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THE BATTLE OF ALLATOONA NUMBER.
VOL. I.
Battle of Allatoona.
October sth, 1864.
From 7he Mountain Campaigns in
Georgia, or JFa r Scenes on the IF. <£• A.,
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description of the battle of Allatoona:
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BATTLE OF ALLATOONA. G-a.
Gen. S. G. French, At Allatoona Pass, on the Western & Atlantic Railroad. Gen. Jn<>. M. < orse,
Commanding Confederate States Forces. October 5, 1864. Commanding United States Forces.
The message, “ Hold the Fort for 1 am coming! ” signalled from Kennesaw Mountain to these heights, gave rise to the famous gospel hymn.
army being concentrated principally
on its left, near the railroad, and cov
ered by its long line of entrenchments,
the Confederates abandoned Allatoo
na and Acworth, and fell back to a
new position, near Kennesaw Moun
tain, its left wing resting on Lost
Mountain, and its right extending
oast of the Western & Atlantic Rail
road and behind Noonday Creek.
Os this change of base, General
Sherman says:
On the Ist ot June, General Mc-
Pherson closed in upon the right, and,
without attempting further to carry
the enemy’s strong position at New
Hope Church, I held our general right
in close contact with it, gradually,
carefully, and steadily working by the
left, until our strong infantry lines
had reached and secured possession of
all the wagon roads between New
Hope, Allatoona and Acworth, when
I dispatched Generals Garrard’s and
Stoneman’s divisions of cavalry into
Allatoona, the first round by the west
ATLANTA, CA., MAY, 1886.
■ end of the pass, and the latter by the
direct road. Both reached their des-
I tination without opposition, and or
ders were at once given to repair the
railroad forward from Kingston to
Allatoona, embracing the bridge
across the Etowah River.
Thus the real object ot my move on
Dallas was accomplished, and on the
4th of June I was preparing to draw
off from New Hope Church, and to
take nosition on the railroad in front
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of Allatoona, when, General Johnston
himself having evacuated his position,
we effected the change without further
battle, and moved to the railroad, oc
cupying it from Allatoona and Ac
worth forward to Big Shanty, in sight '
of the famous Kennesaw Mountain. <
With the drawn battle ofNew Hope
’ Church, and our occupation of the
■ natural fortress of Allatoona, termin
-1 ated the month of May, and the first
‘ stage of the campaign.—(Sherman’s
Memoirs, Vol. I, pages 46-49.)
Thus fell Allatoona, which General
Sherman calls “ the gate through the
last, or most eastern (western?) spur
of the Alleghanies.” He fortified it
strongly, with a fort on each side of
the pass through which the Western &
Atlantic Railroad runs, about 120 feet
below, and made it his secondary base
of supplies, with Acworth as the’Jplace
of issue.
NO. 5.