Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies |
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Adairsville Adjutant advance Army of Mississippi Army of Tennessee arrived artillery assault attack batteries Bragg breastworks brigade campaign captured Cassville cavalry Chattahoochee Chattahoochee river Cheatham Colonel Confederate Army corps commanders crossed Dalton to Atlanta Decatur direction division duty effective Emmetsburg enemy enemy's engaged entrenchments Etowah Federal Army fight fire force front G. W. Smith gallant Georgia Hampton's Legion Hardee Hardee's headquarters Hill Hood's Hope Church horse hundred infantry instructed J. B. HOOD Jackson Johnston Johnston's Narrative Jonesboro July Lee's left flank letter Lieutenant line of battle Longstreet loss Macon Major McPherson miles Mississippi morning Mountain move forward movement night occupied officers official report Peach Tree creek pike Polk position railroad rear received regiment reply Resaca retreat Richmond ridge river road rode sent Sherman Sherman's Memoirs Shoupe soldiers soon staff Stewart Texas brigade thousand tion troops UNIV vicinity Wheeler whilst Wigfall
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Page 223 - In the name of common sense, I ask you not to appeal to a just God in such a sacrilegious manner, — you, who, in the midst of peace and prosperity, have plunged a nation into civil war,
Page 231 - ... outcasts, and exiles, and to subsist on charity? We do not know as yet the number of people still here; of those who are here, we are satisfied a respectable number, if allowed to remain at home, could subsist for several months without assistance, and a respectable number for a much longer time, and who might not need assistance at any time. In conclusion, we most earnestly and solemnly petition you to reconsider this order, or modify it, and suffer this unfortunate people to remain at home,...
Page 299 - If you delay attack longer the mortifying spectacle will be witnessed of a rebel army moving for the Ohio River, and you will be forced to act, accepting such weather as you find. Let there be no further delay.
Page 229 - They commenced and continued a partisan warfare until Lord Wellington, incensed by their activity, issued a proclamation calling upon them to take arms openly and join Soult or stay peaceably at home, declaring that he would otherwise burn their villages and hang all the inhabitants.
Page 223 - You yourself burned dwelling houses along your parapet, and I have seen to-day fifty houses that you have rendered uninhabitable because they stood in the way of your forts and men. You defended Atlanta on a line so close to town that every...
Page 222 - And now, sir, permit me to say that the unprecedented measure you propose transcends, in studied and ingenious cruelty, all acts ever before brought to my attention in the dark history of war...
Page 221 - I have deemed it to the interest of the United States that the citizens now residing in Atlanta should remove, those who prefer it to go south, and the rest north. For the latter I can provide food and transportation to points of their election in Tennessee, Kentucky, or farther north.
Page 82 - I have done all in my power to induce General Johnston to accept the proposition you made to move forward.
Page 226 - You say we seized upon your forts and arsenals and made prisoners of the garrisons sent to protect us against negroes and Indians. The truth is, we, by force of arms, drove out insolent intruders, and took possession of our own forts and arsenals to resist your...
Page 46 - I considered it my duty to report to you at once my opinion that it was unwise to attack up the Emmitsburg road...