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bridges are down, and we will be after him.’
And on the 16th: ‘We are in possession of Resaca. * * * * Generals Stoneman's and Garrard's cavalry are trying to get into the rear of the enemy, and I hope will succeed.
Our difficulties will increase beyond the Etowah, but if Johnston will not fight us behind such works as we find here, I will fight him on any open ground he may stand at.’
It is easy to see what good ground there was for the opinion which prevailed in the Army of the Cumberland, that the failure of these first movements of the Atlanta campaign resulted from General Sherman's refusal to accept the advice of General Thomas, and persisting, instead, in pushing two armies for three days against ‘precipices,’ only to be obliged, when it was too late, to try the plan of Thomas, and failing solely because of delay.
The injustice of the attempt to lay the responsibility of the failure upon General McPherson can also be clearly seen in the light of these records.
Cincinnati: Wilstach, Baldwin & Co. 1875.
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