428 Series I Volume XXXVIII-V Serial 76 - The Atlanta Campaign Part V
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HOWARD'S HEADQUARTERS, August 8, 1864.
(Received 2.50 p.m.)
Major-General SCHOFIELD:
I have sent the Ninth Illinois Cavalry* down on our right flank to watch the movements of the enemy and guard against any attempt to get in our rear.
O. O. HOWARD,
Major-General.
Tell me of what service I can be to you.
O. O. HOWARD.
HOWARD'S HEADQUARTERS, August 8, 1864.
General SHERMAN:
I have ordered what little reserve I have to be held in hand on the Green's Ferry road. I will go to General Schofield's headquarters. Please communicate with me there, if there are any orders.
O. O. HOWARD,
Major-General.
HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, In the Field, near Atlanta, August 8, 1864.Major-General HOWARD:
There is a wooded hill to General Corse's left and front, on which I was told General Williams' skirmishers were yesterday. It seemed to be on the south of Proctor's Creek. That hill would be a strong left flank to you. In front of General Corse's left center seemed an orchard near to a rebel work, and it may be within the re-entrant of their salients, but if we could get a battery near there it would make sad havoc in Atlanta.
W. T. SHERMAN,
Major-General, Commanding.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE, August 8, 1864.Major-General SHERMAN:
I am just starting to reconnoiter that position.
O. O. HOWARD,
Major-General.
HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, In the Field, near Atlanta, August 8, 1864.
General HOWARD:
General Schofield reports his line close up to the rebel lines from your right to the crossing of the south fork to Utoy, which he thinks is one mile from East Point; the thinks he sees the railroad but if so, it is the West Point railroad, which is not the one we want. His line gives General Hascall's division in excess, one brigade of which is across Utoy and on the ridge which he is fortifying. He says the enemy manifested considerable resistance, but if he is allowed, to fortify south of that fork of Utoy,they will not attack that flank, and will
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*Mounted infantry.
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