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West Point (Georgia, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 21
. About this time we detected signs of activity on the part of the enemy. On the 21st Hood shifted his army across from the Macon road, at Lovejoy's, to the West Point road, at Palmetto Station, and his cavalry appeared on the west side of the Chattahoochee, toward Powder Springs; thus, as it were, stepping aside, and opening defend the roads. Can you expedite the sending to Nashville of the recruits that are in Indiana and Ohio? They could occupy the forts. Hood is now on the West Point road, twenty-four miles south of this, and draws his supplies by that road. Jefferson Davis is there to-day, and superhuman efforts will be made to break my rofor the future to make the movement on Milledgeville, Millen, and Savannah. Hood now rests twenty-four miles south, on the Chattahoochee, with his right on the West Point road. He is removing the iron of the Macon road.. I can whip his infantry, but his cavalry is to be feared. There was great difficulty in obtaining correct
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 21
. General Wheeler had been driven out of Middle Tennessee, escaping south across the Tennessee Riveat of Napoleon from Moscow. He promised his Tennessee and Kentucky soldiers that their feet shouldthe Fourteenth Corps), to meet the danger in Tennessee. General Thomas went up on the 29th, and Morhomas started to-day to drive Forrest out of Tennessee. Our roads should be watched from the rear, Talladega road, why will it not do to leave Tennessee to the forces which Thomas has, and the reseeneral Forrest had made a bold circuit in Middle Tennessee, avoiding all fortified points, and breaking before General Rousseau, he left the State of Tennessee, crossing the river near Florence, Alabalesville. The enemy will not venture toward Tennessee except around by Decatur. I propose to sendo act under General Thomas in the defense of Tennessee. Orders to this effect were made on the 24ty ammunition and stores with which to inyade Tennessee, most of which had to come from Mobile, Selm[12 more...]
Appalachicola (Florida, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 21
ity; send back all my wounded and unserviceable men, and with my effective army move through Georgia, smashing things to the sea. Hood may turn into Tennessee and Kentucky, but I believe he will be forced to follow me. Instead of being on the defensive, I will be on the offensive. Instead of my guessing at what he means to do, he will have to guess at my plans. The difference in war would be fully twenty-five per cent. I can make Savannah, Charleston, or the mouth of the Chattahoochee (Appalachicola). Answer quick, as I know we will not have the telegraph long. I received no answer to this at the time, and the next day went on to Rome, where the news came that Hood had made his appearance at Resaca, and had demanded the surrender of the place, which was commanded by Colonel Weaver, reenforced by Brevet Brigadier-General Raum. General Hood had evidently marched with rapidity up the Chattooga Valley, by Summerville, Lafayette, Ship's Gap, and Snake-Creek Gap, and had with him his
Andersonville, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 21
prisoners, the removal of the people from Atlanta, and the relief of our prisoners of war at Andersonville. Notwithstanding the severity of their imprisonment, some of these men escaped from AndersoAndersonville, and got to me at Atlanta. They described their sad condition: more than twenty-five thousand prisoners confined in a stockade designed for only ten thousand; debarred the privilege of gatherve. On the 22d of September I wrote to General Hood, describing the condition of our men at Andersonville, purposely refraining from casting odium on him or his associates for the treatment of theseshears to cut hair. These articles indicate the plague that most afflicted our prisoners at Andersonville. Mr. Yeatman promptly responded to my request, expressed the articles, but they did not reach Andersonville in time, for the prisoners were soon after removed; these supplies did, however, finally overtake them at Jacksonville, Florida, just before the war closed. On the 28th I receiv
Gaylesville (Alabama, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 21
Schofield did not reach me till the army had got down to Gaylesville, about the 21st of October. It was at Ship's Gap thatinggold by rail, and thence by wagons to our camps about Gaylesville. Meantime, also, Hood had reached the neighborhood of G and Melville Post-Office. I shall pursue him as far as Gaylesville. The enemy will not venture toward Tennessee except aroe to Blue Mountain. On the 21st of October I reached Gaylesville, had my bivouac in an open field back of the village, antrol the movement of his supplies and to watch me. At Gaylesville the pursuit of Hood by the army under my immediate comma aggravated on the march, and when we were encamped near Gaylesville, I visited him in company with Surgeon John Moore, Uniteeing carried on a litter toward Rome; and as I rode from Gaylesville to Rome, I passed him by the way, stopped, and spoke witnley), fifteen thousand; and that corps was ordered from Gaylesville to march to Chattanooga, and thence report for orders to
Johnsonville, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 21
nsported by rail to Pulaski, Tennessee; and General Thomas ordered General Schofield, with the Twenty-third Corps, to Columbia, Tennessee, a place intermediate between Hood (then on the Tennessee River, opposite Florence) and Forrest, opposite Johnsonville. On the 31st of October General Croxton, of the cavalry, re ported that the enemy had crossed the Tennessee River four miles above Florence, and that he had endeavored to stop him, but without success. Still, I was convinced that Hood's ar. He actually did choose such a place, at the old railroad-piers, four miles above Florence, Alabama, which is below Muscle Shoals and above Colbert Shoals. On the 31st of October Forrest made his appearance on the Tennessee River opposite Johnsonville (whence a new railroad led to Nashville), and with his cavalry and field-pieces actually crippled and captured two gunboats with five of our transports, a feat of arms which, I confess, excited my admiration. There is no doubt that the mont
Tuscumbia (Alabama, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 21
eneral Cox), and telegraphed from there to General Thomas at Nashville: It looks to me as though Hood was bound for Tuscumbia. He is now crossing the Coosa River below Rome, looking west. Let me know if you can hold him with your forces now inral R. S. Granger had telegraphed me from Decatur, Alabama: I omitted to mention another reason why Hood will go to Tuscumbia before crossing the Tennessee River. He was evidently out of supplies. His men were all grumbling; the first thing th could not get any thing if he should cross this side of Rogersville. I knew that the country about Decatur and Tuscumbia, Alabama, was bare of provisions, and inferred that General Hood would have to draw his supplies, not only of food, but of st from the direction of Florence. I am now convinced that the greater part of Beauregard's army is near Florence and Tuscumbia, and that you will have at least a clear road before you for several days, and that your success will fully equal your
Bainbridge (Georgia, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 21
Chapter 19: Atlanta and after — pursuit of Hood. September and October, 1864. By the middle of September, matters and things had settled down in Atlanta, so that we felt perfectly at home. The telegraph and railroads were repaired, and we had uninterrupted communication to the rear. The trains arrived with regularity and dispatch, and brought us ample supplies. General Wheeler had been driven out of Middle Tennessee, escaping south across the Tennessee River at Bainbridge; and things looked as though we were to have a period of repose. One day, two citizens, Messrs. Hill and Foster, came into our lines at Decatur, and were sent to my headquarters. They represented themselves as former members of Congress, and particular friends of my brother John Sherman; that Mr. Hill had a son killed in the rebel army as it fell back before us somewhere near Cassville, and they wanted to obtain the body, having learned from a comrade where it was buried. I gave them permission to go by
Gadsden (Alabama, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 21
Mountain, a terminus sixty-five miles southwest of Rome and about fifteen miles southeast of Gadsden, where the rebel army could be supplied from the direction of Montgomery and Mobile, and from wtern-chase. We therefore quietly followed him down the Chattooga Valley to the neighborhood of Gadsden, but halted the main armies near the Coosa River, at the mouth of the Chattooga, drawing our suby wagons to our camps about Gaylesville. Meantime, also, Hood had reached the neighborhood of Gadsden, and drew his supplies from the railroad at Blue Mountain. On the 19th of October I telegrapompetent force. About this time I learned that General Beauregard had reached Hood's army at Gadsden; that, without assuming direct command of that army, he had authority from the Confederate Gove Decatur, Alabama, and at once caused a strong reconnoissance to be made down the Coosa to near Gadsden, which revealed the truth that the enemy was gone, except a small force of cavalry, commanded b
Charleston (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): volume 2, chapter 21
eave Tennessee to the forces which Thomas has, and the reserves soon to come to Nashville, and for me to destroy Atlanta and march across Georgia to Savannah or Charleston, breaking roads and doing irreparable damage? We cannot remain on the defensive. The Selma & Talladega road herein referred to was an unfinished railroad fvinced of the wisdom of my proposition to change the whole tactics of the campaign, to leave Hood to General Thomas, and to march across Georgia for Savannah or Charleston, that I again telegraphed to General Grant: We cannot now remain on the defensive. With twenty-five thousand infantry and the bold cavalry he has, Hood canstead of my guessing at what he means to do, he will have to guess at my plans. The difference in war would be fully twenty-five per cent. I can make Savannah, Charleston, or the mouth of the Chattahoochee (Appalachicola). Answer quick, as I know we will not have the telegraph long. I received no answer to this at the time, a
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