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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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The Daily Dispatch: August 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
y the supposition that Grant had indulged rather too freely in old Bourbon on Sunday and became vindictive under its effects. From Georgia. The news from Atlanta relates chiefly to the operations of a raiding party, under Kilpatrick's, sent out by Sherman to destroy our railway communications. There is a wide discrepancy anta and West Point railroad, nineteen miles from the former place. Lovejoy's, on the Macon railroad, is twenty- nine miles, and Jonesboro' twenty-two miles from Atlanta. Between these two points the raiders seem to have been routed and driven off, though from the small number of killed and wounded on either side, we infer that tundoubtedly operating successfully in the enemy's rear, though the accounts of his movements are vague and uncertain; as the Yankee papers say, they are "all in a muddle. " We hope, however, soon to have a clear and concise statement of his doings, such as will make Sherman wish he had never sat himself down in front of Atlanta.
The Daily Dispatch: August 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], We are (search)
From Georgia. Atlanta, August 19. --There was heavy artillery firing on the centre last night. This morning the enemy's batteries in front of the city opened a heavy fire, which exceeded anything yet witnessed. A forty-two pounder Sawyer shell exploded in a house, killing Captain Jarson, of the Fourteenth Texas cavalry. Two children and several ladies were wounded. No further damage was done. Kilpatrick is moving after Wheeler. As is supposed, he turned towards the Atlanta ano thirty thousand. There are reports from the enemy's rear to the effect that Wheeler had burned the bridges at Etowah and Resaca and Dalton, between the up tunnel.--[The enemy, then, is undoubtedly on half ration.] [Second Dispatch.] Atlanta, August 22. --Kilpatrick's raid, composed of twenty-five hundred men, crossed the Chattahoochee at Campbelton and struck the road at Fairburn at 3 o'clock on Friday morning, destroying it for six miles. The raiders then crossed over to the