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The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley), chapter 57 (search)
No. 53.
reports of Brig. Gen. Thomas J. Wood, U. S. Army, commanding Third Division.
Hdqrs. Third Division, Fourth Army Corps, Atlanta, Ga., September 10, 1864.
Sir: The opening of the grand campaigns in the spring of 1864 witnessed a new phase in our military combinations.
Previously dispersion of our troops, and of course of our efforts, had-been the order of the day; for the campaigns of the spring and summer of 1864 concentration of our troops had been wisely resolved on. In conformity with this principle of concentration large masses of troops were concentrated in and near the northwestern angle of Georgia in the latter part of April for the summer campaign into this State.
The division which I have the honor to command, being the Third Division, of the Fourth Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, constituted a part of the troops so assembled, and it is the object of this report to present a faithful history of the part it bore in the grand campaign, which, extending o
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley), chapter 58 (search)
No. 54.
report of Col. Charles T. Hotchkiss, Eighty-ninth illinois Infantry, commanding First brigade.
Hdqrs. First Brig., Third Div., Fourth Corps, Near Atlanta, Ga., September 10, 1864.
In obedience to orders, I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of this brigade in the late campaign, commencing at McDonald's Station, near Chattanooga, Tenn.,on the 3d day of May, and ending at Lovejoy's Station, twenty-eight miles south of Atlanta, Ga., on the evening of the 4th instant, embracing a period of 123 days, and resulting in the constant defeat and pressing back of the rebel army-first under General J. E. Johnston, then General Hood--from Tunnel Hill, a distance of 150 miles, and the occupation of Atlanta, with the intervening country, by the U. S. forces:
This brigade at 12 m. on the 3d day of May moved with the division, on a road leading through Catoosa Springs, to Tunnel Hill, which point was reached about 12 m. of May 6, where the enemy was
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley), chapter 70 (search)
No. 66.
report of Col. Henry K. McConnell, Seventy-first Ohio Infantry, of operations August 9-September 8.
Hdqrs. Seventy-First Regt. Ohio Vet. Vol. Infty., Atlanta, Ga., September 10, 1864.
I have the honor to submit the following report of the Seventy-first Regiment Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry in the expedition to the rear of Atlanta:
It seems necessary for me in the beginning to state that Special Field Orders, No. 218, dated headquarters Department of the Cumberland, August 9, 1864, transferring the regiment from the Fourth Division, Twentieth Army Corps, to the Second Brigade, Third Division, Fourth Army Corps, were received on the 14th day of August, 1864, at regimental headquarters at Decherd, Tenn. Owing to directions from Major-General Rousseau, the regiment was not allowed to move until the 23d.
We were again detained, by orders from Major-General Steedman, at Dalton, Ga., from the 24th to the 28th.
On the evening of the last-named day we arrived at Vin
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley), chapter 73 (search)
No. 69.
report of Col. Frederick Knefler, Seventy-ninth Indiana Infantry, commanding Third brigade.
Hdqrs. Third Brig., Third Div., 4TH Army Corps, Before Atlanta, Ga., September 10, 1864.
Captain: I have the honor to submit the following report of the movements and operations of the Third Brigade, of the Third Division, Fourth Army Corps, from the time it left camp on the 3d day of May, 1864, until its arrival near Atlanta, Ga., on the 8th day of September, 1864:
The brigade was commanded during the campaign by Col. Fred. Knefler, Seventy-ninth Regiment Indiana Volunteers, Brig. Gen. Samuel Beatty, its commander, being sick and unable for duty.
The brigade was composed of the following troops: Nineteenth Regiment Ohio Veteran Volunteers, Col. Charles F. Manderson; Seventy-ninth Regiment Indiana Volunteers, Lieut. Col. Samuel P. Oyler; Ninth Regiment Kentucky Volunteers, Lieut. Col. Chesley D. Bailey; Seventeenth Regiment Kentucky Volunteers, Col. Alexander M. Stout; T
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley), chapter 105 (search)
No. 101.
report of Lieut. Col. Joseph H. Brigham, Sixty-ninth Ohio Infantry, of operations May 8-August 25.
Hdqrs. Sixty-Ninth Ohio Vet. Vol. Infantry, Atlanta, Ga., September 10, 1864.
The Sixty-ninth Regiment Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, Col. M. F. Moore in command, reached Chattanooga, Tenn., on the 8th day of May, 1864, on return from veteran furlough.
May 9, started for the front to join brigade; camped in Rossville, Ga., same night.
Next day marched two miles beyond Ringgold, Ga., and went into camp.
May 11, broke camp and marched to Buzzard Roost Gap, and there the command reported to General King, commanding Second Brigade, First Division, Fourteenth Army Corps.
On the next evening the regiment continued their line of march, passing through Snake Creek Gap, and reaching the battle-ground of Resaca at sunset on the 13th day of May, and was placed in position on the front line and was relieved late in the evening by the Seventy-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infant
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley), chapter 113 (search)
No. 109.
report of Capt. William J. Fetterman, Eighteenth U. S. Infantry, commanding Second Battalion, of operations May 4-July 5.
Atlanta, Ga., September 10, 1864.
Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of the Second Battalion, Eighteenth U. S. Infantry, during that part of the Georgia campaign in which I was in command of it:
The eight companies of the battalion, under the command of Capt. A. B. Denton and Lieuts. Frederick H. Brown, John I. Adair, John S. Lind, Edward N. Wilcox, James S. Ostrander, and Orrin E. Davis, with Lieut. Frederick Phisterer as adjutant, and Frederick H. Brown acting as quartermaster, having been temporarily detached from the detachment of the Eighteenth Infantry on outpost duty at Parker's Gap, Ga., rejoined the detachment at Ringgold, Ga., on the 4th of May, 1864, and with it proceeded, May 6, on the campaign.
On the 7th arrived at Buzzard Roost Gap, and went into position, remaining under fire three days. O
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley), chapter 119 (search)
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley), chapter 142 (search)
No. 138.
report of Capt. Toland Jones, one hundred and thirteenth Ohio Infantry.
headquarters 113TH Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Near Atlanta, Ga., September 10, 1864.
Captain: Herewith please find report of the operations of this regiment from the 2d of May, 1864, to September 2, 1864, the day on which Atlanta was occupied by our forces.
The regiment moved from its winter cantonment at Rossville, Ga., May 2, to Ringgold, under command of Lieut. Col. D. B. Warner, in connection with its brigade and division, and went into position in front of Ringgold Gap.
From 3d to 7th remained in camp, but changed position to east side of gap. 7th and 8th, marched to Tunnel Hill and Mill Creek Gap, and formed line of battle with Seventy-eighth Illinois on our right, with skirmishers in front, the balance of brigade in rear as supports.
We charged and took the isolated hills in front of the gap, losing 1 man killed, and took position on the last hill, covering the mouth of the gap. 9th t
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces at Cedar Creek, Va. , Oct. 19 , 1864
John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies, Chapter 4