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Etowah (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.34
bear to induce me to revoke his assignment, and issued the order relieving him from command only when I became satisfied that his declared purpose to occupy the works at Atlanta with militia levies and withdraw his army into the open country for freer operations, would inevitably result in the loss of that important point, and where the retreat would cease could not be foretold. If the Army of Tennessee was found to be unable to hold positions of great strength like those at Dalton, Resaca, Etowah, Kenesaw, and on the Chattahoochee, I could not reasonably hope that it would be more successful in the plains below Atlanta, where it would find neither natural nor artificial advantages of position. As soon as the Secretary of War showed me the answer which he had just received in reply to his telegram to General Johnston, requesting positive information as to the General's plans and purposes, I gave my permission to issue the order relieving General Johnston and directing him to turn ov
Marietta (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.34
extension of the Federal army toward Dallas, threatening Marietta, was deemed to necessitate the evacuation of that strong position. The country between Dallas and Marietta, eighteen miles wide, and lying in a due westerly direction from the lattin that mountainous country that lies between Acworth and Marietta, remarkable for the three clearly defined eminences: Keneaw Mountain, to the west of the railroad, and overlooking Marietta; Lost Mountain, half-way between Kenesaw and Dallas, and west of Marietta; and Pine Mountain, about half a mile farther to the north, forming, as it were, the apex of a triangle, ofe myself at his service. I reached his headquarters near Marietta, on the line of the Kenesaw, on Friday morning, which wass communications and destroying his depots of supplies at Marietta. Upon abandoning Atlanta, Hood marched his army in a w progress of the Federal army at Rome, Kingston, Acworth, Marietta, and every town or village along its route, thus carrying
Columbia (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.34
and moved rapidly by the turnpike and railroad to Columbia. On the evening of November 27th our army took poneral Forrest crossed Duck River a few miles above Columbia, and in the morning of the 29th Stewart's and Cheaal Stephen D. Lee's corps confronting the enemy at Columbia. The cavalry and the two infantry corps moved in Spring Hill, to cut off that portion of the foe at Columbia. The movement having been discovered after Hood'st General S. D. Lee, left in front of the enemy at Columbia, was instructed to press him the moment he abandonvement, would retreat rapidly, as he had done from Columbia, and it is now known that a part of his troops and the junction with his main force until it reached Columbia. During the 17th the enemy's cavalry pressed boldssee, on the line of Duck River; after arriving at Columbia, however, he became convinced that the condition oeral Forrest with the main body of his cavalry, at Columbia, to cover the movements of the army. The retreat
Chancellorsville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.34
soldier, Lieutenant General Polk. Having accompanied Generals Johnston and Hardee to the Confederate outpost on Pine Mountain, in order to acquaint himself more thoroughly with the nature of the ground in front of the position held by his corps, he was killed by a shot from a Federal battery six or seven hundred yards distant, which struck him in the chest, passing from left to right. Since the calamitous fall of General Albert Sidney Johnston at Shiloh and of General T. J. Jackson at Chancellorsville, the country sustained no heavier blow than in the death of General Polk. On June 18th, heavy rains having swollen Nose's Creek on the left of our position so that it became impassable, the Federal army, under cover of this stream, extended its lines several miles beyond Johnston's left flank toward the Chattahoochee, causing a further retrograde movement by a portion of his force. For several days brisk fighting occurred at various points of our line. The cavalry attack on Whee
Florence, S. C. (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.34
he Tennessee and move against Thomas, who with his corps had been detached by Sherman and sent into middle Tennessee. General Beauregard had sent orders to General Forrest to move with his cavalry into Tennessee; the main body of Hood's cavalry had been sent to follow Sherman. As the orders to Forrest were incidentally delayed, and Hood had not cavalry enough to protect his trains, he was compelled to wait for the coming of Forrest. To hasten the meeting, he moved down the river as far as Florence, where he arrived on October 31st. This unfortunate delay gave the enemy time to repair the railroad to Chattanooga, and accumulate supplies at Atlanta for a march thence toward the Atlantic coast. Forrest's cavalry joined on November 21st, and the movement began. The enemy's forces at that time were concentrated at Pulaski and at Lawrenceburg. Hood endeavored to place his army between these forces and Nashville, but our cavalry, having driven off the enemy at Lawrenceburg, gave notice
Fort McAllister (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.34
efense, General Hardee could have sustained a protracted siege. The city was amply supplied, and its lines of communication were still open. Although Sherman had reached Savannah, he had not yet opened communication with the Federal fleet. Fort McAllister, situated on the right bank of the Ogeechee, about six miles from Ossabaw Sound, was a serious obstacle in his way, as it was a work of considerable strength, mounting twenty-one heavy guns, a deep and wide ditch extending along its front, w take measures to invest Savannah, and in a few days had succeeded in doing so on every side of the city except that fronting the river. While Hardee's troops had not yielded a single position or lost a foot of ground, with the exception of Fort McAllister, when, on December 20th, he discovered that Sherman had put heavy siege guns in position near enough to bombard the city, and that the enemy was threatening Union Causeway, which extends across the large swamps that lie between Savannah and
Milledgeville (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.34
erty, extending even to the trinkets worn by women, made the devastation as relentless as savage instincts could suggest. On November 16th Sherman left his entrenchments around Atlanta and, dividing his army into two bodies, each from twenty-five to thirty thousand strong, the one followed the Georgia Railroad in the direction of Augusta, and the other took the line of the Macon and Western Railroad to Jonesboro. Avoiding Macon and Augusta, they passed through central Georgia, taking Milledgeville on the way, marching in compact column and advancing with extreme caution, although opposed only by detachments of Wheeler's cavalry and a few hastily formed regiments of raw militia. Partial efforts were made to obstruct and destroy the roads in the front and on the flanks of the invading army, and patriotic appeals by prominent citizens were made to the people to remove all provisions from its path, but no formidable opposition was made, except at the railroad bridge over the Oconee,
Abingdon, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.34
ler or some other, to accomplish this work? He said he could not—that he needed all the force he had in front. He then said that General Morgan was at Abingdon, Virginia, with five thousand cavalry, and, if the President would so order, this force could be sent into Sherman's rear at once. He also said that Stephen D. Lees impressive. Long ago, said the President, I ordered Morgan to make this movement upon Sherman's rear, and suggested that his best plan was to go directly from Abingdon through East Tennessee. But Morgan insisted that, if he were permitted to go through Kentucky and around Nashville, he could greatly recruit his horses and his men by volunteers. I yielded, and allowed him to have his own way. He undertook it, but was defeated, and has retreated back, and is now at Abingdon with only eighteen hundred men, very much demoralized, and badly provided with horses. He next read a dispatch from General Stephen D. Lee, to the effect that A. J. Smith had left M
Dalton, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.34
ston Expects General Sherman to give battle at Dalton the enemy's flank movement via Snake Creek Gto Lieutenant General Polk, and repair to Dalton, Georgia, to assume command of the Army of Tennesse, counting the troops actually in position at Dalton and those in the immediate rear of that place,hen he assumed command of the army. Army at Dalton, May 1, 1864, according to General Johnston's cky-Face Mountain, he withdrew his troops from Dalton and fell back on Resaca, situated on the Westend Atlantic Railroad, eighteen miles south of Dalton on a peninsula formed by the junction of the O for the abandonment of his strong position at Dalton, and of his subsequent position at Resaca, staodged from the first position—that in front of Dalton—by General Sherman's movement to his right threcame known that the army had fallen back from Dalton, and it gathered volume with each remove towarl Hill, capturing the enemy's posts at Tilton, Dalton, and Mill-Creek Gap; not deeming his army in c[4 more...]<
Ackworth, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.34
ed by many acts of gallantry, did not result in any advantage to our army. Falling back slowly as the enemy advanced to Acworth (June 8th), General Johnston made his next stand in that mountainous country that lies between Acworth and Marietta, remAcworth and Marietta, remarkable for the three clearly defined eminences: Kenesaw Mountain, to the west of the railroad, and overlooking Marietta; Lost Mountain, half-way between Kenesaw and Dallas, and west of Marietta; and Pine Mountain, about half a mile farther to the nibute. General Hood moved as was expected upon the enemy's line of communication, and his successes at Big Shanty and Acworth, in capturing those stations and thoroughly destroying the railroad between them, and his partial success at Alatoona, cuse was spared, not even a church. Similar acts of vandalism marked the progress of the Federal army at Rome, Kingston, Acworth, Marietta, and every town or village along its route, thus carrying out General Sherman's order to enforce a devastation
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