CHAPTER L.

THE ATLANTA (GEORGIA) CAMPAIGH- CONTINUED.

May 1- September 8, 1864.

PART III.*

SUMMARY OF TE PRICIPAL EVENTS.+

May 1, 1864.- Skirmish at Stone Church.

2, 1864.- Skirmish at Lee's Cross- Roads, near Tunnel Hill.

Skirmish near Ringgold Gap.

3, 1864.- Skirmish at Catoosa Springs.

Skirmish at Red Clay.

Skirmish at Chickamauga Creek.

4, 1864.- Major General Frank P. Blair, jr., assumes command of the Seventeenth Army Corps.

Skirmish on the Varnell's Station Road.

5, 1864.- Skirmish near Tunnel Hill.

6-7, 1864.- Skirmishes at Tunnel Hill.

7, 1864.- Skirmish at Varnell's Station.

Skirmish near Nickajack Gap.

8-11, 1864.- Demonstratin against Rocky Face Ridge, with combats at Buzzard Roost or Mill Creek Gap, and Dug Gap.

8-13, 1864.- Demonstration against Resaca, with combats at Snake Creek Gap, Sugar Valley, and near Resaca.

9-13, 1864.- Demonstration against Dalton, with combats near Varnell's Station (9th and 12th) and at Dalton(13th).

13, 1864.- Skirmish at Tilton.

14-15, 1864.- Battle of Resaca.

15, 1864.- Skirmish at Armuchee Creek.

Skirmish near Rome.

16, 1864.- Skirmish near Calhoun.

Action at Rome (or Parker's) Cross- Roads.

Skirmish at Floyd's Spring.

17, 1864.- Engagement at Adairsville.

Action at Rome.

Affair at Madison Station, Ala.

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*Embraces reports of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Army Corps (Army of the Tennessee), and of the Confederate Army.

+Of some of the minor events noted in this Summary no circumstantial reports are on file. All such are designated in the Index.

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