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July 19th, 1864 AD (search for this): chapter 117
ome of our officers halted a few minutes, the women told them that several of their neighbors had gone to Atlanta to invest all their money in tobacco, intending to return at once and offer their supplies to our soldiers as they came up. They are sure of a good market and good pay, if only they are permitted to return, and the profits they will realize by selling tobacco bought cheap for whitebacks, at a very high price in greenbacks, can readily be imagined. one mile North of Decatur, July 19, 1864. After the Twenty-third corps effected a junction with the command of General McPherson, on the evening of the seventeenth, the direction of the march was slightly changed, by the Twenty-third taking the main road to Decatur, and the left a parallel road about five miles east of the other. Early in the morning of the eighteenth, the order came to break camp and be on the march. The cavalry of the enemy still hovered about our vanguard, as on the day before, throwing up barricades of
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ghting of General Butterfield's division (Third) on the twenty-second, it turns out, was more severe than at first supposed. the south and east along the old Sandtown road. On the twenty-second General Hooker had advanced his line, with General Schom Atlanta of about four miles. On the morning of the twenty-second, somewhat to my surprise, this whole line was found abal McPherson had left me, viz., about 12:30 P. M. of the twenty-second, his Adjutant-General, Lieutenant Colonel Clark, rode ueneral Logan on this occasion was conspicuous as on the twenty-second, his corps being chiefly engaged; but General Howard haed by a circuit north and east, reaching Decatur on the twenty-second. After an interview with General Kilpatrick, I was satttle by the Fourteenth corps. In the battle of the twenty-second instant the total Union loss in killed, wounded and missingur right at Peachtree Creek, and lost. Again, on the twenty-second, he struck our extreme left, and was severely punished;
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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, however, they advanced their line half a mile or so, and occupied the crest of the slope which descends into the valley of Peach-tree creek, and throwing up s a thousand pieces, but fortunately injuring nobody. The night of the twentieth was consumed in marching through the rain and darkness. At one A. M. of the twenty-first, Cotton river was reached and crossed, and the fatigued men and animals bivouacked until daybreak, when they were moved forward again, encountering no enemy. rs was covered by one thousand five hundred killed, wounded, and missing; the greater loss fell on General Hooker's corps, from its exposed position. On the twenty-first we felt the enemy in his intrenched position, which was found to crown the heights overlooking the comparatively open ground of the valley of Peach-tree creek,
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ame for irresistibility and bravery. On the twentieth it was relieved by the Twentieth corps whichl attack on our right, on the evening of the twentieth, was one of those rare instances in warfare ot met the enemy half way. At noon on the twentieth, Geary advanced his tete de pont, and with tnk and rear of the rebel army. On the twentieth instant a general advance in the direction of Atlt by the rebels upon our right wing; on the twentieth, so shattered and disorganized their regimen the movement; yet a letter, captured on the twentieth, and dated on the morning of the eighteenth,Etowah. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, the twentieth, twenty-first, and twenty-second of May, theess force, and skirmished heavily. On the twentieth all the armies had closed in, converging tow Buckhead road. During the afternoon of the twentieth, about four P. M., the enemy sallied from hi the late battles. In the battle of the twentieth instant, in which the Twentieth corps, one divis
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e Twentieth corps, and I trust the same may not be unacceptable to your readers. On the nineteenth instant the army of the Cumberland arrived in position south of the Chattahoochee, and north of Ato make dispositions of troops to intercept them. Arriving at Sandtown on the morning of the nineteenth, Minty reported to General Kilpatrick, and received his orders. As soon as darkness had settl light parties of cavalry, but these were rapidly scattered. The pursuit was continued on the nineteenth, the First division of the corps leading, followed by my division. The line of march lay thro had drawn General McPherson's army from Woodland to Kingston, to be in close support. On the nineteenth, the enemy was in force about Cassville, with strong forts, but as our troops converged on himp a section of about four miles, and General Scllofield reached the town of Decatur. On the nineteenth, General McPherson turned along the railroad into Decatur, and General Schofield followed a ro
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about five miles east of the other. Early in the morning of the eighteenth, the order came to break camp and be on the march. The cavalry ohree miles East of Atlanta, July 21, 1864. At daylight of the eighteenth, the Army of the Tennessee moved by the road toward Stone Mountaieneral) Long, took command. At one o'clock on the morning of the eighteenth, the expedition left the cavalry encampment on the left of our lietter, captured on the twentieth, and dated on the morning of the eighteenth, at Atlanta, shows that at that time the enemy had intelligence, eep. From the time the command left the rear of our left, on the eighteenth, until it returned to the same point on the night of the twenty-sight wheel, General McPherson reached the Augusta railroad on the eighteenth, at a point seven miles east of Decatur, and with General Garrar executing the grand movement by the right flank, to begin on the eighteenth. This movement contemplated the withdrawal of the Twentieth corp
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the Chattahoochee. Early on the morning of the seventeenth, the Army of the Ohio, holding the centre, and thmmand of General McPherson, on the evening of the seventeenth, the direction of the march was slightly changed,ne with the same impetuosity that they had on the Seventeenth. Written words can scarcely depict the incredibl The pursuit was renewed early the morning of the seventeenth, my division moving along the railway. Throughouame day, and reached Nashville, via Cairo, on the seventeenth, and accompanied him on his journey eastward as fwattee rivers, which form the Oostanaula. On the seventeenth all the armies moved south by as many different rin ordered an assault on the centre, when, on the seventeenth, the enemy abandoned Lost Mountain and the long l general advance, I ordered it to commence on the seventeenth; General Thomas to cross at Powers' and Pace's feed the river and roads below the railroad, On the seventeenth the whole army advanced from their camps and form
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arrative of the operations of the Fourth corps from the time it left. Resaca in pursuit of the enemy until its arrival near this point. On starting upon the sixteenth ult., in pursuit of the fleeing enemy from Resaca, the Fourth were given the advance on the line of the railway and the dirt road running parallel to it, which theation of Resaca were: Killed, eighty-one; wounded, three-hundred and forty-eight; total, four-hundred and twenty-nine. Pursuit was made early the morning of the sixteenth, and during the day the whole of the Fourth corps passed the Oostanaula (having repaired for this purpose a part of the partially-destroyed bridge), and encampedfilled his orders and instructions to the very letter, whipping the rebel General Clanton en route ; he passed through Talladega, and reached the railroad on the sixteenth, about twenty-five miles west of Opelika, and broke it well up to that place. Also three miles of the branch toward Columbus, and two toward West Point. He th
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advanced between a half and three fourths of a mile. On the morning of the fifteenth, it was discovered by General Newton, of the Second division, Fourth Corps, t by the cavalry division of General Stoneman, moved to their positions on the fifteenth, which had been at an angle to the southwest, with the main line, and their snty. The batteries planted on our earth-works, thrown up on the night of the fifteenth, shelled the enemy's works quite vigorously, and inflicted quite a heavy lossfresh supply of ammunition brought to the front. Early in the morning of the fifteenth, an order was received for a grand advance of the whole line at eight A. M. Tf the services of a gallant and energetic officer. During the night of the fifteenth, the enemy evacuated the position in and around Resaca, and retreated south on his left, and a heavy battle ensued during the afternoon and evening of the fifteenth, during which General Hooker drove the enemy from several strong hills, captu
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opitious circumstances. Fair weather dawned once more, day before yesterday morning, and with it renewed hostilities on the skirmish lines. Movements have been active ever since, the history of which is subjoined. July 14 and 15.--On the fourteenth no fighting of importance took place, owing to the almost impassable roads. About noon, however, the Fourteenth and Fourth Corps advanced their lines slightly, which brought on very slight skirmishing, and continued all the afternoon The enemys. General Hooker was on its right and front, General Howard on its left and front, and General Palmer between it and the railroad. During a sharp cannonading from General Howard's right or General Hooker's left, General Polk was killed on the fourteenth, and on the morning of the fifteenth Pine Mountain was found abandoned by the enemy. Generals Thomas and Schofield advanced, and found him again strongly intrenched along the line of rugged hills connecting Kenesaw and Lost Mountain. At the s
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