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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 111 1 Browse Search
John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies 86 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 76 0 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 46 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 42 0 Browse Search
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army 33 1 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 17 5 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 16 4 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 5. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 10 2 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 10 0 Browse Search
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Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 35: (search)
ds off his cavalry towards Chattanooga. Sherman moves on the Macon road. defeat of Hardee at Jonesboroa. Hood evacuates Atlanta, and retreats to Lovejoy's Station. Sherman's occupation of Atlanta.an followed quickly with his main army. On the 31st August, Howard, on the right, had reached Jonesboroa, on the Macon road, twenty miles southeast of Atlanta; Thomas, in the centre, was at Couch's;ould then have been in a country destitute of supplies. He determined to make the battle near Jonesboroa, and the corps of Lee and Hardee were moved out to attempt to dislodge the enemy from the entrhan two thou sand men. On the evening of the 1st September, the enemy's columns converged upon Jonesboroa, and Hardee's corps, finding itself about to be flanked and overwhelmed, withdrew during the nt morning Sherman moved south to catch the retreating army, but at Lovejoy's, two miles beyond Jonesboroa, he found Hood strongly entrenched, and, abandoning the pursuit, returned to Atlanta. Sherm