W. H. D. Rouse
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first heard Aug 2026
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McPherson swung far to the west through Van Vert and then moved eastward toward Dallas.
thomas was in the center moving via stylesboro and burnt hickory schofield was on the left closest to the etowah the day was hot and the men suffered greatly from thirst nevertheless the federals made progress toward their objective and on the twenty fourth were closing in on dallas confederate cavalry soon discovered sherman's movement
and johnston took steps to meet it by evening of the twenty fourth the southerners held a line east of dallas which ran from southwest to northeast the key to the position was a crossroads at a methodist church named new hope hood's corps held this part of the line polk and hardee were to his left
on may twenty five some troops of thomas army ran up against hood's line at new hope church in a late afternoon battle fought under dark skies and rolling bursts of thunder thomas men made a series of gallant assaults against the southern line the federals met a withering hail of bullets and shells that quickly halted each advance
In this short engagement, Thomas lost about 1,500 men.
The Confederates suffered little during the battle and were elated at their success.
Sunrise on the 26th found both commanders working to position their men in the woods east of Dallas.
Except for skirmishing, there was little fighting during the day.
On the following day, Sherman attempted to defeat the right of the Southern line by a surprise attack.
in a battle known as pickett's mill the northerners were hurled back with about fifteen hundred casualties for the federals this engagement was one of the most desperate of the campaign one company of the forty first ohio regiment lost twenty of its twenty-two men
The 49th Ohio carried slightly over 400 men into the battle and lost 203 of them.
The commander of another regiment wrote that he lost a third of his men in the first few yards of the advance.
The rebel fire swept the ground like a hailstorm, wrote another Unionist, adding, this is surely not war, it is butchery.
A third Northerner noted in his diary that evening, Our men were slaughtered terribly.
Two brigades of infantry were almost cut to pieces.
The Southerners lost about 500 men.
Over the next few days, fighting continued almost incessantly.
Both sides made assaults with strongly reinforced skirmish lines, seeking to hold the enemy in position.
This type of combat was very tiring on the men.
one soldier wrote after a night battle oh god what a night they may tell of hell and its awful fires but the boys who went through the fight at dallas are pretty well prepared for any event this side of eternity
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