The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate ArmiesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1891 - Confederate States of America |
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14th Army Corps 4th Army Adairsville artillery assault Atlanta attack August August 25 battalion Battery bivouacked bridge Brig Brigadier-General camp campaign Capt Captain captured casualties cavalry Chattahoochee River Colonel column command Company crossed driving the enemy encamped enemy's skirmishers engaged enlisted Etowah River evacuated flank force Fourteenth Army Corps Fourth Army Corps Fourth Corps front line halted HDQRS Illinois Illinois Infantry Indiana Indiana Volunteers intrenched Jonesborough July July 22 June June 14 June 27 Kenesaw Mountain Kentucky killed Lieut line of battle loss Major-General marched Marietta morning moved forward movement night occupied officers Ohio Infantry Ohio Volunteers operations ordered Pace's Ferry Peach Tree Creek picket prisoners rear rebel regiment relieved remained Resaca respectfully ridge rifle-pits road Rocky Face Second Brigade Second Division September skirmish line Tennessee Third Brigade tion took position troops Tunnel Hill Twentieth Corps Volunteer Infantry wounded yards
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Page 48 - Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer to be designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate. The officers to give their individual paroles not to take up arms against the...
Page 48 - GENERAL: I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army...
Page 47 - ... Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate States army known as the Army of Northern Virginia.
Page 19 - ... Take all provisions, forage and stock wanted for the use of your command. Such as cannot be consumed, destroy. It is not desirable that the buildings should be destroyed — they should, rather, be protected; but the people should be informed that so long as an army can subsist among them recurrences of these raids must be expected, and we are determined to stop them at all hazards.
Page 87 - The national thanks are tendered by the President to Major-General William T. Sherman, and the gallant officers and soldiers of his command before Atlanta, for the distinguished ability, courage, and perseverance displayed in the campaign in Georgia, which, under divine favor, has resulted in the capture of Atlanta.
Page 2 - Whether they might have been better in conception and execution is for the people, who mourn the loss of friends fallen, and who have to pay the pecuniary cost, to say. All I can say is, that what I have done has been done conscientiously, to the best of my ability, and in what I conceived to be for the best interests of the whole country.
Page 7 - This I regarded as a great success, and it removed from my mind the most serious apprehensions I had entertained, that of crossing the river in the face of an active, large, well-appointed and ably-commanded army, and how so large a train was to be carried through a hostile country and protected.
Page 2 - I therefore determined, first, to use the greatest number of troops practicable against the armed force of the enemy ; preventing him from using the same force at different seasons, against first one and then another of our armies.and the possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance. Second, to hammer continuously against the armed force of the enemy...
Page 49 - This done, each officer and man will be allowed to return to his home, not to be disturbed by United States authority so long as they observe their paroles and the laws in force where they may reside.
Page 1 - From an early period in the rebellion I had been impressed with the idea that active arid continuous operations of all the troops that could be brought into the field, regardless of season and weather, were necessary to a speedy termination' of the war. The resources of the enemy and his numerical strength were far inferior to ours...