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Resaca (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
at first to add only the Fourth Corps (General Stanley), fifteen thousand, and that corps was ordered from Gaylesville to march to Chattanooga and thence to report for orders to General Thomas; but subsequently, on the 30th of October, at Rome, Georgia, learning from General Thomas that the new troops promised by General Grant were coming forward very slowly, I concluded to further reinforce him by General Schofield's corps (Twenty-third), twelve thousand, which corps accordingly marched for Resaca, and there took the cars for Chattanooga. I then knew that General Thomas would have an ample force with which to encounter General Hood any where in the open field, besides garrisons to secure the railroad to his rear, and as far forward as Chattanooga. * * * * On the 1st of November I telegraphed very fully to General Grant [General Sherman does not give this dispatch], and on the 2d of November received (at Rome) this dispatch: City Point, November 1, 1864, 6 P. M. Major-General Sh
Brunswick, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
Dalton. Destroy in such case all of military value in Atlanta. As early as October 13th, two weeks before General Sherman claims that he finally decided on this march, General Grant had ordered cooperating forces to proceed to the coast below Savannah and move inland against the Gulf Railroad. This appears in the following from Halleck to Grant, dated Washington, October 22d: I had prepared instructions to General Canby to move all available forces in Mobile Bay and elsewhere to Brunswick and up the Savannah and Gulf Railroad, as directed by you on the 13th, but on learning that Sherman's operations were uncertain I withheld the order. October 19th Sherman telegraphed Thomas: * * * * I propose with the Armies of Ohio, Tennessee, and two corps of this, to sally forth and make a hole in Georgia and Alabama that will be hard to mend. I will, probably, about November 1st, break up the railroads and bridges, destroy Atlanta, and make a break for Mobile, Savannah, or Ch
Atlanta (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
e road and of the country from Chattanooga to Atlanta, including the latter city, send back all my ve in that direction; but, unless I let go of Atlanta, my force will not be equal to his. From here would be great risk in moving far beyond Atlanta, Grant wrote at length, under date of Septembhe subject of Sherman's further movement from Atlanta was under consideration, and three weeks beft destroying Hood. He saw no risk in leaving Atlanta, and no longer seemed to think it necessary fknow if you are willing that I should destroy Atlanta and the railroad. And on this very date ndence began some weeks before the capture of Atlanta, and related to a move beyond upon Montgomerybe better than another. There are three from Atlanta—south-east, south, and south-west—all open, wtion to march through Georgia without holding Atlanta. The above citations from the official recnt from the one hundred and fifty thousand at Atlanta. The line thus taken was to be permanently h[34 more...]<
Meridian (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
r a considerable length of time. Mobile would be a second base. The destruction which Sherman will do the roads around Meridian will be of material importance to us in preventing the enemy from drawing supplies and in clearing that section of all lplan for the Atanta and Gulf campaign to General Halleck, and while General Sherman was on the Mississippi preparing his Meridian campaign, General Thomas, who was then in command at Chattanooga, was made acquainted with General Grant's design by the Grant, Major-General. By the last of February, General Sherman having been meantime in the depths of his raid to Meridian, the preparations for the campaign thus marked out by General Grant had progressed so far that General Thomas was sendinal Grant having been made Lieutenant General, and ordered to Washington, summoned General Sherman, who had returned from Meridian, to Nashville, which latter point he reached on the 17th of March, 1864. On that day he was assigned to the command of
Bridgeport, Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
rtment, which were not suited for the field, but would be most useful in manning the excellent forts that already covered Nashville. At Chattanooga he had General Steedman's division, about five thousand men, besides garrisons for Chattanooga, Bridgeport, and Stevenson; at Murfreesboro he also had General Rousseau's division, which was full five thousand strong, independent of the necessary garrisons for the railroad. At Decatur and Huntsville, Alabama, was the infantry division of General R. n of cavalry, about four thousand (4,000); Croxton's brigade, twenty-five hundred (2,500), and Capron's brigade, of about twelve hundred (1,200). The balance of my force was distributed along the railroad, and posted at Murfreesboro, Stevenson, Bridgeport, Huntsville, Decatur, and Chattanooga, to keep open our communications, and hold the posts above named, if attacked, until they could be reenforced, as up to this time it was impossible to determine which course Hood would take—advance on Nashv
Alabama (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
ted would cut off the supplies from the rich districts of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi equally well. Whichever way Sherman moves he will to act on the defensive in Tennessee, or to take the offensive in Alabama. * * * * The possibility of Hood's forces following General Shed two corps of this, to sally forth and make a hole in Georgia and Alabama that will be hard to mend. I will, probably, about November 1st, Georgia, as bases in connection with Atlanta, we have Georgia and Alabama at our feet. You ought to have more men, and it is a burning sham with the balance of the army make a campaign into the interior of Alabama and possibly Georgia. The campaign of course would be suggested benemy. It seems to me this move would secure the entire States of Alabama and Mississippi, and a part of Georgia, or force Lee to abandon Viand General Halleck, with respect to your project of a campaign in Alabama. It meets the full approval of them all in every respect, not onl
Mississippi (United States) (search for this): chapter 11
l be able to collect about twenty thousand men from that part of his command now along the Mississippi River available for a movement eastward from Vicksburg. He expects to have these ready to startthis service might be taken from the colored troops. 3d. By properly fortifying on the Mississippi River, the force to guard it from Port Hudson to New Orleans can be reduced to ten thousand men,lmington, you should strike for Savannah and its river; that General Canby should hold the Mississippi River, and send a force to take Columbus, Georgia, either by way of the Alabama or Appalachicolaton and the city of Savannah from your center, and let General Canby have command over the Mississippi River and the country west of it, I will send a force to the Alabama and Appalachicola, providedould-be Confederacy in two again, as it had been cut once by our gaining possession of the Mississippi River. General Sherman's plan virtually effected this object. That part of Sherman's plan h
Edgefield (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
force when the reenforcements ordered reach Nashville. * * * * From General Corse, at Rome, I l On the 16th I telegraphed General Thomas at Nashville: Send me Morgan's and Newton's old divisiing the excellent forts that already covered Nashville. At Chattanooga he had General Steedman's ders Military division of the Mississippi, Nashville, Tenn., January 15, 1864. Major-General Hallecks needed to guard the roads and bridges from Nashville south, both by way of Decatur and of Stevensent a letter to General Banks before leaving Nashville, directing him to finish his present expedierman a copy of the letter to Halleck, dated Nashville, January 15th, General Grant, a few days afters Military division of the Mississippi, Nashville, Tenn., April 5, 1864. Colonel C. B. Comstock, ers Military division of the Mississippi, Nashville, Tenn., April 10, 1864. Lieutenant-General U. Smine which course Hood would take—advance on Nashville, or turn toward Huntsville. Under the circu[20 more...]
Kingston, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
gia to Savannah or Charleston, that I again telegraphed to General Grant: Kingston, Ga., October 11, 11 A. M. Lieutenant-General Grant. We can not now remain o. A few brief extracts will close the account: On the 6th of November, at Kingston, I wrote and telegraphed to General Grant [General Sherman does not give theseed as follows: City Point, October 12, 1864, 1 P. M. General Sherman, Kingston. On reflection I think better of your proposition. It will be much better General. General Sherman, on page 154, says he received no answer to his Kingston dispatch at the time. The reason is obvious. It was dated 11:30 P. M. of the, and the next day Sherman left for Rome. His telegraphic communications with Kingston and with Washington, however, remained perfect, and it is not likely that a dis that can be spared for this command? Ed. R. Canby, Major-General. Kingston, Georgia, November 7, 1864. General Canby, New Orleans. Beauregard has left Ge
Montgomery, Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
anby, Major-General. headquarters Military division of the Mississippi. In the field, Atlanta, Georgia, September 10, 1864. General Canby, New Orleans. Dispatch of the 27th received. I got to Atlanta by a couple of good moves. You succeeded at Fort Morgan sooner than I expected. We must have the Alabama River now, and also the Appalachicola at the old arsenal, and up to Columbus. My line is so long now that it is impossible to protect it against cavalry raids; but if we can get Montgomery and Columbus, Georgia, as bases in connection with Atlanta, we have Georgia and Alabama at our feet. You ought to have more men, and it is a burning shame that at this epoch we should need men, for the North is full of them. They can raise a political convention any time of fifty to one hundred thousand men, and yet they pretend they can not give us what we want. But keep at it, and I only want to express my idea that I would not bother with the city of Mobile, which will simply absor
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