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July 26th, 1864 AD (search for this): chapter 117
express my high gratification with the conduct of the troops engaged. I never saw better conduct in battle. The General commanding the Fifteenth Army Corps, though ill and much worn, was indefatigable, and the success of the day is as much attributable to him as to any one man. His officers, and in fact all the officers of this army that commanded my observation, co-operated promptly and heartily with him. O. O. Howard, Major-GeneraL General Thomas' order. Army headquarters, July 26, 1864. The Major-General commanding the army congratulates the troops upon the brilliant success attending the Union arms in the late battles. In the battle of the twentieth instant, in which the Twentieth corps, one division of the Fourth corps, and part of the Fourteenth corps were engaged, the total Union loss in killed, wounded and missing was one thousand seven hundred and thirty-three. In front of the Twentieth corps there were put out of the fight six thousand rebels; five hundred
September 9th (search for this): chapter 117
r the peace and honor of the South, and refuse to be governed by your decision in regard to matters between myself, my country, and my God. You say let us fight it out like men. To this my reply is, for myself, and, I believe, for all true men, aye and women and children, in my country, we will fight you to death. Better die a thousand deaths than to submit to live under you or your Government and your negro allies. Having answered the points forced upon me by your letter of the ninth September, I close this correspondence with you, and notwithstanding your comments upon my appeal to God in the cause of humanity, I again humbly and reverently invoke his Almighty aid in defence of justice and right. Respectfully, Your obedient servant, J. B. Hood, General. F. H. Wigfall, Aide-de-Camp. The citizens' petition. Atlanta, Georgia, September 11 Major-General W. T. Sherman: sir: The undersigned, mayor and two members of council for the city of Atlanta, for the time
August 1st, 1864 AD (search for this): chapter 117
nd held the bridge. The right wing of the army was extended so far around toward the west side of Atlanta, that its operations could not be observed, and was so distant that even the sound of its cannon was not to be heard in presence of the uproar in our front, but signal-officers report that during the engagement in the afternoon, they were pouring into the devoted city a heavy fire from cannon, as the smoke could be seen rising up in thick clouds. two miles North of Atlanta, Ga., August 1, 1864. There is little occurring in this grand army, at the present time, of particular interest. The Army of the Tennessee now occupies a strong position on our right wing, having been changed from the extreme left on the twenty-sixth. All day yesterday we could hear very distinctly the shrill whistle of the locomotives entering and departing from Atlanta. The cause of this extensive railroading we cannot fathom, although officers assert that the city is being evacuated, while others in
August 2nd, 1864 AD (search for this): chapter 117
great disorder. In half an hour after a superior force came down boldly, bent upon dislodging the impudent Yanks from their picket post, but at last accounts our troops were settling the dispute with leaden messengers, and the prospects of Massachusetts and Connecticut yielding to the insolent demands of South Carolina and Mississippi were not very encouraging. We still hold the position, and it is a very favorable one, commanding a fine view of the rebel line. near Atlanta, Georgia, August 2, 1864. The campaign is running to its fourth month, with scarcely a day but a large part of the command is under fire. Our losses in killed or wounded are already over a thousand, but this is no fair proportion of the losses of our army, as the fates have, as usual, put us in warm places. Will the people keep up their pluck and fight the thing out? It all depends upon their steadfastness of purpose. If Richmond does not fall sooner, the Army of the West will finally make its way to th
July 4th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 117
Schofield, and directly between him and the mountain, but an intervening forest prevents direct communication. Not even the flag-men themselves have the slightest knowledge of the import of the message they are sending; not a General in the army is let into the secret, unless he comes humbly as a student; nor can the signal-officers themselves read the message sent to them unless they have first had the countersign or key, given out daily. in the field, four miles South of Marietta, July 4, 1862. Marietta is ours; the valiant secesh who boastingly proclaimed that they would continue to hold the city at all hazards, have ignominiously abandoned their works around the Kenesaw, and at the present writing the detested Yanks are cooking sow-belly in the Valley City. As predicted in my last, Sherman has again outflanked Johnston, and as a natural consequence he has — retreated. On Friday last, Hooker's and Schofield's corps moved to the right some two miles, and the same night Mor
July 8th, 1864 AD (search for this): chapter 117
r rifle-pits, in advance of our lines. No discrimination seems to be made by Provost-Marshals, between the bounty-jumpers and the heroes of a dozen battles, who from the effect of too much stimulant, allow their furloughs to expire by a few days, and are arrested by the police and reported at the front as deserters. All are sent out under a fire where escape from death is almost an impossibility, with a guard in the rear, to shoot them if they falter in the work. Isham's ford, Georgia, July 8, 1864. On the evening .of the seventh of July, at eight o'clock, the Fourth corps opened up along its whole line the most tremendous canonnade of the campaign, expending over four hundred rounds of ammunition in half an hour. All this was directed against the rebels on the opposite side of the river, and was intended to draw their attention from an attempt which, through some misunderstanding, it was supposed General Schofield would make at that hour to cross the river above. All this time
July 11th, 1864 AD (search for this): chapter 117
above order will be read at least three times to every regiment, battery, and detachment of this command. By order of Major-General McPherson. William T. Clark, A. A. G. J. W, Barnes, A. A. G. two miles North-West of Big Shanty, Georgia, July 11, 1864. After halting two days in the vicinity of Acworth to recruit and await the completion of the bridge at Etowah, the army again took up the line of march southward at six o'clock yesterday morning. They have already found the reluctantly rve not known a more dramatic, brilliant, and at the same time bloodless episode, in this whole campaign than was enacted to-day by the command of General Schofield--so entirely successful, and so entirely without loss. Isham's ford, Georgia, July 11, 1864. The names of the three men mentioned as the first to take possession of the rebel gun unmanned by our sharpshooters, on the occasion of crossing the river, on the eighth, are James Vaught, Charles Miller, and James Carter. These all belo
July 21st, 1864 AD (search for this): chapter 117
air, as though fashioned according to the idea of a half-century past. July 20, 4.30 A. M.--The army has lain perfectly quiet during the night. The rebels do not seem at all disposed to come out of Atlanta and throw down the gage of battle on open ground. Headquarters are agog, and the army will doubtless move early. Another day's march will carry us across the second, if not the third, of their three railroads. Another account. in the field, three miles East of Atlanta, July 21, 1864. At daylight of the eighteenth, the Army of the Tennessee moved by the road toward Stone Mountain. The Second cavalry division took the advance, followed by the Fifteenth corps, and it by the Seventeenth corps. At Providence Church, a cross-road seven miles from Roswell, the Sixteenth corps took the Decatur road, the Twenty-third corps moving on a road still further to the right. East of Atlanta and between it and Stone Mountain, Peach-tree creek runs in a north-westerly direction
July 23rd, 1864 AD (search for this): chapter 117
ther means can he more surely bring himself to that just retribution which is the proper reward of his crime against his country and the civilization of the age. Let the rebel legions continue to precipitate themselves against the iron lines that press them toward the Gulf. It may ultimately give relief to their insane hate, and bring them, by the dreadful argument of blood, to the conviction that they are wrong and we are right. Battle near Atlanta. two miles East of Atlanta, July 23, 1864. The sanguinary assault by the rebels upon our right wing; on the twentieth, so shattered and disorganized their regiments, that they made no further offensive demonstrations during the twenty-first. Our own army, also, on the right wing, had escaped disaster at such cost that it was little disposed to advance, even if it had possessed the requisite strength; they were sufficiently rejoiced to see the rebel columns, beaten and broken, falling back before them. On the twenty-first, h
July 22nd, 1864 AD (search for this): chapter 117
night and as I write at seven A. M., the whole line is firing on the centre; the firing indicates work. Cars are running all night, and every few minutes we hear the whistle of their locomotives. The movement of the Army of the Tennessee completely deceived them. They supposed it to be a cavalry raid, and were surprised to find an army on their right and rear. Brigadier-General Giles A. Smith has been assigned to the command of Gresham's division. Battle of Peach-tree Creek. July 22, 1864. The bloody campaign of Sherman has been marked by a signal proof of the unquenchable valor of his men; of their readiness to give battle at any moment; of their proof against surprise, and their tendency to whip the enemy under all circumstances and against the most discouraging odds. The tremendous rebel attack on our right, on the evening of the twentieth, was one of those rare instances in warfare where the elaborate plans of a commander for the destruction of his adversary succe
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