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Chapter 14: Sherman's campaign in Georgia.

• The opposing armies in Northern Georgia, 374.
-- Sherman's advance -- battle of Resaca, 375. -- the Nationals in possession of Resaca -- flight and pursuit of the Confederates, 376. -- a series of battles and skirmishes between Resaca and Big Kenesaw, 377. -- the Confederates on and around Kenesaw hard pressed, 378. -- operations around Kenesaw -- battle of the Kulp House, 380. -- a race for the Chattahoochee -- movements of the National troops, 381. -- the Nationals across the Chattahoochee, 382. -- Atlanta invested, 383. -- the Confederates and their works at Atlanta, 384. -- a bold movement by Hood, 385. -- First battle of Atlanta, 386. -- Stoneman sent on a cavalry raid, 387. -- misfortunes of Stoneman's command, 388 -- reorganization of Sherman's Army -- Hood flanked at Atlanta, 389. -- Second battle of Atlanta, 390. -- siege of Atlanta raised, 391. -- battles at Jonesboroa, 392. -- Hood's flight from Atlanta, 393. -- Sherman in Atlanta, 394. -- Sherman and the people of Atlanta, 395. -- Hood on Sherman's communications, 396. -- battle of Allatoona Pass, 397. -- Hood chased into Northern Alabama by Sherman, 398. -- Sherman's preparations for a March to the sea, 399. -- the author's visit to the scenes of the campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta, 401, 402, 403, 404.

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At the same time when the Army of the Potomac moved from the Rapid Anna toward Richmond, at the beginning of May,

1864.

General William T. Sherman, who had succeeded General Grant in the command of the Military Division of the Mississippi, marched southward from the vicinity of Chattanooga,

May 6.

with nearly one hundred thousand men,¹ having for his chief objectives, the destruction of the Confederate army under General Joseph E. Johnston, then at Dalton, in Northern Georgia,² and the capture of the city of Atlanta.

General Sherman received his orders from Lieutenant-General Grant y to advance, on the 30th of April, and he moved on the 6th of May. On that morning the Army of the Cumberland lay at and near Ringgold; that of the Tennessee at Lee and Gordon's Mill,³ on the Chickamauga, and that of the Ohio near Red Clay, on the Georgia line north of Dalton. The Confederate army then lay in and about Dalton. To strike that position in front was impracticable, for between the armies lay a rugged

William T. Sherman.

mountain barrier known as the Rocky Face Ridge. Through it, at an opening called Buzzard's Roost Gap,⁴ a