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July 8th, 1887 AD (search for this): chapter 5.40
them every regimental commander engaged. Similarly, but with easier approaches than ours, Schofield kept Johnston's attention at the east and north. Such was the demonstration, while McPherson was making his long detour through Villanow, Snake Creek Part of the battle-field of Resaca, from a War-time photograph Gap, and out into Sugar Valley. He found the gap unoccupied; and so, with Kilpatrick's small cavalry detachment ahead, Lieutenant James Oates wrote to the editors on July 8th, 1887, from Cincinnati, Ark., as follows: General Howard is in error in the above statement. On May 1st the 9th Illinois Mounted Infantry broke camp at Decatur, Alabama, to take part in the Atlanta campaign. On the afternoon of May 8th the regiment came up with General McPherson at Villanow. Lieutenant-Colonel J. J. Phillips, who was in command, received orders to take the advance of the Army of the Tennessee, and did so at once, Company K, Lieutenant James Oates in command, taking the
September 1st (search for this): chapter 5.40
il, with perhaps half of his command, to hold Jonesboro‘. My Confederate classmate, S. D. Lee, who had had the immediate assault at Ezra Church, here appeared again, commanding Cheatham's corps. At 3 P. M. on the 31st the Confederates came on with the usual vigor, but were met by Logan and Ransom, and thoroughly repulsed. Hood now abandoned Atlanta, and united with Hardee in the vicinity of Jonesboro‘, near Love-joy's Station. Thomas, joining my left flank, fought mainly the battle of September 1st. During the rest that followed, Blair and Logan went home Major-General John M. Corse, who held the Fort at Allatoona. From a photograph. on leave of absence; the field-force of the Army of the Tennessee was consolidated into two corps, Osterhaus temporarily commanding the Fifteenth, and Ransom the Seventeenth. Thomas went to Chattanooga to defend the communications with Sherman's army. Wagner's division was sent to Chattanooga, and Corse's division to Rome. Colonel John E. Tourt
May 12th (search for this): chapter 5.40
justified by his orders. Our commander, believing that Johnston would now speedily fall back to Resaca, at once changed his purpose. Leaving me at Rocky Face with the Fourth Corps and Stoneman's small division of cavalry to hold our line of supply, Sherman pressed after McPherson the armies of Thomas and Schofield. But Johnston was not in a hurry. He terrified me for two days by his tentative movements, till our skirmishing amounted at times almost to a battle. But the night of the 12th of May he made off in one of his clean retreats. At dawn of the 13th the formidable Buzzard-Roost Gap was open and safe, and our men passed through. Stoneman rushed into the village of Dalton from the north, and the Fourth Corps, eager and rapid, kept close to the chasing cavalry. Not far south of Dalton we came upon a bothersome Confederate rear-guard, which made our marching all that long day slow and spasmodic, yet before dark my command had skirted the eastern slope of Taylor's Ridge for
October 5th, 1864 AD (search for this): chapter 5.40
lf-past 8 A. M., I received by flag of truce, which came from the north on the Cartersville road, the following summons to surrender: around Allatoona, October 5th, 1864. commanding officer United State forces, Allatoona. Sir: I have placed the forces under my command in such positions that you are surrounded, and to avrces, Confederate States. To which I made the following reply: headquarters, Fourth division, Fifteenth Army Corps, Allatoona, Georgia, 8:30 A. M., October 5th, 1864. Major-General S. G. French, Confederate States Army, etc.: Your comnlnunication demanding surrender of my command I acknowledge receipt of, and respectfuivision. Sherman was coming, Allatoona pass, looking North--Corse's Fort on the left (see P. 344). from a War-time photograph. The battle of Allatoona, October 5, 1864. from the Mountain campaigns in Georgia, or War scenes on the W. & A., published by the Western & Atlantic R. R. Co. and French, several times repulsed wi
May 14th (search for this): chapter 5.40
which in the distance descend to the Oostenaula River. The railway and wagon bridges mentioned in the notes on p. 266 are near the railway station. Reproduced from the memoirs of General William T. Sherman (New York: D. Appleton & Co.) by permission of author and Publishers. Confederates had thrown up the usual intrenchments, and put out one or two small advanced forts with cannon, the position was as strong as Marye's Heights had been against direct attack. We spent a part of the 14th of May creeping up among the bushes, rocks, and ravines. Early that morning, while this was going on, Sherman, who had worked all night, was sitting on a log, with his back against a tree, fast asleep. Some men marching by saw him, and one fellow ended a slurring remark by: A pretty way we are commanded! Sherman, awakened by the noise, heard the last words. Stop, my man, he cried; while you were sleeping, last night, Brevet Brigadier-General Benjamin Harrison. From a photograph. I was
October 6th, 1864 AD (search for this): chapter 5.40
cording to orders, but about 2 P. M. I noticed with satisfaction that the smoke of battle about Allatoona grew less and less, and ceased altogether about 4 P. M. For a time I attributed this result to the effect of General Cox's march, but later in the afternoon the signal-flag announced the welcome tidings that the attack had been fairly repulsed, but that General Corse was wounded. The next day my aide, Colonel Dayton, received this characteristic dispatch: Allatoona, Georgia, October 6th, 1864, 2 P. M. Captain L. M. Dayton, Aide-de-Camp: I am short a cheek-bone and an ear, but am able to whip all h----l yet! My losses are very heavy. A force moving from Stilesboro' to Kingston gives me some anxiety. Tell me where Sherman is. John M. Corse, Brigadier-General. Inasmuch as the enemy had retreated south-west, and would probably next appear at Rolle, I answered General Corse with orders to get back to Rome with his troops as quickly as possible. . . . I esteemed thi
October 7th, 1864 AD (search for this): chapter 5.40
-l yet! My losses are very heavy. A force moving from Stilesboro' to Kingston gives me some anxiety. Tell me where Sherman is. John M. Corse, Brigadier-General. Inasmuch as the enemy had retreated south-west, and would probably next appear at Rolle, I answered General Corse with orders to get back to Rome with his troops as quickly as possible. . . . I esteemed this defense of Allatoona so handsome and important that I made it the subject of a general order, viz., No. 86, of October 7th, 1864: The general commanding avails himself of the opportunity, in the handsome defense made at Allatoona, to illustrate the most important principle in war, that fortified posts should be defended to the last, regardless of the relative numbers of the party attacking and attacked. . . . The thanks of this army are due and are hereby accorded to General Corse, Colonel Tourtellotte, Colonel Rowett, officers, and men, for their determined and gallant defense of Allatoona, and it is ma
May 17th (search for this): chapter 5.40
ar-guard. It was, in fact, a running skirmish, that lasted till evening, at the close of which we encamped for the night near the enemy's empty works at Calhoun. Meanwhile McPherson had been marching on parallel roads to the right toward Rome, Georgia, Jefferson C. Davis's division from Thomas's army sweeping farther still to the right, and Schofield, accompanied by Hooker, to the left toward Cassville. Our enemy, between these columns with his entire force, made a brief stand on the 17th of May at Adairsville, and fortified. About 4 P. M. Newton and Wood, of my corps, Wood on the right, found the resistance constantly increasing as they advanced, till Newton's skirmishers, going at double-time through clumps of trees, awakened a heavy opposing fire. A little after this, while I was watching the developments from a high point, Sherman with his staff and escort joined me. Our showy group immediately drew upon it the fire of a battery, shells bursting over our heads with indescri
May 21st (search for this): chapter 5.40
tecting the selected crossing. This was his final halt north of that river, so difficult with its mountain banks. Johnston remained here to obstruct and dispute our way one day only, for Schofield and Hooker had penetrated the forests eastward of him so far that Hood, still on Johnston's right, insisted that the Yankees were already beyond him and in force. Upon this report, about which there has since been much controversy, Johnston ordered a prompt withdrawal. The morning of the 21st of May, bright and clear, showed us a country picturesque Major-General Jacob D. Cox. From a photograph. in its natural features, with farm and woodland as quiet and peaceful as if there had been no war. So Sherman, taking up his headquarters at Kingston, a little hamlet on the railway, gave his armies three days rest. One of these days was Sunday. My friend E. P. Smith, of the Christian Commission, afterward Commissioner of Indian Affairs, was ringing the church bell at Kingston, when S
August 30th (search for this): chapter 5.40
this time clung to the pivot. My command described an are of 25 miles radius aiming at Jonesboro‘, while Thomas followed the middle course. Both southern railways were to be seized, and the stations and road destroyed. Preceded by Kilpatrick, we made the march rapidly enough, considering the endless plague of the enemy's horse artillery supported by Wheeler's cavalry, and the time it took us to break up the West Point railroad. At Renfro Place we were to encamp on the night of the 30th of August. Finding no water there, and also hoping to secure the Flint River Bridge, six miles ahead, I called to Kilpatrick for a squadron. He sent me a most energetic young man, Captain Estes, and the horsemen needed. I asked Estes if he could keep the enemy in motion. He gave a sanguine reply, and galloped off at the head of his men. Wheeler's rear-guard was surprised, and hurried toward the river. Hazen's infantry followed, forgetting their fatigue in the excitement of pursuit. We reache
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