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ARMY OPERATIONS (1864). 



tenant-General S. D. Lee, 62; report of the 

 enemy, 62 ; advance of a force against Colum- 

 bus, 62 ; demand for its surrender and refusal 

 of General Buford, 62. 



Operations in North Carolina, 62 ; capture 

 of the Federal post at Bachelor's Creek, 62 ; 

 advance toward Newbern, 63 ; destruction of 

 the gunboat Underwriter, 63 ; report of Gen- 

 eral Picket, 63 ; Plymouth, 63 ; how defended, 

 63 ; attack of the enemy, 63 ; destruction of 

 the gunboats Southfield and Miami by the Al- 

 bemarle, 63 ; surrender of Plymouth, 63 ; an- 

 nouncement of General Peck, 63; report of 

 General Hoke, 65; order of General Palmer 

 relative to incendiaries, 65. 



Desultory operations in Virginia, 65 ; cap- 

 ture of trains at New Creek, 65 ; headquarters 

 of General Meade, 65 ; position of Lee's army, 

 65 ; General Kilpatrick starts for a dash upon 

 Richmond, 65; contemporaneous movements, 

 65 ; advance of Kilpatrick, 66 ; detachment 

 under Colonel Dahlgren, 66; encounters the 

 enemy, 66; Dahlgren killed, 66; address and 

 orders published in the Richmond papers, 66. 



Act of Congress creating a lieutenant-gen- 

 eralship, 67; General Grant appointed, 67; 

 address of the President on presenting his 

 commission, 67; reply of Grant, 67; orders 

 transferring commanders, 67; order of Gen- 

 eral Grant, 67; order of Secretary of War, 

 reorganizing army corps, 68; order of Gen- 

 eral Meade, .68 ; position of General Grant 

 with the Army of the Potomac, 68. 



General Sherman assumes command, 68; 

 plan of the campaign, 68 ; his force, 69 ; to- 

 pography of Georgia, 69 ; Atlanta, its position 

 and 'importance, 69; defences, 69; table of 

 railroad stations, 71; movement to compel 

 General Johnston to evacuate Dalton, 71; 

 demonstration in Johnston's front, .71 ; failure 

 of the flanking movement, 71; position of 

 Resaca, 71 ; next movement of Sherman, 72 ; 

 evacuation of Dalton by General Johnston, 

 72 ; operations before Resaca, 72 ; movement 

 of Johnston to turn the Federal left flank, 72 ; 

 further operations before Resaca, 73; aban- 

 doned by Johnston, 73; movements in ad- 

 vance by General Sherman's corps, 73 ; Alla- 

 toona Pass, 74 ; its position, 74 ; held by Johns- 

 ton, 74; movements of Sherman, 74; New 

 Hope Church, 74 ; struggle for its possession, 

 74 ; abandoned by Johnston, 75 ; results thus 

 far, 75; Kenesaw Mountain, 75; its impor- 



tance, 75 ; fbrce of General Johnston, 75 i 

 order of Sherman's advance, 75; position of 

 Johnston, 76; abandons the works on Lost 

 Mountain, 76; further operations, 76; state- 

 ment of General Sherman, 76; attack on 

 Johnston's position, 77; its failure, 77; next 

 movement of Sherman, 77; evacuation of 

 Kenesaw by General Johnston, 77 ; Marietta 

 occupied by General Sherman, 77 ; new posi- 

 tion of Johnston, 77; attempt of General 

 Sherman to turn his right flank, 78; retreat 

 of General Johnston, 78 ; new movements of 

 Sherman, 78 ; crossing the Chattahoochee, 78 ; 

 manoeuvres approaching Atlanta, 78; General 

 Johnston turns his command over to General 

 Hood, 79; his farewell address, 79; General 

 Hood's address on assuming command, 79 ; 

 movements around Atlanta, 79, 80; battles, 

 81, 82; losses, 82; cooperating movements 

 ordered by General Sherman against the ene- 

 my's lines of communication, 82; railroads 

 connecting Atlanta with the southwest cut, 

 82 ; destruction of the Georgia Railroad, 82 ; 

 Macon & Western Railroad crippled, 82 ; 

 movement of General Stoneman on Macon, 

 83 ; compelled to surrender, 84 ; raid .against 

 the Macon & Western road, 84; operations 

 before Atlanta, 84 ; failure to dislodge Hood, 

 84; flanking movement of General Sherman 

 to the right, 84 ; plan of General Sherman to 

 move his whole army upon the communica- 

 tions of Atlanta, 85 ; his movements, 85 ; re- 

 sistance of the enemy, 86 ; their repulse, 86 ; 

 General Sherman places himself between At- 

 lanta and General Hardee's corps, 86 ; conster- 

 nation at Atlanta, 86 ; its evacuation, 86 ; de- 

 struction of property, 86 ; its capture by Sher- 

 man, 87 ; Federal losses in the campaign, 87 ; 

 losses of the enemy, 87 ; movement of Hood, 

 87; General Wheeler's raid upon Sherman's 

 line of communication, 87 ; President Lincoln's 

 announcement of the capture of Atlanta, 88 ; 

 Sherman's address to his troops, 88; orders 

 for the departure of all civilians, 88 ; General 

 Hood's reply to a proposal for a ten days' 

 truce, 88 ; also letter to the Mayor of Atlanta, 

 89 ; reply of General Sherman to General 

 Hood, 89 ; the truce agreed upon, 89 ; final 

 appeal of the civic authorities to General 

 Sherman, 90 ; his reply to the appeal, 90 ; 

 another announcement, 91 ; his letter to the 

 Louisville agent of the New York press, 91. 

 Reorganization of the Army of the Poto- 



