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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 1 (search)
th the command were ordered there, and loaded by the twelfth, on the evening of which the whole corps evacuating Kingston had concentrated. The work of destroying the railroad from the Etowah River to Big Shanty was assigned to the Fourteenth corps, and early on the morning of the thirteenth it was commenced. The march, and complete destruction of the track, was accomplished by eleven (11) o'clock at night. The whole corps moved early the next morning from its camp in the vicinity of Ackworth and Big Shanty, and camped at the Chattahoochee River. On the morning of the fifteenth, the corps reached Atlanta, and bivouacked in the suburbs of the city. The remainder of the day and night was spent in issuing clothing to the men, filling up empty wagons with provisions, equalizing and assigning trains to the different commands, with a view to rapid marching. On the morning of the sixteenth, the head of the column marched on the road leading to Covington, through Decatur, and ma
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 63 (search)
t night. On the thirteenth, I resumed the march southward, and at Ackworth commenced destroying the railroad, which was continued to Big Shaned the march, and passing Kenesaw Mountain, leaving Big Shanty and Ackworth on the right, we crossed the Allatoona Mountain, the Etowah River,g morning I crossed the Etowah, marched through Allatoona Pass and Ackworth, destroyed two (2) miles of railroad, and camped my troops at Big ber thirteenth. October eighth, marched within a short distance of Ackworth, where we remained until the evening of the tenth, when we startedventh, and twelfth. November thirteenth, marched at daylight to Ackworth, thirteen miles, destroying the railroad from the Etowah River to in the direction of Dallas. October eighth, moved to a point near Ackworth, and remained in camp until five P. M., October tenth, when the diroyed the railroad from Allatoona Creek to a point one mile beyond Ackworth, and went into camp at Big Shanty. November fourteenth, division
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 69 (search)
e cavalry, and no positive information gained of the enemy, except the whereabouts and movement of their cavalry, and that Hood had crossed a part, if not all his force, over the Chattahoochee. I ascertained, on the second instant, that the enemy's cavalry had destroyed the railroad at or near Big Shanty, that Wheeler was at Villanow, and had sent a detachment to assault Dalton, which sent in a summons to surrender, but did not await to attack. Later in the day a train was captured near Acworth, and the road torn up three miles south of Allatoona, and on the following day, (October third,) General Sherman ordered me to suspend a movement I contemplated, stating that Hood was gradually developing his plans, which were of a very extensive character. At noon, on the fourth instant, they were sufficiently discovered to induce General Sherman to signal from Kenesaw (telegraph communication having been destroyed) that Hood was moving on Allatoona, thence to Rome. Large fires were dis
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 58 (search)
if it had not been so before, by preventing the surprise, upon which success in a great degree depended, he was recalled. Skirmishing continued until the fourth of June--the enemy gradually extending his intrenched line toward the railroad at Acworth. On the morning of the fifth the army was formed, with its left at Lost Mountain, its centre near Gilgath Church, and its right near the railroad. On the seventh the right, covered by Noonday Creek, was extended across the Marietta and AcworthAcworth road. The enemy approached under cover of successive lines of intrenchments. There was brisk and incessant skirmishing until the eighteenth. On the fourteenth the brave Lieutenant-General Polk, distinguished in every battle in which this army had fought, fell by a cannon shot at an advanced post. Major-General Loring succeeded to the command, which he held until the seventh of July with great efficiency. On the fourth of June a letter from Governor Brown informed me that he had organize
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 48: (search)
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
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter VII (search)
ed by General Thomas only to support me, and that he would do no more. The day was already far advanced, and before I could bring troops from another part of my line darkness came on, and the action ended for the day. By the next morning I had brought another division of the Twenty-third Corps to the flank, and General Sherman arrived on the ground. By his personal orders this division was pushed straight through the woods to a point in the enemy's rear, on the road leading from Dallas to Acworth, which point it reached without any opposition, and there intrenched. That night Johnston abandoned his lines. An inspection of the enemy's intrenchments demonstrated that our skirmishers were right, and that a single brigade on our left would have been ample to turn the enemy's flank and open the way to victory. The above facts were immediately reported to Sherman and Thomas. I do not know what action, if any, was taken upon them. I refer to this incident, not as especially affecti
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XVI (search)
f mine, at least until the fall of Richmond takes place. I am afraid Thomas, with such lines of road as he has to protect, could not prevent Hood going north. With Wilson turned loose with all your cavalry, you will find the rebels put much more on the defensive than heretofore. Sherman to Grant. October 11, 1864, 10 A. M. Hood moved his army from Palmetto Station across by Dallas and Cedartown, and is now on the Coosa River, south of Rome. He threw one corps on my road at Acworth, and I was forced to follow. I hold Atlanta with the Twentieth Corps, and have strong detachments along my line. These reduce my active force to a comparatively small army. We cannot remain now on the defensive. With 25,000 men, and the bold cavalry he has, he can constantly break my road. I would infinitely prefer to make a wreck of the road and of the country from Chattanooga to Atlanta, including the latter city, send back all my wounded and worthless, and, with my effective army, m
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
Index A Abolitionist, distinguished from antislavery man, 74 Accident in war, 234 Acworth, Ga., military movements near, 130, 316 Adams, Charles F., U. S. Minister at London, 385, 392 Adjutant-general, the office of the, 422, 423, 469, 470 Advance and Retreat (Hood's), 172 Alabama, Hood's proposed movement toward, 163; Thomas proposes a campaign in, 253, 255, 256, 305; abundance of supplies in, 288; Thomas to have command over, 317 Alexander, Col. Barton S., trip toehensions of interference from, 313; anticipated movement on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, 315; crosses the Coosa, 315, 316; movement from Palmetto Station, 316; probability of his striking for Nashville, 316; movements at Dallas, Cedartown, and Acworth, 316; retreat down the Coosa, 316, 318; Thomas to watch, 317; position near Selma, 318; assembles Georgia militia, 319; Thomas to take offensive against, 319; 320, 325, 326; at Florence and Tuscumbia, 320; Thomas to hold in check, 321; Thomas's
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Allatoona pass, (search)
orce at and near Dallas. Johnston was on the alert, and tried to prevent this formidable flank movement. Hooker's corps met Confederate cavalry near Pumpkinvine Creek, whom he pushed across that stream and saved a bridge they had fired. Following them eastward miles, he (Hooker) found the Confederates in strong force and in battle order. A sharp conflict ensued, and at 4 P. M. he made a bold push, by Sherman's order, to secure possession of a point near New Hope Church, where roads from Ackworth. Marietta, and Dallas met. A stormy night ensued, and Hooker could not drive the Confederates from their position. On the following morning Sherman found the Confederates strongly intrenched, with lines extending from Dallas to Marietta. The approach to their intrenchments must be made over rough, wooded, and broken ground. For several days, constantly skirmishing, Sherman tried to break through their lines to the railway east of the Allatoona Pass. McPherson's troops moved to Dallas
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, Georgia, 1864 (search)
rty. OHIO--111th Infantry. June 3: Skirmish, AckworthIOWA--8th Cavalry. WISCONSIN--1st Cavalry. June 3-4: Skirmishes, AckworthIOWA--8th Cavalry. INDIANA--2d and 4th Cavalry. TENNESSEE--1st Cavalry. . Gunboat "Water Witch." June 4: Engagement, AckworthNEW YORK--143d Infantry. OHIO--38th Infantry. untINDIANA--85th Infantry. June 5: Skirmish, AckworthNEW YORK--141st Infantry. June 6: Action, BigkMASSACHUSETTS--2d Infantry. June 8: Action, AckworthINDIANA--18th Indpt. Battery Light Arty. June,558 missing. Total, 5,300. June 10: Action, AckworthINDIANA--4th Cavalry. June 10: Action, Pine MMountain, June 10-July 2. June 12: Skirmish, AckworthNEW YORK--60th Infantry. June 13: Skirmish, Bd, 22d and 26th Infantry. June 18: Skirmish, AckworthOHIO--97th Infantry. June 18: Skirmish, AllatoonaINDIANA--5th Cavalry. June 30: Skirmish, AckworthINDIANA--63d Infantry. July --: Scout to PickMariettaOHIO--5th Cavalry. Oct. 4: Skirmish, AckworthILLINOIS--14th and 15th Battalions Infantry (3[1 more...]
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