The telegraph has just announced the capture, by the rebel cavalry, of a drove of 1,000 cattle about Adairsville. Let General McCook have a determined pursuit and General Garrard a brigade ready to push across to and beyond Canton, to prevent the driving
Read MoreFrom Major General David S. Stanley to Major General William T. Sherman – August 14, 1864
Garrard’s cavalry occupies the reserve side of the old rebel works; they extend about half a mile from the Howard house.
Read MoreFrom William McNabb (citizen) to OFFICE PROVOST-MARSHAL-GENERAL – August 14, 1864
Says he is a citizen of Dalton, Ga.; has been in the employ of the Confederate Government on the Western and Atlantic Railroad for three years; has been at Griswold Station with rolling-stock of the road. Came through Atlanta and Decatur day before yester
Read MoreFrom Major General John M. Schofield to Major General William T. Sherman – August 14, 1864
Your dispatch is received, and I will order Colonel Garrard to move accordingly early in the morning and report to General Kilpatrick at Sandtown.
Read MoreFrom Major General John M. Schofield to Major General William T. Sherman – August 14, 1864
GENERAL: In accordance with the desire expressed by you yesterday to General Thomas, General Howard, and myself, I have the honor to submit the following plan of operations, having for its object to compel the enemy to abandon his works about Atlanta and
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