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Macon (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.62
rn Lee's corps to this place. Let it march by two o'clock to-morrow morning. Remain with your corps and the cavalry, and so dispose your force as best to protect Macon and communications in rear. Retain provision and ordnance trains. Please return Reynold's brigade, and, if you think you can do so and still accomplish your objeee's corps to this place. Let it march by two o'clock to-morrow morning. Remain with your corps and the cavalry, and so dispose of your forces as best to protect Macon and communications in rear. Retain provision and ordnance trains. Please return Reynolds' brigade, and, if you think you can do so and still accomplish your objehe railroad bridge over the Chattahoochee. Then, according to the dispatches, one written at 6 P. M. August 31st, and the duplicate later, Hardee was to protect Macon and communications in rear, and Lee's corps and Reynolds' brigade, and all troops which could be spared from Hardee's corps, were to be withdrawn to Atlanta to def
Harrison County (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.62
ventured their lives in your defence. One is Georgia's own son — the hero of many hard-fought fields — your own good and true Hardee [cheers] . . . . ; the other, Beauregard [cheers], goes to share the toils, the fortunes, the misfortunes, if it be so, of the army in Georgia. But I have the statement of President Davis, showing the occasion of his visit to the army, and the real reasons for General Hardee's assignment to a different command. It is as follows: Beauvoir, Harrison county, Mississippi, 29th February, 1880. Colonel T. B. Roy, Selma, Alabama: Dear Sir — Yours of the 26th instant has been this day received, and I will make such reply to your inquiries as is possible from memory and the remnant of correspondence in my possession. It is extremely painful to me that any question should have arisen involving the character and conduct of one so highly esteemed and affectionately remembered by me, as is my deceased friend, the late General Hardee. This is intensi<
Missionary Ridge, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.62
in the long and deadly grapple of Sherman's and Johnston's armies from Dalton to Atlanta — at Savannah, and through the Carolinas — at Bentonville, leading a remnant of the Army of Tennessee in the last charge it ever made — always on duty; always at the post of honor and of danger; always equal to the trusts reposed in him, there is no chapter in the history of the fortunes or the misfortunes of the Western army which does not bear conspicuous witness to his honorable service. Even at Missionary Ridge, in command of the right, he not only held his own, and repulsed all assaults upon him, but charged the enemy in turn, and brought off prisoners and captured colors, as after nightfall, he withdrew, in perfect order, from the position which had covered the retreat of the army. He afterwards declined the command-in-chief of that army under circumstances which, if showing an undue diffidence of his own abilities, showed also exalted patriotism, and an absence of all selfish ambition. An<
Lick Skillet (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.62
Lieutenant-General Lee was instructed to move out with his corps upon the Lick Skillet road, and to take the position most advantageous to prevent or delay the ext On the 28th, the enemy, by extending to the right, had nearly gained the Lick Skillet road. Loring's and Walthall's divisions had been relieved at the trenches, tood the instructions, General Lee, commanding corps, was to move out on the Lick Skillet road, attack the enemy's right flank, and drive him from that road and the oith the divisions named to the point where our own line of works crossed the Lick Skillet road. French's division, when relieved, and one from some other corps, werey loss, to dislodge them, Loring's division was placed in position along the Lick Skillet road, and Walthall directed to withdraw his in rear of Loring's. A short timas possible. He told me that Lee and Stewart were fighting the enemy on the Lick Skillet road, and he wished me to go out there and look after matters. While I was
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.62
ier by nature and by education. His career in the old army was long and in a high degree honorable. In the war between the States his military service covered the entire period of its duration. It extended through every grade — from Colonel to Lieutenant-General. It embraced every command, independent and subordinate, from a brigade to a military department. In the outset he declined the position of Adjutant-General, in favor of active service in the field, and throughout the war, from Missouri to North Carolina, as the trusted lieutenant of Albert Sidney Johnston in Kentucky--in charge of the first line of battle at Shiloh-at Perryville — in command of the victorious left wing at Murfreesboroa — in the long and deadly grapple of Sherman's and Johnston's armies from Dalton to Atlanta — at Savannah, and through the Carolinas — at Bentonville, leading a remnant of the Army of Tennessee in the last charge it ever made — always on duty; always at the post of honor and of danger;
McDonough (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.62
his corps in motion soon after dark; to move south on the McDonough road, across Entrenchment creek at Cobb's mill, and to coe left of the Fifteenth, extending south to and along the McDonough road. General Blair's letter, quoted by General Hood at how, at a glance, that a detour, not along but around the McDonough road, for that was occupied by Blair's corps, and across battle was formed on a road leading from the Atlanta and McDonough road northeastward towards Decatur, and was in rear of thpart of Hardee's had marched out to the road leading from McDonough to Decatur, and had turned so as to strike the left and re extreme left of our army. We were entrenched along the McDonough road running about north and south. . . . . . One diviroad known as the Clay road, and at right angles with the McDonough road, along which my corps was entrenched. Just as thileft of the Fifteenth, extended south over and beyond the McDonough road. General McPherson was killed early in the action b
Davidsonville (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.62
Hardee's corps on the 20th of July, 1864, and I have found no one who ever heard of the alleged warnings against breastworks except in and by this book. Lack of space restricts quotations on this subject to those who from their positions at the time can speak most directly to the point. Colonel D. G. White, who from an early period in the war was a member of General Hardee's staff, and who during all that time was well acquainted with Cleburne, writes as follows: Davidsonville, Anne Arundel county, Maryland, April 6th, 1880. Colonel T. B. Roy, Selma, Alabama: My Dear Sir — Yours of the 21st ultimo received. On the 20th July, 1864, I was ordnance officer on General Hardee's staff. I had been to the office of Colonel Olasowski, Chief of Ordnance, and rejoined General Hardee at or near the time when Cleburne's division got into position to renew the assault. My recollection is that General Hardee and staff were in a small scattered grove near and on the right of the Atlant
Atlanta (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.62
eneral Hood, remaining at his headquarters in Atlanta, should have sent me to take command on a fieesboro, except the one corps left in front of Atlanta, and was now in position to crush in detail tn through the day to secure the evacuation of Atlanta, which had now become a necessity. To add toherman's and Johnston's armies from Dalton to Atlanta — at Savannah, and through the Carolinas — atcing and entrenched along the Decatur side of Atlanta, with the Fifteenth corps extending two divis Cobb's mill about seven or eight miles. From Atlanta to Decatur by Cobb's mill about fourteen or fve, and fought for a time with their backs to Atlanta. They gradually fell back, compressing theirllel to McPherson's entrenchments which faced Atlanta, and which my troops were facing and fightingcations that the enemy may make an attempt on Atlanta to-morrow. Very respectfully, &c., F. A. ge of a soldier: That in the operations about Atlanta, I failed to accomplish all that General Hood[72 more...]<
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.62
s of my corps of the Army of Tennessee, from the opening of the campaign at Dalton to the time of my transfer from that army on the 28th September, 1864. Many of the general officers of that corps were killed, wounded or captured in the recent Tennessee campaign without having made up their reports, and this obstacle, therefore, still exists; but the publication of General Hood's official report makes it a duty to place at once upon record a correction of the misrepresentations which he has man was to be struck in flank and driven down Flint river and the West Point railroad, while the cavalry (which, by the way, except a small body with Hardee at Jonesboroa and another near Rough-and-Ready, was absent on a raid in North Georgia and Tennessee) was to hold in check the army corps of the enemy stationed at the railroad bridge over the Chattahoochee. Then, according to the dispatches, one written at 6 P. M. August 31st, and the duplicate later, Hardee was to protect Macon and commun
New Orleans (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.62
odge's column, and the divisions of Cleburne and Cheatham striking the left flank of the Seventeenth corps, and swinging around through a wide interval or gap, and reaching the extreme right of the Seventeenth corps, and occupying the breastworks constructed by Generals Leggatt and Smith in their advance on Bald Hill, and as far to the right of it as General Leggatt's command extended. Captain G. A. Williams, then Adjutant-General of Govan's brigade of Cleburne's division, now of New Orleans, Louisiana, in reference to a part of the movements and operations of that brigade on the 22d July, says, under date of March 14th, 1880: Our left wing found heavy earthworks covered by an almost impassable abatis, what seemed a curtain thrown back to protect the enemy's extreme left — a precaution taken before our attack could have been known. While the Second and Fifth Arkansas regiments were engaged in the abatis, the right of the brigade, not finding such obstacles, took the works in f
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