W. H. D. Rouse
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The first of Hood's efforts to cripple the federal
had failed, although at the time some southerners saw it as a blow that slowed federal progress.
Northern casualties in the Battle of Peachtree Creek were reported at 1,600.
Estimates of Southern losses, mostly from federal sources, range from 2,500 to 10,000.
It seems now that 4,700 is a reliable estimate of Confederate casualties.
The battle later became a source of controversy between Hood and Hardy.
Hood, smarting under the criticism of Joseph E. Johnston and others,
blamed the failure to crush thomas on hardee the corps commander hood charged had failed to attack at the proper time and had not driven home the assault hardee who had outranked hood when they were both lieutenant-generals and who may have been disgruntled at serving under his former junior replied that the delay was caused by hood's decision to shift the line to the right and that the assault had not been as vigorously executed as it normally would have been
because Hood's late afternoon order to send reinforcements to the right had deprived the attackers of the unit that was to deliver the final blow.
Post-war commentators mostly favor Hardy, and a careful examination of the evidence supports this view.
The Battle of Atlanta After the Battle of Peachtree Creek, attention shifted to the eastern side of the city.
Hood determined to strike McPherson, who, on July 20 and 21,
had moved past Decatur and enchanted a line running north and south a few miles east of Atlanta.
The Confederate commander realized that he might march troops around the left of McPherson's position and attack him from the flank and rear.
He chose Hardy's corps to be the flanking column and planned to have Chettham's men attack the front of McPherson's army from the west, while Hardy struck from the south and east.
With luck, this sensible plan
could result in the defeat of a large part of sherman's forces late on the twenty first hardy's men withdrew from their advanced position north of atlanta and by midnight they were marching out of the city they were to move southward then turn and swing eastward and northward meanwhile the other southerners fell back to shorter lines where it was hoped they would be able to hold off the federals while hardy outflanked them
on the morning of july twenty two sherman found the southerners gone from his immediate front and concluded that atlanta had been abandoned however as his armies pushed forward they discovered that the defenders had only fallen back to a new position
the northern advance contracted the federal lines and the sixteenth corps of mcpherson's army was crowded out of place mcpherson ordered it to move to his extreme left thus at the time hardee was moving to that area mcpherson by chance was sending in reinforcements
Hardy's march was long and hard.
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