602 Series I Volume XXXIX-III Serial 79 - Allatoona Part III
| Page 602 | KY., SW. VA., TENN., MISS., ALA., AND N. GA. Chapter LI. |
NASHVILLE, TENN., November 2, 1864.
Major-General ROSECRANS,
Warrensburg, Mo.:
Your dispatch of 5 p. m. yesterday is received. Please send the troops forward as rapidly as possible, but they should come organized and prepared for the field. In the present aspect of affairs, I desire them sent to Johnsoville, the terminus of the Northwestern railroad, on the Tennessee River, via Paducah. But it would not be safe for them to attempt to reach that point by regiments; they should come in a body.
GEO. H. THOMAS,
Major-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding.
NASHVILLE, TENN., November 2, 1864.
Brigadier General W. D. WHIPPLE,
Chief of Staff:
GENERAL: The following copy of telegram just received is respectfully submitted for the information of the major-general commanding:
JOHNSONVILLE, TENN., November 2, 1864.
Brigadier General J. L. DONALDSON:
Colonel Thompson desires me to request to forward section of artillery with 500 men soon as possible. He expects to need them to-night.
H. HOWLAND,
Captain and Assistant Quartermaster.
I send the 500 men and section of artillery to-night.
Very respectfully,
J. L. DONALDSON,
Chief Quartermaster, Department of the Cumberland.
JOHNSONVILLE, TENN., November 2, 1864.
General J. L. DONALDSON,
Chief Quartermaster:
Lieutenant Commander E. M. King, with gun-boats 29 and 32, proceeded down the river this p. m., and six miles below met the 55 and transport Venus coming for this place, and after thirty minutes fight the Venus was disabled and fell into our hands. She is now at out levee. We captured on her two 20-pounder Parrotts, with over 200 rounds of ammunition for them.
H. HOWLAND,
Captain and Assistant Quartermaster.
CHATTANOOGA, November 2, 1864.
Major-General SHERMAN:
Three thousand of General Schofield's troops are on the march between Dalton and Ringgold. Cox's command is at Dalton. FIFTY-six car-loads are moving from Resaca and will be here to-night. The balance of the troops will leave Resaca by rail in the morning. Schofield is at Resaca.
JAS. B. STEEDMAN,
Major-General.
| Page 602 | KY., SW. VA., TENN., MISS., ALA., AND N. GA. Chapter LI. |
- Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for March 27 to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
- Following the Underground Railroad Route By Bicycle
- March is Women's History Month! Read the fascinating accounts of women spies hiding coded messages in women's hair, conductors of the Underground Railroad, soldiers disguised as men, surgeons, and advisors to the President!
- Teachers tackle race, economic disparity and history
- The President's Hymn: 'Give Thanks All Ye People'
- Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War
- Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation in a divided time: ‘one heart and one voice by the whole American People’
- What Abraham Lincoln found reading the Book of Job amid civil war
- Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
- Who was Henry Benning, for whom Fort Benning in Columbus was named?
- Fort Gordon Army Base: Who was John Brown Gordon?
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
- How to Reframe the Civil War in the Classroom
- Man scores Abraham Lincoln autograph in box of trading cards
- Native Americans' role in the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- An escaped slave was the 'Florence Nightingale’ of Indiana's Civil War regiment
- A Southern Democrat survived impeachment trap and came to be in charge of Reconstruction
- New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments