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Identifier: battleofatlantao01dodg (find matches)
Title: The battle of Atlanta and other campaigns, addresses, etc.
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Dodge, Grenville Mellen, 1831-1916
Subjects: Atlanta Campaign, 1864
Publisher: Council Bluffs, Ia., The Monarch Printing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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m,not a single detachment that I remember of was captured in itsl)l(Kk-)iouse or stockade. With the small force we had it wouldhave been impossible to maintain our mail, telegraph and overlandroutes successfully, if it had not been for our system of block-liousesand stockades, dotted for thousands of miles over each of the over-land Ioiites. It is evidtnt from our experience in the West that ourblock-house and stockade system of defending our lines of commu-nication was a great success, not only as against raids of cavalry, butfrom attacks of infantry and artillery, and saved to us a very largeforce for the field. I left on the line of the railway from ISFashvilleto Athens during the Atlanta campaign only two Eegiments ofnegroes, taking with me my entire Corps, and without the block-liouses to defend the lines from Nashville to Stevenson and Steven-son to Atlanta, it would have taken a thousand men withouthldck-hoiise protection for every hnudjed required with it. GrRENVILLE M. DODGE.
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1 TO THE MEMORY OF SAMUEL DAVIS .Moiuimeiit tlvc-ted in Nashville. Teuu., to Samuel Davis, Confederate Spyexecuted hy order of (Teiioial Dodee. at Pulaski. Tenn.. in 1864. AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR Execution of the Confederate Spy, Samuel DavisAT Pulaski, Tenn., November, 1863 Xkw VoKK. .I line l.Mll. 1S!»:. To the Editor of Tlir Confnlrralr V,Iemit : In fiilfllhueiit of niy proinisc to ^iw you iii\ ivtollcctioiis ofSam Davis, (wjio was hung as a s;)y in Xoxcinbei. ISii;;, at Pulas-ki. Tciui..) I desire to say that in wiitiug of matters wliifli oc-cunvd tliirty-fonr years ago one is apt to make mistakes as tominor details; l)ut tlie principal facts were such that they im-pressed themselves upon my mind so that I can speak of them witlisome certaint). When General (Irant ordered General Sherman (whose headof column -was near East port, on the Temiessee Kiver) to dropeverything and l)ring his army to Ghattanooga, my Corps (the Six-teenth) was then located at Goiintli. ^Fiss., and I hroug

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