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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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emy had scarcely begun to waverwhen his whole force fled in dismay, throwing away their arms, coats, andhats. We took from the enemy eighty-one prisoners, including three com-missioned officers. On the field, the scene of the battle, immense quantitiesof arms, coats, and blankets were found and destroyed b.v us. I had nomeans of ascertaining the enemys loss in killed and wounded, but from theevidence of the battle-field it must have been heavy. Florence M. Corxyj^.Colonel Tenth Missouri Caralrii. Commanding Cavalry Brigade. Colonel Cornyn was a very efficient cavalry officer and alwaysaccomplished whatever he was sent to do. He was an aggressivefighter, always attacking, no matter what the force before him,and had won a deserved standing as a Brigade commander. Whenhe was killed, by his Lieutenant-Colonel, Bowen, during the latterstrial before a court-martial on charges preferred by Colonel Cormn,there was a bitter personal dispute and enmity between themwhich came to this sad ending.
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THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE Address to the Army of the Tennessee Delivered at the National Encampment, G. A. R.Washington, D. C, October, 1902 By Major-General Grenville M. Dodge Coiiiradcs of ilie- Army of the Tennessee: On the 28th of August, 18G1, General U. S. Grant was as-signed to duty in command of the District of Southeast Missouri,with headquarters at Cairo, 111., and here commenced the organiza-tion and growth of the Army of the Tennessee. It remained underhis personal command, or as a uwit of his great Army, from thebeginning until the end of the war. except for two short intervals,one after the great Battle of Donelson, and the other after the great-er Battle of Shiloh, both of which he won, and gave the first greatlight and hope to our country; and it is hard noAv, after readingall the records, to understand the reasons for his being relieved. Itappears to have been done through a misunderstanding, and with nointention of doing injustice to General Grant. Following General

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