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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 181 (search)
was in position in different sections of the lines for the most part, yet firing but a few rounds, until the enemy evacuated, June 5, 1864. After resting until the 10th of June the battery moved with the division and took up a position. June 15, in line in front of the enemy's first line at Kenesaw Mountain, where it remained until the 19th, when the enemy fell back to the mountain. On the evening of the 22d of June earth-works were constructed for the battery in the new line in front of Kenesaw, and went into position at daylight on the 23d, dismounting ammunition chests and sending limbers, caissons, and horses to the rear, in which position it remained, firing more or less every day at the enemy's batteries on the top and rifle-pits on the slope of the mountain, with an accuracy rarely equaled by smo(th-bore guns, until the evening of July 2, when it moved to the right during the night, when the enemy evacuated the very strong position. The battery marched with the division in
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 182 (search)
ion in rear of Stanley's right. Newton connects with the Fourteenth Army Corps (Palmer's) on the left. Our front covered by a strong line of skirmishers, five regiments, which connects with Baird's skirmishers on the left and Hooker's (Twentieth Army Corps) on the right. 8 p. m., received note from General Thomas, dated 6.30 p. m., stating if we could get no farther to fortify where we are, &c. The hill that our main line is now on is on the line of ridges that connects Lost Mountain and Kenesaw, and from which the waters flow toward the Chattahoochee. The country through which we moved and skirmished was rough and rolling, and was covered with dense woods and underbrush. Day bright and. cool. About 45 killed and wounded to-day in the corps; nearly all in Newton's division. June 16.-1 a. m., received order from department headquarters as follows: Early to-morrow morning you will find as many positions as possible for batteries to bear upon the enemy's breast-works, and e
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., Iuka and Corinth. (search)
e stopped, the conductor, engineer, and many of the passengers hurried to breakfast, leaving the train unguarded. Now was the moment of action! Ascertaining that there was nothing to prevent a rapid start, Andrews, our two engineers, Brown and Knight, and the fireman hurried forward, uncoupling a section of the train consisting of three empty baggage or box cars, the locomotive and tender. The engineers and fireman sprang into the cab of the engine, while Andrews, with Big Shanty (now Kenesaw) Station. Fromi a War-time sketch. hand on the rail and foot on the step, waited to see that the remainder of the band had gained entrance into the rear box car. This seemed difficult and slow, though it really consumed but a few seconds, for the car stood on a considerable bank, and the first who came were pitched in by their comrades, while these, in turn, dragged in the others, and the door was instantly closed. A sentinel, with musket in hand, stood not a dozen feet from the engine wa
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 5.35 (search)
drawing us far from our base, and that when the right moment should come he would turn on us and destroy us. We were equally confident, and not the least alarmed. He then fell back to his position at Marietta, with Brush Mountain on his right, Kenesaw his center, and Lost Mountain his left. His line of ten miles was too long for his numbers, and he soon let go his flanks and concentrated on Kenesaw. We closed down in battle array, repaired the railroad up to our very camps, and then prepareKenesaw. We closed down in battle array, repaired the railroad up to our very camps, and then prepared for the contest. Not a day, not an hour, not a minute was there a cessation of fire. Our skirmishers were in absolute contact, the lines of battle and the batteries but little in rear of the skirmishers; and thus matters continued until June 27th, when I ordered a general assault, with the full cooperation of my great lieutenants, Thomas, McPherson, and Schofield, as good and true men as ever lived or died for their country's cause; but we failed, losing 3000 men, to the Confederate loss of
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Opposing Sherman's advance to Atlanta. (search)
oad is Rocky-face, which aided the Federals. The small military value of mountains is indicated by the fact that in the Federal attack on June 27th our troops on Kenesaw suffered more than those on the plain. During the previous winter Major-General Gilmer, chief engineer, had wisely made an admirable base for our army by intre. The angle where Hardee's right joined Loring's left was soon found to be a very weak point, and on the 17th another position was chosen, including the crest of Kenesaw, which Colonel Presstman prepared for occupation by the 19th, when it was assumed by the army. In this position two divisions of Loring's corps occupied the crest of Kenesaw from end to end, the other division being on its right, and Hood's corps on the right of it, Hardee's extending from Loring's left across the Lost Mountain and Marietta road. The enemy approached as usual, under cover of successive lines of intrenchments. In these positions of the two armies there were sharp and ince
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The Confederate strength in the Atlanta campaign. (search)
of this army, either under Johnston or Hood, makes any account of the Georgia militia, a division of which under G. W. Smith joined the army about June 20th near Kenesaw, making its available force on that line nearly 70,000 men. [G. W. Smith, p. 334, says the militia were 2000, which would reduce Major Dawes's total to about 67,0 on the regiments in the first line. General Johnston expresses the belief that Northern soldiers could not be repulsed with casualties so small as reported at Kenesaw. In this he, unwittingly perhaps, compliments Sherman's army at the expense of his own. On the 22d of June, five days before the battle of Kenesaw, he tells us tne 10th, numbered over eleven thousand for duty. Their loss, therefore, was but nine per cent., while that of the troops of the Army of the Cumberland engaged at Kenesaw was 17 per cent.; of the Army of the Tennessee, ,1. per cent. In both cases the loss sustained was sufficient to demonstrate the futility of further effort. In
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces in the Atlanta campaign. May 3d-September 8th, 1864. (search)
. Wilson; 12th Wis. (transferred to First Brigade, Third Division, July 10th), Col. George E. Bryant, Lieut.-Col. James K. Proudfit. Second Brigade (at Allatoona, Kenesaw, Ackworth, and other points in rear from June 8th), Col. George C. Rogers, Col. Isaac C. Pugh, Col. John Logan: 14th Ill., Consolidated July 5th, under Col. G.l., Lieut. Walter H. Powell, Lieut. George R. Richardson, Lieut. Wendolin Meyer; 1st Minn., Capt. W. Z. Clayton, Lieut. Henry Hunter; C, 1st Mo. (at Allatoona and Kenesaw), Capt. John L. Matthaei; 10th Ohio (at Kenesaw from July llth), Capt. Francis Seaman; 15th Ohio, Lieut. James Burdick. Army of the Ohio (Twenty-third Corps), Kenesaw from July llth), Capt. Francis Seaman; 15th Ohio, Lieut. James Burdick. Army of the Ohio (Twenty-third Corps), Maj.-Gen. John M. Schofield, Brig.-Gen. Jacob D. Cox (temporarily May 26th and 27th), Maj.-Gen. John M. Schofield. Escort: G, 7th Ohio Cav., Capt. John A. Ashbury. first division, Discontinued August llth, and troops assigned to Second and Third Divisions, to which they were temporarily attached from June 9th. Brig.-Gen. Alv
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The struggle for Atlanta. (search)
Union earth-works in front of Big and little Kenesaw. From a War-time photograph. armies to the on of his lines. This time it was the famous Kenesaw position that he assumed. With his right stith the hope of carrying the southern slope of Kenesaw, or of penetrating Johnston's long front at satoona and the depots there. From the top of Kenesaw, Sherman communicated with Corse, On the 4a Camp, and the next day reached Marietta and Kenesaw. The telegraph wires had been cut above Mariry, artillery, and cavalry had been seen from Kenesaw (marching north), I inferred that Allatoona wf October I signaled from Vining's Station to Kenesaw, and from Kenesaw to Allatoona, over the headKenesaw to Allatoona, over the heads of the enemy, a message for General Corse at Rome, to hurry back to the assistance of the garriso the faint reverberation of the cannon. From Kenesaw I ordered the Twenty-third Corps (General Coxdistant eighteen miles. The signal-officer on Kenesaw reported that since daylight he had failed to
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 14: Sherman's campaign in Georgia. (search)
Kenesaw, 377. the Confederates on and around Kenesaw hard pressed, 378. operations around KenesawKenesaw battle of the Kulp House, 380. a race for the Chattahoochee movements of the National troops, 3. where before him arose the Twin Mountain of Kenesaw (Big and Little), with Lost and Pine mountainhis was the appearance of the summit of great Kenesaw, when the writer sketched it, in May, 1866. ation. To the left is seen the top of little Kenesaw. In the distance, at the center of the pictuand the long line of works connecting it with Kenesaw. Sherman continued to press them heavily at e lines of his antagonist. McPherson watched Kenesaw, and worked his left forward. Thomas, in a suntain, July 27, 3,000; other contests around Kenesaw, 4,500; skirmishing between the Kenesaw and tnd approaching Big Shanty, in the vicinity of Kenesaw, the country seemed t# be overspread with a nur sketches and observations, one passed over Kenesaw, and drenched us gently while we descended to[14 more...]
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 28 (search)
lled Rebel repulse at Kulp House Sherman assaults Kenesaw, and is repulsed with a loss of 3,000 flanks Johnstempting to force, by sharp fighting, a way between Kenesaw and Pine mountains. In the desultory conflict thatne of strong breastworks connecting the latter with Kenesaw. Meantime, rain fell almost incessantly; the narrooads were rocky gullies; and the Rebel batteries on Kenesaw belched iron constantly at our lines — the balls ge after careful preparation, at two points, south of Kenesaw, and in front of Gens. Thomas and McPherson respectly justify Grant's order to assault at Cold Harbor: Kenesaw being a palpable Gibraltar, which Cold Harbor is no July 2. forward his right: McPherson, in front of Kenesaw, being relieved by Garrard's cavalry, and ordered tntaneous. Though its execution began at nightfall, Kenesaw was forthwith evacuated by Johnston; our skirmisher ; and, when French attacked Allatoona, he was near Kenesaw, 18 miles distant ; whence, at 10 A. M., he could s
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