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Summary of the principal events.1

May 1, 1864.Skirmish at Stone Church.
May 2, 1864.Skirmish at Lee's Cross-Roads, near Tunnel Hill.
Skirmish near Ringgold Gap.
May 3, 1864.Skirmish at Catoosa Springs.
Skirmish at Red Clay.
Skirmish at Chickamauga Creek.
May 4, 1864.Maj. Gen. Frank P. Blair, jr., assumes command of the Seventeenth Army Corps.
Skirmish on the Varnell's Station Road.
May 5, 1864.Skirmish near Tunnel Hill.
May 6-7, 1864.Skirmishes at Tunnel Hill.
May 7, 1864.Skirmish at Varnell's Station.
Skirmish near Nickajack Gap.
May 8-11, 1864.Demonstration against Rocky Face Ridge, with combats at Buzzard Roost or Mill Creek Gap, and Dug Gap.
May 8-13, 1864.Demonstration against Resaca, with combats at Snake Creek Gap, Sugar Valley, and near Resaca.
May 9-13, 1864.Demonstration against Dalton, with combats near Varnell's Station (9th and 12th) and at Dalton (13th).
May 13, 1864.Skirmish at Tilton.
May 14-15, 1864.Battle of Resaca.
May 15, 1864.Skirmish at Armuchee Creek.
Skirmish near Rome.
May 16, 1864.Skirmish near Calhoun.
Action at Rome (or Parker's) Cross-Roads.
Skirmish at Floyd's Spring.
May 17, 1864.Engagement at Adairsville.
Action at Rome.
Affair at Madison Station, Ala.
May 18, 1864.Skirmish at Pine Log Creek.
May 18-19, 1864.Combats near Kingston.
Combats near Cassville.
May 20, 1864.Skirmish'at Etowah River, near Cartersville.
May 23, 1864.Action at Stilesborough.
May 24, 1864.Skirmishes at Cass Station and Cassville.
Skirmish at Burnt Hickory (or Huntsville).
Skirmish near Dallas.
May 25-June 5, 1864.Operations on the line of Pumpkin Vine Creek, with combats at New Hope Church, Pickett's Mills, and other points.
May 26-June 1, 1864.Combats at and about Dallas.
May 27, 1864.Skirmish at Pond Springs, Ala.
May 29, 1864.Action at Moulton, Ala.
June 9, 1864.Skirmishes near Big Shanty and near Stilesborough.
June 10, 1864.Skirmish at Calhoun.
June 10-July 3, 1864.Operations about Marietta, with combats at Pine Hill, Lost Mountain, Brush Mountain, Gilgal Church, Noonday Creek, McAfee's Cross-Roads, Kenesaw Mountain, Powder Springs, Cheney's Farm, Kolb's Farm, Olley's Creek, Nickajack Creek, Noyes' Creek, and other points.

1 of some of the minor events noted in this summary no circumstantial reports are on file. All such are designated in the index.

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