Identifier: mountaincampaign01brow (find matches)
Title: The mountain campaigns in Georgia : or, War scenes on the W. & A
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Brown, Joseph M., 1851-1932 Western & Atlantic Railroad
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Publisher: (Buffalo, N.Y. : Art-Printing works of Matthews, Northrup & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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eral positions was maintained from the batteries on the crest of themountain, with the idea of distracting the attention of the Federals, and leading to thebelief that possibly a sortie was contemplated from some portion of the Confederate lines. During the afternoon of July 2d, the Confederates withdrew their guns fromKennesaw Mountain. Major Storrs, of General Frenchs command, who was in partialcharge, describes this feat as follows; It had been predicted that our batteries could not be safely withdrawn in case of retreat.An order came one day to remove them between sundown and dark; or else spike the guns anddestroy the carriac^es Routes were trimmed out straight down immediately in rear of each section,and every -un arrived at the base of the mountain by dark, without attracting a single shot fromthe enemy We had been keeping our embrasures covered with brush to conceal our movementswhen preparing to deliver a shot, so that everything was hidden. On the left, the upper part of a \
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68 MOUNTAIN CAMPAIGNS IN GEORGIA, mans body while standing, could be seen by the enemy, and so Lieutenants Harris and Murphy,of Gnibors battery, with their men, crawled on their hands and knees while withdrawing the leftsection and lowered those two pieces over a declivity by means of ropes. From Marietta, Johnston fell back to a new position, which had been prepared byColonel Prestman. This consisted of what General Sherman calls one of the strongestpieces of field fortification he ever saw. It ran from the Chattahoochee River, south ofthe Western & Atlantic Railroad, up through the hill country, across it, thence joining theriver again some two or three miles above,—its entire length being several miles. Sherman thought that in thehurry of evacuation Johnstonsarmy would be in considerableconfusion ; hence, pressed his col-umns forward with great energy,to crush the Confederates, if possi-ble ; but it was soon demonstratedthat Johnston had preparedagainst this very contingency

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