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Drewry's Bluff (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
gathered army and decisively defeated the Federals at Drewry's Bluff, May 10th. Like Grouchy, Butler failed. Port Dar landing on the Appomattox General Butler after Drewry's Bluff. Butler, after his disastrous repulse at Drewry's BDrewry's Bluff, threw up strong entrenchments across the neck of the bottle-shaped territory which he occupied between the Appomattox successful effort in 1862, when the hastily constructed Fort Darling at Drewry's Bluff baffled the Monitor and the Galena. BDrewry's Bluff baffled the Monitor and the Galena. Battery Brooke was situated above Dutch Gap, the narrow neck of Farrar's Island, where Butler's was busily digging his famousconsisted merely of an advance by land up the James to Drewry's Bluff and inglorious retreat back again. Far from threatenie Confederates to construct strong river defenses below Fort Darling on the James to hold in check the Federal fleet and assd the river at Trent's Reach. In a straight line from Drewry's Bluff to City Point it was but nine miles, but the James flo
Fishers Hill (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ught up with the Confederates, who now turned at bay at Fisher's Hill to resist the further approach of their pursuers. The h at this point is about four miles wide, lying between Fisher's Hill and Little North Mountain. General Early's line extendeslow, then rapid, then — a rout. After the battle of Fisher's Hill the pursuit still continued. The Confederate regiments Market in time to cut off the Confederate retreat from Fisher's Hill. But at Milford, in a narrow gorge, General Wickham heed with tremendous energy. The battles of the Opequon, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek (the latter made memorable by Read's f as an avenue of danger to Washington. wooded base of Fisher's Hill, four miles away. The Sixth Corps started for Washington, but the news of Early at Fisher's Hill led to its recall. The Union forces occupied ground that was considered practicalte army were screened by the wooded ravines in front of Fisher's Hill, while, from the summit of the neighboring Three Top Mo
Resaca (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
o occupy Snake Creek Gap, a mountain pass near Resaca, which is about eighteen miles below Dalton. ving the remainder of his forces by the Resaca. The chips are still bright and the earth f rear. McPherson, within a mile and a half of Resaca, could have walked into the town with his twenees and torn ground in the lower picture. Resaca — field of the first heavy fighting The work of the firing at Resaca right flank, as McPherson had done, to Resaca, leaving a detachment of GenResaca, leaving a detachment of General O. O. Howard's Fourth Corps to occupy Dalton when evacuated. When Johnston discovered this, he Johnston determined to withdraw his army from Resaca. The battle had cost each army nearly three thnston within a month. Pursued by Thomas from Resaca, he had made a brief stand at Kingston and theetermined the Confederate commander to abandon Resaca. Withdrawing during the night, he led his armer. But the wary Confederate had again, as at Resaca, prepared entrenchments in advance, and these [2 more...]
Broadway Landing (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
struck at Lee. With forty thousand men, he was ordered to land at Bermuda Hundred, seize and hold City Point as a future army base, and advance upon Richmond by way of Petersburg, while Grant meanwhile engaged Lee farther north. Arriving at Broadway Landing, seen in the lower picture, Butler put his army over the Appomattox on pontoons, occupied City Point, May 4th, and advanced within three miles of Petersburg, May 9th. The city might have been easily taken by a vigorous move, but Butler delayed until Beauregard arrived with a hastily gathered army and decisively defeated the Federals at Drewry's Bluff, May 10th. Like Grouchy, Butler failed. Port Darling The masked battery Where Butler's troops crossed — Broadway landing on the Appomattox General Butler after Drewry's Bluff. Butler, after his disastrous repulse at Drewry's Bluff, threw up strong entrenchments across the neck of the bottle-shaped territory which he occupied between the Appomattox and the James. T
Rapidan (Va.) (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ce that Dalton became the winter quarters of the Confederate army. In the preceding autumn, when General Bragg had been defeated on Missionary Ridge and driven from the vicinity of Chattanooga, he retreated to Dalton and stopped for a night's rest. Discovering the next morning that he was not pursued, he there remained. Some time later he was superseded by General Johnston. By telegraph, General Sherman was apprised of the time when Grant was to move upon Lee on the banks of the Rapidan, in Virginia, and he prepared to move his own army at the same time. But he was two days behind Grant, who began his Virginia campaign on May 4th. Sherman broke Camp on the 6th and led his legions across hill and valley, forest and stream, toward the Confederate stronghold. Nature was all abloom with the opening of a Southern spring and the soldiers, who had long chafed under their enforced idleness, now rejoiced at the exhilarating journey before them, though their mission was to be one of str
Tunnel Hill (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
at army into a mobile machine willing and able to start at a minute's notice and to subsist on the scantiest food. On May 7th, General Thomas moved in force to Tunnel Hill to begin the turning of Johnston's flank. The headquarters of General Thomas at Ringgold, Georgia, May 5, 1864. Tunnel hill, Ga., beyond which Johnston oTunnel hill, Ga., beyond which Johnston occupied a strong position buzzard's roost gap and was divided into two corps, under the respective commands of Generals John B. Hood and William J. Hardee. But General Polk was on his way to join them, and in a few days Johnston had in the neighborhood of seventy thousand men. His position at Dalton was too strong to be carried bht to occupy Snake Creek Gap, a mountain pass near Resaca, which is about eighteen miles below Dalton. Sherman, with the main part of the army, soon occupied Tunnel Hill, which faces Rocky Face Ridge, an eastern range of the Cumberland Mountains, north of Dalton, on which a large part of Johnston's army was posted. The Federal
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
great army of one hundred thousand veterans. Buzzard's roost, Georgia, May 7, 1864 The second Minnesota infantry--engaged at rocky facseph E. Johnston, which had spent the winter at Dalton, in the State of Georgia, some thirty miles southeast of Chattanooga. It was by chanc of General Thomas at Ringgold, Georgia, May 5, 1864. Tunnel hill, Ga., beyond which Johnston occupied a strong position buzzard's roost gan not to fight was a The battlefield of New hope Church, in Georgia. These views of the battlefield of New Hope Church, in Georgia,Georgia, show the evidences of the sharp struggle at this point that was brought on by Sherman's next attempt to flank Johnston out of his position af the two great armies among the hills and forests of that part of Georgia that it is impossible for us to follow them all. On the 14th of Juften hampered capable leaders on both sides. His Fabian policy in Georgia was precisely the same as that which was winning fame against heav
Peach Tree Creek (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
h the Federals were at first irresistibly driven. In the background flows Peach-Tree Creek, the little stream that gives its name to the battlefield. Hood, impatientroops behind strongly fortified works on a ridge commanding the valley of Peach-Tree Creek about five miles to the north of Atlanta. Here he awaited the approach ofckly on July 21st, after finding that Hood had abandoned his outer line at Peach-Tree Creek. The vicinity of the Potter house was the scene of many vigorous assaultsd of the Confederate army he offered battle. Sherman's forces had crossed Peach Tree Creek, a small stream flowing into the Chattahoochee, but a few miles from Atlanxtended Federal line near this position. His abandoned entrenchments near Peach-Tree Creek were but a ruse to lure Sherman on into advancing incautiously. Sherman a The scene of McPherson's death Debris from the battle of Atlanta of Peach Tree Creek was placed at over seventeen hundred, the Confederate loss being much grea
Allatoona (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ck. The fight was at close range and was fierce and bloody, the Confederates gaining the greater advantage. The next day Johnston made a terrific attack on the Union right, under McPherson, near Dallas. But McPherson was well entrenched and the Confederates were repulsed with a serious loss. In the three or four days fighting the Federal loss was probably twenty-four hundred men and the Confederate somewhat greater. In the early days of June, Sherman took possession of the town of Allatoona and made it a second base of supplies, Kenesaw mountain. During the dark days before Kenesaw it rained continually, and Sherman speaks of the peculiarly depressing effect that the weather had upon his troops in the wooded country. Nevertheless he must either assault Johnston's strong position on the mountain or begin again his flanking tactics. He decided upon the former, and on June 27th, after three days preparation, the assault was made. At nine in the morning along the Feder
Jacksboro (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
was reestablished. As the The first Connecticut heavy artillery, assigned to the defense of Washington When Early approached Washington from the north, in 1864, the crack artillery companies, like that represented in the photograph (the First Connecticut Heavy), had all left the city to its fate. In the spring of 1862, as this picture was taken, just before the beginning of McClellan's Peninsula Campaign, Colonel Tyler was in the act of examining a despatch at the sally-port of Fort Richardson, Arlington Heights, Virginia. During the first two years of the war the Government devoted a great part of its energies to the development of a strong line of fortifications around the capital city, on both sides of the Potomac. Washington's nearness to the Confederate lines made such precautions necessary. The political significance of a possible capture of the national capital by the Confederates was fully appreciated. The retaining of large bodies of troops for the protection of
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