W. H. D. Rouse
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gill's morale remained relatively good until after the fall of atlanta shortly after that event he wrote i think this cause a desperate one there is no hope of defeating lincoln i wish i could be sanguine of success
john w hoggan a stalwart sergeant of johnston's army in poorly spelled words and awkwardly constructed paragraphs addressed to his wife demonstrated the character and strength of the lowly men who were the backbone of both armies
from near marietta on june seventeenth eighteen sixty four ha wrote the yankees charged us and we finally drove them back we all had as much to do as we could do james and ezekiel acted very brave the boys say ezekiel went to shooting like he was splitting rails in fact all the regiment acted their parts
the combat performance of hagen and his men contrasted markedly with that of one of the officers who was the acting company commander a lieutenant tomlinson on june twenty one hagen wrote his wife i have been in command of our company three days lieutenant tomlinson stays along but pretends to be so sick he cannot go in a fight but so long as i keep the right side up company k will be all right
hagen's morale remained high despite the fact that he had not received any pay for more than a year on july fourth he wrote that some of our troops grow despondent but it is only those who are always despondent and added all good soldiers will fight harder the harder he is pressed
but a coward is always ready to want an excuse to run or say they or we are whipped i never knew there was so many cowards until since we left dalton i do not speak of our regiment but some troops have behaved very badly
sergeant hoggin and other rebs who fought in the atlanta campaign had a wholesome respect for the men in blue who opposed them and rightfully so for the union rank and file mostly lads and young adults from the farms of the midwest were admirable folk deeply devoted to the cause of union one of them private john f brobst of the twenty fifth wisconsin regiment wrote his sweetheart before the campaign was launched
home is sweet and friends are dear but what would they all be to let the country go to ruin and be a slave i am contented with my lot for i know that i am doing my duty and i know that it is my duty to do as i am now a-doing if i live to get back i shall be proud of the freedom i shall have and know that i helped to gain that freedom if i should not get back it will do them good who do get back
despite the publication during the past century of many studies on the subject the atlanta campaign overshadowed both during the war and later by the engagements in virginia has not received anything like its due share of attention
now for the first time thanks to richard mcmurray's thoroughness as a researcher and skill as a narrator students of the civil war have a clear succinct balanced authoritative and interesting account of the tremendously important georgia operations of may to september eighteen sixty four
this excellent work should be as comprehensible and appealing to those who read history and tour battle areas for fun as it is to those who have achieved expertness in civil war history bell i wiley
Part 1 of The Road Past Kennesaw, The Atlanta Campaign of 1864 by Richard Manning McMurray.
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Part 1.
Spring, 1864.
One of the most important military campaigns of the American Civil War was fought in northwestern Georgia during the spring and summer of 1864,
between northern forces under major-general william t sherman and confederates commanded first by general joseph e johnston and then by general john b hood this campaign resulted in the capture of atlanta by the unionists prepared the way for sherman's march to the sea and in the opinion of many historians
made inevitable the re-election of Abraham Lincoln and the consequent determination of the North to see the war through to a final victory rather than accept a compromise with succession and slavery.
Spring 1864 marked the beginning of the war's fourth year.
In the Eastern Theater, three years of fighting had led to a virtual stalemate, with the opposing armies hovering between Washington and Richmond.
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