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t MAP" ® sACSOh / ■ «&, ■P -‘ 1 A —* a * © « » »(g> « • - 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., weave permitted to copy the following description of the battle of Allatoona: On the 4th of June, the Federal - ‘.jW&iiSts. T : a ■ ' ■ ~ E. ■ ’ OUPW? W ' 7 -y v fSMB --u pF® 5 ”'* /; ■ ' w >. : —'"-’ ' V '" ■ ..:*.. " r*’**:-* . . ■*“■ .. . :4 ' S ?SBV a. - '.. -4' -"' ' ‘ ' ■•■*■•' .' W : ‘ ' •'x ii :W3MMrWKrS JWIS feafc w << < 1 gbOilß " BL ' >I WSyTWI i %OL&,-- ' v^ x . v^ v \' X> . A ■' v* ' . , .’ *?.*rV4*J&-.< \. •*-^\ -x wrTn f "i?\’ •<.''4'.^ , 4^w^W-^^F'W^CT t|! w- w W'- ;< ;j; ->-k "V." «•'■■’.'’< ■ » - ' - . ...........,.. 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 X 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.