The War of the Rebellion: v. 1-53 [serial no. 1-111] Formal reports, both Union and Confederate, of the first seizures of United States property in the southern states, and of all military operations in the field, with the correspondence, order and returns relating specially thereto. 1880-1898. 111 vU.S. Government Printing Office, 1891 - Confederate States of America Official records produced by the armies of the United States and the Confederacy, and the executive branches of their respective governments, concerning the military operations of the Civil War, and prisoners of war or prisoners of state. Also annual reports of military departments, calls for troops, correspondence between national and state governments, correspondence between Union and Confederate officials. The final volume includes a synopsis, general index, special index for various military divisions, and background information on how these documents were collected and published. Accompanied by an atlas. |
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Page 223
... East Point his left , and endeavor to operate on our road with cavalry . I have ordered McPherson to set one corps ( Dodge's ) at work destroying the railroad completely back to and beyond Decatur . I suppose Garrard to be at this time ...
... East Point his left , and endeavor to operate on our road with cavalry . I have ordered McPherson to set one corps ( Dodge's ) at work destroying the railroad completely back to and beyond Decatur . I suppose Garrard to be at this time ...
Page 231
... East Point . You will immediately put your command in pursuit , passing to the south and east of Atlanta , without entering the town . You will keep a route to the left of that taken by the enemy , and try to cut off a por- tion of them ...
... East Point . You will immediately put your command in pursuit , passing to the south and east of Atlanta , without entering the town . You will keep a route to the left of that taken by the enemy , and try to cut off a por- tion of them ...
Page 243
... east of Atlanta toward the Augusta road . To keep up this delusion , you ... point we are making a pier bridge , as also two of pontoons . General ... East Point or vicinity with as little loss as possible . My headquarters , are now ...
... east of Atlanta toward the Augusta road . To keep up this delusion , you ... point we are making a pier bridge , as also two of pontoons . General ... East Point or vicinity with as little loss as possible . My headquarters , are now ...
Page 248
... east to control that road at or below East Point . I have the honor to be , your obedient servant , HDQRS . MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI , In the Field , near Atlanta , Ga . , July 25 , 1864 . General THOMAS : He General Garrard ...
... east to control that road at or below East Point . I have the honor to be , your obedient servant , HDQRS . MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI , In the Field , near Atlanta , Ga . , July 25 , 1864 . General THOMAS : He General Garrard ...
Page 255
... east and south so as to reach or threaten the railroad toward East Point . To this end Generals Stoneman and Garrard will call in all detachments and send to - morrow to Roswell or in rear of the infantry all crippled stock and ...
... east and south so as to reach or threaten the railroad toward East Point . To this end Generals Stoneman and Garrard will call in all detachments and send to - morrow to Roswell or in rear of the infantry all crippled stock and ...
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Aide-de-Camp artillery Assistant Adjutant-General Atlanta attack August 16 battery bridge Brig brigade Brigadier-General Captain captured Cartersville cavalry CAVALRY DIVISION Chattahoochee River Chattanooga Chief of Staff Colonel crossing CUMBERLAND Decatur dispatch East Point enemy enemy's F. A. SHOUP Fifteenth Army Fifteenth Army Corps flank force Fourteenth Army Fourteenth Army Corps FOURTH ARMY CORPS front Garrard Hascall HDQRS HEADQUARTERS ARMY HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT HEADQUARTERS FOURTH ARMY infantry intrenched J. B. HOOD J. M. SCHOFIELD Jonesborough July July 28 Kilpatrick last night Lieutenant-General Macon Major-General SHERMAN Marietta McCook McPherson miles MILITARY DIVISION MISSISSIPPI morning move movement Nashville O. O. HOWARD obedient servant OHIO Pace's Ferry Peach Tree Creek pickets position railroad rear rebel received regiments Resaca respectfully Roswell Sandtown scouts Second Division sent September Seventeenth Army Corps SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS STEEDMAN Stoneman telegraph Tennessee Third Division to-day to-morrow to-night trains troops W. T. SHERMAN wagons Wheeler WHIPPLE yesterday