Identifier: lifedeedsofgener02nort (find matches)
Title: Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea ..
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 Generals
Publisher: Philadelphia, National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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munication also was kept up as thearmy had advanced. General Jefferson C. Davis had on the 17th marchedtoward Rome, at the confluence of the Oostanaulaand Etowah, fifteen miles west of Kingston. After asharp fight on the 19th he got possession of the town,several forts, eight or ten large guns, and large quan-tities of stores, as well as valuable mills and foundries Slierinan Hurrying- Forward. General Johnston retired upon Allatoona Pass, analmost impregnable position on the railroad, aboutfive miles south of the Etowah River. General Sher-man determined not even to attempt the pass infront, but to turn it. Accordingly, on the 23d, leavinggarrisons at Rome and Kingston, and carrying withhim in wagons supplies for twenty days, he put thearmy in motion for Dallas, a town about fifteen milessouth-south-west of Allatoona Pass and eighteenmiles direcdy west of Marietta, hoping by thus threat-ening Marietta to compel Johnston to evacuate theoass. The roads throuo^h the rucrored and densely
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iNESBORO MAP OF COUNTRY EF.T.VEEM CHATTANOOGA, TENN., ANl. ATLANTA CA- 403 404 GENERAL SHERMAN. wooded region to be traversed were few and bad, andhe march was necessarily slow. The movement and Its objects were soon detectedby Johnston, who also set his troops in motion towardDallas to protect the approaches to Marietta. In themarch upon Dallas, McPherson, holding- the Nationalright, made a detour south-westward by Van Wert,about fourteen miles west of Dallas, while Thomasmoved nearly due south, with Schofield on his left.On the 25th, Hookers corps, the advance of GeneralThomas, moving on the main road to Dallas, whennear Pumpkin Vine Creek met portions of Hoodsand Hardees corps, and a severe contest took placefor a position at New Hope Church, where threeroads meet from Ackworth, Marietta, and Dallas. The Eiieiny Intrenched. The enemy, however, having hastily thrown upearthworks, and night coming on accompanied byheavy rain, he retained possession of the roads.Hooker lost six hundre

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