a line parallel with the enemy south of Kenesaw. I think that Allatoona and the line of the Etowah are strong enough for me to venture on this move. The movement is substantially down the Sandtown road straight for Atlanta. McPherson drew out his lines during the night of July 2d, leaving Garrard's cavalry, dismounted, occupying his trenches, and moved to the rear of the Army of the Cumberland, stretching down the Nickajack; but Johnston detected the movement,
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 10: (search)
an average of a little over three miles from Atlanta, and north and east of the city. Thomas was parts of the Augusta Railroad to the east of Atlanta, then to withdraw from the left flank and addd our lines were advanced rapidly close up to Atlanta. For some moments I supposed the enemy intenve, and fought for a time with their backs to Atlanta. They gradually fell back, compressing their enemy had retired during the night inside of Atlanta, and we remained master of the situation outss I thought the enemy had resolved to give us Atlanta without further contest. But General Johnsto: three and A half miles East of Atlanta, Georgia, July 22, 1864. Major-General John A. Loor-General Sherman is that they have given up Atlanta, and are retreating in the direction of East and the enemy found in the fortifications of Atlanta, and not Schofield. We hold the railroad to , to pursue the rebels well to the left, past Atlanta even, and on toward East Point. The questi[9 more...]
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 11: (search)
e road and of the country from Chattanooga to Atlanta, including the latter city, send back all my ve in that direction; but, unless I let go of Atlanta, my force will not be equal to his. From here would be great risk in moving far beyond Atlanta, Grant wrote at length, under date of Septembhe subject of Sherman's further movement from Atlanta was under consideration, and three weeks beft destroying Hood. He saw no risk in leaving Atlanta, and no longer seemed to think it necessary fknow if you are willing that I should destroy Atlanta and the railroad. And on this very date ndence began some weeks before the capture of Atlanta, and related to a move beyond upon Montgomerybe better than another. There are three from Atlanta—south-east, south, and south-west—all open, wtion to march through Georgia without holding Atlanta. The above citations from the official recnt from the one hundred and fifty thousand at Atlanta. The line thus taken was to be permanently h[34 more...]<
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 12: (search)
neral Sherman, having seen the enemy he had been fighting throughout the Spring and Summer well on his way toward the North, marched down to the sea at Savannah, and moved against a new enemy there. Of the preparations, and the departure from Atlanta to the sea, General Sherman writes: It was surely a strange event—two hostile armies marching in opposite directions, each in the full belief that it was achieving a final and conclusive result in a great war. * * * * And again: Of course General Thomas saw that on him would likely fall the real blow, and was naturally anxious. And the day of leaving Atlanta he thus records what he thought the general verdict would be: There was a devil-may-care feeling pervading officers and men that made me feel the full load of responsibility, for success would be accepted as a matter of course, whereas, should we fail, this march would be adjudged the wild adventure of a crazy fool. It will be well in the outset to look
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 14: (search)
urging me to push the enemy, the department remembers that General Sherman took with him the complete organization of the Military Division of the Mississippi, well equipped in every respect, as regards ammunition, supplies, and trasportation, leaving me only two corps, partially stripped of their transportation to accommodate the force taken with him, to oppose the advance into Tennessee of that army which had resisted the advance of the army of the Military Division of the Mississippi on Atlanta, from the commencement of the campaign till its close, and which is now, in addition, aided by Forrest's cavalry. Although my progress may appear slow, I feel assured that Hood's army can be driven from Tennessee, and eventually driven to the wall by the force under my command. But too much must not be expected of troops which have to be reorganized, especially when they have the task of destroying a force, in a Winter's campaign, which was able to make an obstinate resistance to twice it
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 16: (search)
battle of Bentonville the careless advance of an Army. The battle of Bentonville affords one of the most marked examples of carelessness in the management of a great army which can be found in the history of the war. Unlike the march from Atlanta to the sea, that from Savannah northward through the Carolinas originated with General Sherman. And in all respects it was a wonderful movement. The first instructions of General Grant contemplated an entrenched camp near Savannah, and the tnnah, and then march northward by land. The reasons he gave Grant were such as to induce the latter to accept Sherman's plan as better than his own. The campaign from Savannah was in every way more difficult and hazardous than the march from Atlanta. In coming down to the sea there had been no veteran enemy in front, nor indeed, any force worthy of mention, nor had there been important garrisons on either flank to threaten or annoy. The roads were in the general direction of the larger st
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 17: (search)
er of Johnston's army of which he then notified me, and recalled a part of the troops which he had directed me to send to Danville and Greensboro. 9th. There is but one other point in General Sherman's official complaint that I deem it necessary to notice. I refer to the suggestion made to you in regard to orders to Generals Thomas and Wilson for preventing the escape of Davis and his Cabinet. Although these officers were under the nominal command of General Sherman, yet after he left Atlanta, they received their instructions and orders from yourself and General Grant direct, not through General Sherman. This is recognized and provided for by the regulations of the War Department and has been practised for years. I have transmitted hundreds of orders in this way, and General Sherman was cognizant of the fact. The movements of Generals Thomas, Stoneman, Wilson, A. J. Smith, etc., while within General Sherman's general command, have been directed in this way for more than six
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