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Boydtown (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
To Meade he said: If the enemy can be broken and started, follow him up closely. I can't help believing that the enemy are prepared to leave Petersburg, if forced a little. Later in the afternoon, Parke, moving on Warren's left, towards the Boydtown road, was fiercely attacked, and forced back with heavy loss; but Warren sent a division promptly to his support, and the Ninth corps rallied. For a time the fighting was severe, but the rebels were finally repulsed, losing heavily in their turheir main line, and refusing battle outside of fortifications. The necessary works were then laid out, and the national line was extended from the Weldon road to the position gained at Peeble's farm. This was a little more than a mile from the Boydtown road, and not more than two miles from the Southside railroad. In these operations there were about sixty-six thousand men engaged on a side. Butler lost on the 29th and 30th of September, three hundred and ninety-four men killed, fifteen h
Coosa River (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ple will cripple their military resources. By attempting to hold the roads we will lose one thousand men monthly, and will gain no result. I can make the march and make Georgia howl. . . . On the 10th, he learned that Hood had crossed the Coosa river, between Rome and the railroad. He was compelled again to follow, but on the way he telegraphed to Grant: Hood is now crossing the Coosa, twelve miles below Rome—bound west. If he passes over to the Mobile and Ohio road, had I not better exwith his usual ardor, had not waited for Grant's reply, but on the 11th, he sent the following despatch, dated the same hour with Grant's—eleven A. M. Hood moved his army from Palmetto station, across by Dallas and Cedartown, and is now on the Coosa river, south of Rome. He threw one corps on my road at Ackworth, and I was forced to follow. I hold Atlanta with the Twentieth corps, and have strong detachments along my line. This reduces my active force to a comparatively small army. We cann
Milledgeville (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
en by the enemy's cavalry that swarms around us. . . . If I could be sure of finding provisions and ammunition at Augusta, or Columbus, Georgia, I can march to Milledgeville, and compel Hood to give up Augusta or Macon, and then turn on the other. The country will afford forage and many supplies, but not enough, in any one place, Alabama line, leaving open to me the road to Macon, as also to Augusta. If I was sure that Savannah would be in our possession, I would be tempted to make for Milledgeville and Augusta, but I must secure what I have. Forrest, however, was now rapidly advancing towards the railroad between Nashville and Chattanooga, two hundred miom which he will threaten Kingston, Bridgeport, and Decatur, Alabama. I propose that we break up the railroad from Chattanooga, and strike out with wagons for Milledgeville, Millen, and Savannah. Until we can repopulate Georgia it is useless to occupy it; but the utter destruction of its roads, houses, and people will cripple the
Columbus (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
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. . . . I will be ready to sally fortd, to co-operate with Grant. There was still another possible route for Sherman, running almost directly south, to Columbus, Georgia, from which point communication could be opened by the Chattahoochee and Appalachicola rivers, with the Gulf of Mexenemy's cavalry that swarms around us. . . . If I could be sure of finding provisions and ammunition at Augusta, or Columbus, Georgia, I can march to Milledgeville, and compel Hood to give up Augusta or Macon, and then turn on the other. The countryd strike for Savannah and its river; that General Canby should hold the Mississippi river, and send a force to take Columbus, Georgia, either by the way of the Alabama or Appalachicola river; that I should keep Hood employed and put my army in fine
Petersburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
movement of Butler from Deep Bottom capture of Fort Harrison Ord wounded national advance interrupted Granrren holds his position three rebel assaults on Fort Harrison Butler retains his prize rebels with- draw wiours later, but was then completely successful. Fort Harrison, the strongest rebel work north of the James, waince early morning. He announced the capture of Fort Harrison to Meade, and informed him that rebel reinforcemsuccess of the day was limited to the capture of Fort Harrison in the morning, and a later advance on the right of his forts. Butler also was assaulted, at Fort Harrison, three times during the afternoon. The loss of line north of the James, and Grant strengthened Fort Harrison and turned its guns against those who had constrn from Petersburg to the Richmond front, or from Fort Harrison to Peeble's farm. The superiority in numbers poded the alarm for hours; and when the capture of Fort Harrison became known, the excitement was greater than ev
Dalton, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
s cavalry under Wheeler had been sent to cut the railroad between Atlanta and Chattanooga, and on the 13th of August, Sherman learned that Wheeler was threatening Dalton. Before cutting loose, as proposed, he continued, I would like to know the chance of my getting the use of the Alabama river. I could easily break up the railroaonal officer at the outposts overheard a group of rebel soldiers conversing. Well, said one, the Yankees must retreat now, for Wheeler has blown up the tunnel at Dalton, and they can get no more rations by the railroad. Oh, hell! replied another, don't you know that Sherman carries a duplicate tunnel along. Nevertheless, alived. If you are satisfied the trip to the sea-coast can be made, holding the line of the Tennessee firmly, you may make it, destroying all the railroad south of Dalton or Chattanooga, as you think best. The only question on which they had for a few hours differed was whether it was not better to fight Hood before the march wa
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
James, as well as all details. There were not more than 66,000 men engaged in the two movements of Butler and Meade, including those in the trenches. We cannot fight to advantage with such odds, and there is the gravest reason to apprehend the result of every encounter . . . It is certain that the need of men was never greater. . . The men at home on various pretexts must be brought out and put in the army at once, unless we would see the enemy reap the great moral and material advantages of a successful issue of this most costly campaign. . . If we can get our entire arms-bearing population in Virginia and North Carolina, and relieve all detailed men with negroes, we may be able, with the blessing of God, to keep the enemy in check till the beginning of winter. If we fail to do this, the result may be calamitous. There have been critics who pronounced Grant's method of extending north and south of the James simultaneously—a blunder; but Lee, it appears, was of a different mind
Mississippi (United States) (search for this): chapter 2
Canby's should be reinforced to the maximum; that after you get Wilmington, 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 the way of the Alabama or Appalachicola river; that I should keep Hood employed and put my army in finon. Again, in the same letter, he said: If you will secure Wilmington and the city of Savannah from your centre, and let General Canby have command over the Mississippi river and country west of it, I will send a force to the Alabama and Appalachicola . . . and if you will fix a day to be in Savannah, I will insure our possession wing troops from the forts on the James, and directing pontoons to be towed out of sight of the enemy—he was obliged to discuss the condition of Canby on the Mississippi river, and the needs of commanders in East Tennessee; to order reinforcements to Sherman, and to consult the Secretary of War about affairs in Missouri and the Nor
Millen (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
. It will be a physical impossibility to protect the roads, now that Hood, Forrest, Wheeler, and the whole batch of devils are turned loose without home or habitation. I think Hood's movements indicate a diversion to the end of the Selma and Talladega railroad, at Blue Mountain, about sixty miles southwest of Rome, from which he will threaten Kingston, Bridgeport, and Decatur, Alabama. I propose that we break up the railroad from Chattanooga, and strike out with wagons for Milledgeville, Millen, and Savannah. Until we can repopulate Georgia it is useless to occupy it; but the utter destruction of its roads, houses, and people will cripple their military resources. By attempting to hold the roads we will lose one thousand men monthly, and will gain no result. I can make the march and make Georgia howl. . . . On the 10th, he learned that Hood had crossed the Coosa river, between Rome and the railroad. He was compelled again to follow, but on the way he telegraphed to Grant: H
Montgomery (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
nd he telegraphed at once: If there be any possibility of Admiral Farragut and the land forces under Gordon Granger taking Mobile, and further, of pushing up to Montgomery, my best plan would be to wait awhile, as now, and operate into the heart of Georgia from there. This was just at the time when Hood's cavalry under Wheeler ry. On the 4th of September, after Atlanta had fallen, he proposed that he and Canby should each be reinforced by fifty thousand men; that Canby should move to Montgomery, and he himself towards the same point, and, then forming a junction, they should open the line to the Gulf of Mexico. On the 10th, he said to Canby: We must ma at our feet. . . . I will be ready to sally forth in October, but ought to have some assurances that, in case of necessity, I can swing into Appalachicola or Montgomery. This of course was to carry out the original strategy of Grant. The general-in-chief, however, had by this time different views. The rebels west of the Mi
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