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Posted on 10/3/14 at 9:40 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Posted on 10/3/14 at 9:40 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Tuesday, 4 October 1864
Lieutenant General John Bell Hood, CSA, had experienced his difficulties with pitched battles, either losing most of them or withdrawing from outflanked positions before fighting even began. He was finally having success with his mission to slow Major General William Tecumseh Sherman’s march across the South by attacking his garrisons in the rear. Hood’s men were in firm control of the Chattanooga-Atlanta Railroad lines, and skirmishing was taking place at Moon’s Station, Lost Mountain and Acworth. Sherman was getting reports pleading for relief, and today he decided to provide it. Leaving only one corps to hold Atlanta, he started back up the line to deal with Hood. He established new headquarters at Kennesaw Mountain and got to work.
The CSS Florida, commanded by Lieutenant Charles Manigault Morris, arrived in Bahia, Brazil, for provisions and coal. Within only three days, the Florida's brilliant career as a commerce raider would be closed.
A Federal reconnaissance started from Little Rock toward Monticello and eventually to Mount Elba, Arkansas.
Skirmishes broke out at and near Bayou Sara, Louisiana.
A Federal expedition travelled from Natchez to Woodville, Mississippi, and faced skirmishes along the way.
Skirmishes occurred near Memphis, Tennessee, and at Salem, Virginia.
President Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet welcomes the recently appointed Postmaster General of the Union, William Dennison, replacing Montgomery Blair.
Confederate partisans destroyed the lighthouse at the entrance from Albemarle to Croatan Sound, North Carolina. Commander William H. Macomb, piloting the USS Shamrock, reported: "It was blown up and afterwards set on fire so as to make the destruction complete."
Major General Sterling Price’s Confederates began withdrawing from the St. Louis area due to increased Federal resistance; fighting occurred near Richwoods.
Lieutenant General John Bell Hood, CSA, had experienced his difficulties with pitched battles, either losing most of them or withdrawing from outflanked positions before fighting even began. He was finally having success with his mission to slow Major General William Tecumseh Sherman’s march across the South by attacking his garrisons in the rear. Hood’s men were in firm control of the Chattanooga-Atlanta Railroad lines, and skirmishing was taking place at Moon’s Station, Lost Mountain and Acworth. Sherman was getting reports pleading for relief, and today he decided to provide it. Leaving only one corps to hold Atlanta, he started back up the line to deal with Hood. He established new headquarters at Kennesaw Mountain and got to work.
The CSS Florida, commanded by Lieutenant Charles Manigault Morris, arrived in Bahia, Brazil, for provisions and coal. Within only three days, the Florida's brilliant career as a commerce raider would be closed.
A Federal reconnaissance started from Little Rock toward Monticello and eventually to Mount Elba, Arkansas.
Skirmishes broke out at and near Bayou Sara, Louisiana.
A Federal expedition travelled from Natchez to Woodville, Mississippi, and faced skirmishes along the way.
Skirmishes occurred near Memphis, Tennessee, and at Salem, Virginia.
President Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet welcomes the recently appointed Postmaster General of the Union, William Dennison, replacing Montgomery Blair.
Confederate partisans destroyed the lighthouse at the entrance from Albemarle to Croatan Sound, North Carolina. Commander William H. Macomb, piloting the USS Shamrock, reported: "It was blown up and afterwards set on fire so as to make the destruction complete."
Major General Sterling Price’s Confederates began withdrawing from the St. Louis area due to increased Federal resistance; fighting occurred near Richwoods.
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Posted on 10/4/14 at 10:40 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Wednesday, 5 October 1864
The Army of Tennessee under Major General Samuel Gibbs French was locked in mortal combat with the Federal garrison under Brigadier General John Murray Corse at the railroad pass at Allatoona, Georgia. With about 2000 men on each side, the fighting was so fierce that the casualty rates were appalling: 706 Union and almost 800 Confederates were killed or wounded, about 40% of all troops involved. Major General William Tecumseh Sherman could see the smoke of the battle from his headquarters on Kennesaw Mountain, 18 miles away. At the end of the day, French received a report that a message had come to Corse from Sherman to hold on because a large relief force was coming to hit French in the rear. The report was false but French could not know this, and consequently pulled out. An evangelist, Philip Paul Bliss, on hearing the story of this battle wrote a hymn, “Hold the Fort, For We Are Coming” which was popular for decades after the War.
Full report: After losing the city of Atlanta, Confederate General John Bell Hood this morning attacks Union General William T. Sherman's supply line at Allatoona Pass, Georgia. Hood's men could not take the Union stronghold, and they were ultimately forced to retreat into Alabama.
Hood took charge of the Confederate army in late July 1864, replacing the defensive-minded Joseph Eggleston Johnston. Confederate President Jefferson Davis had been frustrated with Johnston's constant retreating against a force more than two and one-half times his own army, so he appointed Hood, who was known for his aggressive style. Hood immediately attacked Sherman's much larger army three times: at Peachtree Creek, Atlanta and Ezra Church. All of the attacks were unsuccessful, and they almost completely destroyed the Confederate army's offensive capabilities.
After evacuating Atlanta in early September 1864, Hood planned to draw Sherman back northward. Hood did not have the troop strength to move against Sherman, so he swung west of Atlanta and moved against the railroad that supplied the Yankee army from Chattanooga, Tennessee. At first, this worked well. Retracing Sherman's advance on Atlanta, Hood's men began to tear up the Western and Atlantic Railroad. Starting on September 29, the Rebels destroyed eight miles of track and captured 600 prisoners. Hood sent General Alexander Stewart's corps to secure Allatoona, site of a large Federal supply depot.
Sherman realized the threat to his lines and dispatched a brigade under General John Corse to secure the area. Corse's 2,000 men arrived at Allatoona before one of Stewart's divisions, led by Samuel French, attacked on October 5. French also had about 2,000 troops, but the Yankees overcame any difference with their new Henry repeating rifles. French attacked and pushed the Federals back at first, but Allatoona was easily defended. By midday, French realized that he could not take the depot. He withdrew and rejoined Hood's army. French lost 897 men, while the Union lost 706. Realizing that his army was in no shape to fight, Hood took his force west into Alabama. In November, he would invade Tennessee.
The USS Mobile, under Acting Lieutenant Pierre Giraud, seized the blockade running British schooner Annie Virdon south of Velasco, Texas, with a cargo of cotton.
A boat expedition commanded by Acting Ensign Henry Eason, from the USS Restless, destroyed large salt works on St. Andrew's Bay, Florida, along with 150 buildings used to house the compound and its employees. Salt works, providing as they did both a foodstuff and an invaluable preservative, were a constant target for fast-hitting Union boat expeditions aimed at drying up the source of intended supplies for Southern armies.
President Jefferson Davis addressed a crowd in Augusta, Georgia, accompanied by Generals Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, William Joseph Hardee, and others. Davis said, “Never before was I so confident that energy, harmony, and determination would rid the country of its enemy and give to the women of the land that peace their good deeds have so well deserved… we must beat Sherman, we must march into Tennessee… we must push the enemy back to the banks of the Ohio.”
In Indiana, Federal military authorities arrested Lambdin Purdy Milligan for conspiring against the United States, giving aid and comfort to the Confederates, and inciting insurrection. A military tribunal unlawfully convicted Milligan in December and sentenced him to death in June 1865. He was granted a presidential reprieve, and the Supreme Court ultimately ruled in Ex Parte Milligan (1866) that military authorities had no right to try civilians outside the actual theater of war.
Major General Sterling Price’s Confederates fought along the Osage River in Missouri.
President Lincoln conferred with navy officials about naval prisoners. Lincoln’s secretary John Nicolay headed west to gauge election prospects in Missouri.
Federals operated near Tunica Landing and Natchez, Mississippi.
Skirmishes occurred at Alexander's Creek, near St. Francisville and at Atchafalaya, Louisiana.
A Union expedition originated from Baton Rouge, to Clinton, Greensburg, Osyka, and Camp Moore, Louisiana, where the Federals capture 4,000 pounds of bacon, 12 barrels of whiskey, 100 dozen pairs of boots and shoes, 2,000 pounds of salt, and other materiel.
Lieutenant General Hardee assumes command of the Confederate Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, as he and Lieutenant General John Bell Hood could not get along, and so are separated by President Davis.
The Army of Tennessee under Major General Samuel Gibbs French was locked in mortal combat with the Federal garrison under Brigadier General John Murray Corse at the railroad pass at Allatoona, Georgia. With about 2000 men on each side, the fighting was so fierce that the casualty rates were appalling: 706 Union and almost 800 Confederates were killed or wounded, about 40% of all troops involved. Major General William Tecumseh Sherman could see the smoke of the battle from his headquarters on Kennesaw Mountain, 18 miles away. At the end of the day, French received a report that a message had come to Corse from Sherman to hold on because a large relief force was coming to hit French in the rear. The report was false but French could not know this, and consequently pulled out. An evangelist, Philip Paul Bliss, on hearing the story of this battle wrote a hymn, “Hold the Fort, For We Are Coming” which was popular for decades after the War.
Full report: After losing the city of Atlanta, Confederate General John Bell Hood this morning attacks Union General William T. Sherman's supply line at Allatoona Pass, Georgia. Hood's men could not take the Union stronghold, and they were ultimately forced to retreat into Alabama.
Hood took charge of the Confederate army in late July 1864, replacing the defensive-minded Joseph Eggleston Johnston. Confederate President Jefferson Davis had been frustrated with Johnston's constant retreating against a force more than two and one-half times his own army, so he appointed Hood, who was known for his aggressive style. Hood immediately attacked Sherman's much larger army three times: at Peachtree Creek, Atlanta and Ezra Church. All of the attacks were unsuccessful, and they almost completely destroyed the Confederate army's offensive capabilities.
After evacuating Atlanta in early September 1864, Hood planned to draw Sherman back northward. Hood did not have the troop strength to move against Sherman, so he swung west of Atlanta and moved against the railroad that supplied the Yankee army from Chattanooga, Tennessee. At first, this worked well. Retracing Sherman's advance on Atlanta, Hood's men began to tear up the Western and Atlantic Railroad. Starting on September 29, the Rebels destroyed eight miles of track and captured 600 prisoners. Hood sent General Alexander Stewart's corps to secure Allatoona, site of a large Federal supply depot.
Sherman realized the threat to his lines and dispatched a brigade under General John Corse to secure the area. Corse's 2,000 men arrived at Allatoona before one of Stewart's divisions, led by Samuel French, attacked on October 5. French also had about 2,000 troops, but the Yankees overcame any difference with their new Henry repeating rifles. French attacked and pushed the Federals back at first, but Allatoona was easily defended. By midday, French realized that he could not take the depot. He withdrew and rejoined Hood's army. French lost 897 men, while the Union lost 706. Realizing that his army was in no shape to fight, Hood took his force west into Alabama. In November, he would invade Tennessee.
The USS Mobile, under Acting Lieutenant Pierre Giraud, seized the blockade running British schooner Annie Virdon south of Velasco, Texas, with a cargo of cotton.
A boat expedition commanded by Acting Ensign Henry Eason, from the USS Restless, destroyed large salt works on St. Andrew's Bay, Florida, along with 150 buildings used to house the compound and its employees. Salt works, providing as they did both a foodstuff and an invaluable preservative, were a constant target for fast-hitting Union boat expeditions aimed at drying up the source of intended supplies for Southern armies.
President Jefferson Davis addressed a crowd in Augusta, Georgia, accompanied by Generals Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, William Joseph Hardee, and others. Davis said, “Never before was I so confident that energy, harmony, and determination would rid the country of its enemy and give to the women of the land that peace their good deeds have so well deserved… we must beat Sherman, we must march into Tennessee… we must push the enemy back to the banks of the Ohio.”
In Indiana, Federal military authorities arrested Lambdin Purdy Milligan for conspiring against the United States, giving aid and comfort to the Confederates, and inciting insurrection. A military tribunal unlawfully convicted Milligan in December and sentenced him to death in June 1865. He was granted a presidential reprieve, and the Supreme Court ultimately ruled in Ex Parte Milligan (1866) that military authorities had no right to try civilians outside the actual theater of war.
Major General Sterling Price’s Confederates fought along the Osage River in Missouri.
President Lincoln conferred with navy officials about naval prisoners. Lincoln’s secretary John Nicolay headed west to gauge election prospects in Missouri.
Federals operated near Tunica Landing and Natchez, Mississippi.
Skirmishes occurred at Alexander's Creek, near St. Francisville and at Atchafalaya, Louisiana.
A Union expedition originated from Baton Rouge, to Clinton, Greensburg, Osyka, and Camp Moore, Louisiana, where the Federals capture 4,000 pounds of bacon, 12 barrels of whiskey, 100 dozen pairs of boots and shoes, 2,000 pounds of salt, and other materiel.
Lieutenant General Hardee assumes command of the Confederate Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, as he and Lieutenant General John Bell Hood could not get along, and so are separated by President Davis.
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