GENERAL: I have received your dispatches of last night. You may put in motion at once the Fifteenth Corps and trains for Roswell, leaving General Blair with such artillery and wagons as he may need to await the return of General Stoneman, and to make in t
Read MoreFrom Major General William T. Sherman to Lieutenant General U.S. Grant – July 12, 1864
DEAR GENERAL: I have written you but once since the opening of the campaign, but I report by telegraph to Halleck daily, and he furnishes you copy. My progress was slower than I calculated, from two chief causes, an uninterrupted rain from June 2 to about
Read MoreReports of Colonel Eli Long, Fourth Ohio Cavalry, commanding Second Brigade – July 12, 1864
CAPTAIN: Please find annexed a report of the operations of the Second Brigade, Second Cavalry Division, since leaving Decatur, Ala., on the 26th of May and up to the 1st of the present month, which I have the honor to forward for the information of the br
Read MoreFrom Major General William T. Sherman to Brigadier General Kenner Garrard – July 11, 1864
Certainly, by all means save the bridge above Roswell, and get me information of the lay of the country from it toward Stone Mountain.
W. T. SHERMAN,
Major-General, Commanding.
ROSWELL, July 11, 1864-8 p. m.
Major-General SHERMAN:
I have no
From Brigadier General John H. Kelly to Major E. S. Burford – July 10, 1864
Assistant Adjutant-General:
MAJOR: I have the honor to inform you that I have just arrived at this point with Dibrell’s brigade. Colonel Hannon reports all quiet in his front; he also reports the force which crossed at McAfee’s Bridge to have withdrawn