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January (search for this): chapter 33
ese three armies was 98,797 men, and two hundred and fifty-four guns. Fortunately for the Confederacy the military genius of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston had been called again, although unwillingly, into service by President Davis, who had displaced Bragg from the Army of Tennessee only after he had accomplished a complete sum of disaster, and capped his career of misfortune on Missionary Ridge. On the 27th December, 1863, Gen. Johnston had assumed command of the army at Dalton, Georgia. In January he had fallen back from Dalton, and his advanced posts; on the 7th February he was encamped at Rome, Georgia; but he again advanced to Dalton shortly afterwards, and proposed then an offensive movement against the enemy,whose strength he knew would be greatly increased in the spring, and who, therefore, could be attacked with better advantage before such increase of the disproportion of numbers. Gen. Johnston knew very well that he could not expect reinforcements at pace with the enemy, an
1864 AD (search for this): chapter 33
mond, and the on to Atlanta, the two important movements of 1864. Sherman's demand of numbers. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's cas that of Sherman in Georgia; the great military effort of 1864 being resolved into two important movements: the On-to-richs interesting condition we must leave the great campaign of 1864 on the dominant lines in Virginia and Georgia, to make a raenough to draw attention after them. The naval events of 1864 may be briefly summed up as a battle in Mobile Bay; the desf glory. We pass to other events of the naval service of 1864, to find a record of Federal success, coupled with peculiarunder the protection of foreign flags; and in the summer of 1864 it was officially reported at Washington that 478,665 tons e of this chapter and in the group of events of the war, in 1864, outside of the grand campaigns of Virginia and Georgia, wes the most important of the detached military operations of 1864. This was a movement in the Trans-Mississippi, the invasio
May 1st (search for this): chapter 33
on to Richmond, and the on to Atlanta, the two important movements of 1864. Sherman's demand of numbers. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's command. he proposes an offensive movement. is balked by Bragg at Richmond. statement of Johnston's forces on 1st May. Johnston's policy of retreat. he proposes to fight at Cassville; but is overruled by Hood and Hardee. he crosses the Etowah. engagement at New hope Church. battle of Kenesaw Mountain. Sherman's ghastly experiment. he resorts to maneuverito explain his plans, the opportunity of the offensive was past, the enemy was being reinforced to more than twice Johnston's number, and was only waiting for the signal from over the Alleghanies to commence the On-to-atlanta movement. On the 1st May, the effective artillery and infantry of the Army of Tennessee amounted to 40,900; the effective cavalry to about four thousand. Gen. Johnston was thus greatly overmatched in numbers; and he had no prospect of compensation, but in superiour ski
September 3rd, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 33
lleged, for the service of the Confederates. That seizure was made in 1863. The terms in which that outrage was demanded, and the mean and cowardly circuit by which the British Government ultimately conceded it, may be placed here as an example of the timidity of that Government, and a striking evidence that nothing had been further from its intentions during the war than the recognition of the Confederate States. The demand was made as follows Legation of the United States, London, Sept. 3, 1863. My Lord: I have the honour to transmit copies of further depositions relating to the launching and other preparation of the second of the two vessels-of-war from the yard of Messrs. Laird, at Birkenhead, concerning which it has already been my disagreeable duty to make most serious representations to Her Majesty's Government. I believe there is not any reasonable ground for doubt that these vessels, if permitted to leave the port of Liverpool, will be at once devoted to the objec
August 14th (search for this): chapter 33
ssary measures in the proper quarters to ascertain the truth of the respective statements current here, that they are intended for the use of the Government of France or for the Pacha of Egypt, and have found both without foundation. At this moment, neither of those Powers appears to have occasion to use concealment or equivocation in regard to its intentions, had it any in obtaining such ships. In the notes which I had the honour to address to your Lordship on the 11th of July and the 14th of August, I believe I stated the importance attached by my Government to the decision involved in this case with sufficient distinctness. Since that date I have had the opportunity to receive from the United States a full approbation of its contents. At the same time, I feel it my painful duty to make known to your Lordship that, in some respects, it has fallen short in expressing the earnestness with which I have been in the interval directed to describe the grave nature of the situation in wh
June 27th (search for this): chapter 33
untain. These natural battlements covered the railroad back to the Chattahoochie river. On the 19th June the disposition of Johnston's forces was: Hood's corps with its right on the Marietta and Canton road, Loring's on the Kenesaw Mountain, and Hardee's, with its left extending across the Lost Mountain, and the Marietta road. Subsequently Cheatham's and Cleburne's divisions of Hardee's corps were moved up to Kenesaw Mountain, which was properly the apex of Johnston's lines. On the 27th June Sherman attempted an assault by McPherson and Thomas on Johnston's left centre on Kenesaw Mountain. The battle was but the slaughter of thousands of his men. They never came in contact with the Confederate works; they were swept by a fiery torrent of shot and shell; and when the attack was withdrawn more than three thousand of the enemy were scattered over the rugged ground, dead or bleeding. On the Confederate side, Cheatham's division lost one hundred and ninety-five men, while two tho
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