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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The Confederate strength in the Atlanta campaign. (search)
the assault of Kenesaw Mountain, when, in fact, he employed less than 15,000 men. The remainder of the army was not engaged, except in the continuous battle of the skirmish-lines. The assaulting column of the Army of the Cumberland, directed against Hardee's corps, was composed of five brigades about nine thousand strong. The formation was such that each brigade presented a front of but two companies. The leading regiments lost very heavily; those in the rear suffered few casualties. General Thomas reported the entire loss as 1580. The attack of the Army of the Tennessee was made upon the Confederate intrenchments held by French's division and a part of Walker's, by three brigades of the Fifteenth Corps, numbering 5500 men. Their formation was in two lines; their total loss 603, three-fourths of this falling 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
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)
The opposing forces in the Atlanta campaign. May 3d-September 8th, 1864. The Union Army. Major-General William T. Sherman. Headquarters Guard: 7th Co. Ohio Sharp-shooters, Relieved two co's 10th Ohio Inf. May 20th. Lieut. William McCrory. Artillery: See batteries attached to divisions and corps. Brig.-Gen. William F. Barry (chief-of-artillery). Army of the Cumberland, Maj.-Gen. George H. Thomas. Escort, I, 1st Ohio Cav., Lieut. Henry C. Reppert. Artillery: See batteries attached to divisions and corps. Brig.-Gen. John M. Brannan (chief-of-artillery). Fourth Army Corps, Maj.-Gen. Oliver O. Howard, Maj.-Gen. David S. Stanley. first division, Maj.-Gen. David S. Stanley, Brig.-Gen. William Grose, Brig.-Gen. Nathan Kimball. First Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Charles Cruft, Col. Isaac M. Kirby: 21st Ill., Non-veterans attached to 101st Ohio till June 4th and 9th, respectively. when regiments rejoined from veteran furlough. Maj. James E. Calloway, Capt. William H.
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The struggle for Atlanta. (search)
middle part, covering the hosts of McPherson, Thomas, Schofield, and Steele; and reserved to himsel effective field force of 100,000,—50,000 with Thomas, 35,000 with McPherson, 15,000 with Schofield.g upon Johnston's communications near Resaca. Thomas here urged his own views, which were to give Swentieth Corps, and almost beyond our hearing, Thomas made his third push. In this action fifty wer Sherman pressed after McPherson the armies of Thomas and Schofield. But Johnston was not in a hurrght upon the Oostenaula River, opposite Polk. Thomas, with the corps of Palmer and Hooker, came nexind them abandoned. In the ensuing pursuit, Thomas, crossing the river on a floating bridge, haste, Georgia, Jefferson C. Davis's division from Thomas's army sweeping farther still to the right, anly hot day, was spent by all in readjustment. Thomas brought his three corps forward, near to the es marching around by the rear of Schofield and Thomas, in order to throw itself forward close to Atl[25 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Repelling Hood's invasion of Tennessee. (search)
No order could have been more unwelcome to General Thomas. It removed him from the command of his on was never made. On the 19th he wrote to General Thomas: I will send back to Tennessee the Fouack to Franklin. At 3:30 the same morning General Thomas sent him similar orders. Daylight revealeTheir arrival completed the force on which General Thomas was to rely for the task he now placed befrals office in Washington, was not sent to General Thomas, and he did not know of its existence unti Elliott, who had been chief of cavalry on General Thomas's staff in the Atlanta campaign. General K On the afternoon of the 14th of December General Thomas summoned his corps commanders, and, delivecomplete his work. Before he could rejoin General Thomas the assault was made, and the enemy were dheer, the voice of the American people, as General Thomas called it, rent the air. It was an exultan or deserters, a larger number of men than General Thomas had been able to place at Pulaski to hinde[27 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The Union cavalry in the Hood campaign. (search)
ough the supreme command had been conferred on Thomas, a host in himself, aided by such able lieutenherwise to fit the corps for the field. General Thomas now resolved to take a few days for repairmeeting of the corps commanders, called by General Thomas the night of the 10th, the feasibility of battle, which had already been outlined by General Thomas, involved a grand turning movement by the rrence. This was also entirely in accord with Thomas's own opinion, and, inasmuch as no one in thatd gone, and it was upon that occasion that General Thomas, after repeating the orders he had receiveten too soon afterward, especially that of General Thomas, to give a strictly accurate account of th. To meet this contingency I suggested to General Thomas, about 10 A. M., that it might be well to ught to me, and forwarded by me at once to General Thomas. This dispatch seems to have been lost af and fall into our own lines. Seeing all this Thomas turned to Schofield and indicated that the tim[13 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces at Nashville, Dec. 15-16, 1864. (search)
The opposing forces at Nashville, Dec. 15-16, 1864. The Union Army, Major-General George H. Thomas. Fourth Army Corps, Brig.-Gen. Thomas J. Wood. first division, Brig.-Gen. Nathan Kimball. First Brigade, Col. Isaac M. Kirby: 21st Ill., Capt. William 11. Jamison; 38th Ill., Capt. Andrew M. Pollard; 31st Ind., Col. John T. Smith; 81st Ind., Maj. Edward G. Mathey; 90th Ohio, Lieut.-Col. Samuel N. Yeoman; 101st Ohio, Lieut.-Col. Bedan B. McDanald. Brigade loss: k, 20; w, 100 ==120. Second Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Walter C. Whitaker: 96th Ill., Maj. George Hicks; 115th Ill., Col. Jesse H. Moore; 35th Ind., Lieut.-Col. Augustus G. Tassin; 21st Ky., Col. James C. Evans; 23d Ky., Lieut.-Col. George W. Northup; 45th Ohio, Lieut.-Col. John H. Humphrey; 51st Ohio, Lieut.-Col. Charles H. Wood. Brigade loss: k, 10; w, 38; m, 1==49. Third Brigade, Brig.-Gen. William Grose: 75th Ill., Col. John E. Bennett; 80th Ill., Capt. James Cunningham; 84th Ill., Lieut.-Col. Charles H. Morton; 9th Ind.,