W. H. D. Rouse
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the movement began that afternoon and by nightfall on the twenty seventh howard's men were west of atlanta early the following day the advance was resumed the only effective opposition came from a small body of confederate cavalry
hood was aware of sherman's new manoeuvre and determined to block it by sending the corps of lee and stewart west along the road to the little settlement of licht skillet by noon the opposing forces were in the area of a meeting-house known as ezra church about two and a half miles west of atlanta the confederates had been ordered to attack and prevent the northerners from crossing the road
and lee and stewart sent their men forward in a series of assaults against the fifteenth corps the federals had not had time to entrench but they had piled up barricades of logs and church benches
and these afforded some protection.
Our skirmishers, overpowered by numbers, were compelled to fall back to the main line, wrote a Union officer, followed at an interval of but a few paces by dense columns of the enemy, which, covered as they were by the undergrowth, had advanced within forty or fifty paces of our lines, when a terrific and destructive fire was opened upon them, and was continued steadily until their advance was checked at the distance of some
twenty to thirty paces their lines were cut down disordered and driven back some distance when they rallied and again came boldly forward to the charge but under the murderous fire of our rifles were no more able to disorder or discompose our lines than before they gained a little ground several times only to lose it inch by inch after the most terrible fighting on both sides
after a very short interval which did not amount to a cessation of the battle new and largely augmented columns of the enemy came pouring in upon us with the same results however as before although their colors were planted within twenty paces
for four or five hours the assaults continued but the confederates attacked piecemeal separate units rushing forward rather than striking a unified blow and all their desperate courage was not enough to overcome this handicap the southern army is estimated to have suffered about five thousand casualties in this battle federal losses were reported at six hundred end of part five
part six of the road past kenesaw the atlanta campaign of eighteen sixty four by richard manning mcmurray part six
the month of august although he had inflicted heavy losses on the southerners sherman seems to have become convinced that he would not be able to capture atlanta by his customary tactics hood had constructed a line of trenches that ran from atlanta southward to east point
protecting the railroads the confederate fortifications were too strong to be attacked and too long to be encircled sherman brought up a battery of siege guns and shelled the city the southern artillery in atlanta replied and for several weeks helpless citizens lived in their cellars and scurried about amid bursting shells as the artillery duels started fires and smashed buildings killing soldiers and civilians indiscriminately
the federal commander also decided to try cavalry raids in the hope that his horsemen could reach the railroads below atlanta and by cutting them force hood to evacuate the city late in july two expeditions were launched one under brigadier-general george stoneman was to swing to the east to macdonough lovejoy station and macon tearing up the railroad and destroying supplies as it went
these cavalrymen were then to strike southwest to americas where they hoped to free the thirty thousand northerners held in the prisoner of war camp at andersonville the other expedition under brigadier general edward m mccook was to operate to the west and join stone men in attacking the confederate lines of communication south of atlanta
from the start both raids were badly managed much of the blame must rest upon stoneman who chose to go directly to macon rather than follow orders the scattered federals were faced by a well-handled confederate force led by wheeler except for stoneman's column the northern horsemen were driven back
to sherman's lines after destroying some confederate supplies stowman reached the vicinity of macon where on july thirty one he was attacked by the southerners and captured along with five hundred of his men somehow during these busy weeks sherman found time to write a letter to miss emily hoffman of baltimore the fiance of the dead mcpherson
i owe you heartfelt sympathy he wrote adding i yield to none of earth but yourself the right to excel me in lamentations for our dead hero better the bride of mcpherson dead than the wife of the richest merchant of baltimore
sherman described the fallen leader of the army of the tennessee who had been a close friend as well as a trusted subordinate as the personification of knighthood and added that while life lasts i will delight in the memory of that bright particular star
on august tenth hood perhaps thinking that the defeat of stoneman and mccook had weakened sherman's cavalry struck out at his opponent's line of supply he sent cavalry commander wheeler with four thousand men to destroy the railroad north of marietta and to disrupt sherman's communication with the north
although wheeler was able to make some temporary breaks in the line he was unable to reduce substantially the flow of supplies to sherman's armies the federal commander had built strong fortifications at the most strategic points on the railroad and his efficient repair crews quickly rebuilt those parts of the track that wheeler could reach and damage
eventually the confederate cavalry drifted into tennessee and did not rejoin hood until the campaign was over many students of the war regard wheeler's mission as a mistake because the absence of the cavalry deprived hood of the best means of keeping posted on sherman's activities
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