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However, weary mules delayed his progress and Confederate pickets watching from the opposite riverbank, kept him moving to Smith's Ferry six miles beyond.

On the afternoon of July 28, as soon as the last pontoon was in place, he hurried his men across the river. McCook and his raiders charged into Palmetto about p.

Continuing southeast, they rode all night. Shortly before dawn, they surprised and captured 1, Confederate supply wagons parked on either side of Fayetteville. Seeing no sign of Stoneman, McCook sent scouts north and east while the rest of his men began pulling down telegraph wires and tearing up track. His scouts soon returned and reported cavalry coming fast, but not Stoneman's. Reports of Stoneman's activity had Wheeler convinced the Yankees intended to cut the Macon railroad. Wheeler requested permission to pursue.

Hood agreed but wanted Wheeler to remain near, sending only the troops he could spare "to bring the raid Late on July 27, Wheeler was released to join the pursuit. Keeping only one regiment, Wheeler ordered Iverson to "follow Stoneman rapidly and attack him wherever found. Sorry, but we don't have a picture of this historical marker yet. Genesis in Steel: Railroads Build a City. Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, June Across the Chattahoochee July Three times Hood had tried to strike a knockout blow against Sherman's army or at least cripple it so badly that it would have to retreat.

Each time he had failed, in the process losing more men 11, than he could afford and intensifying the already strong reluctance of his remaining troops to charge an entrenched foe.

Nevertheless, he stopped Sherman from taking Atlanta and, for the time being, achieved the same sort of stalemate that Lee maintained at Richmond, where on July 30 his forces inflicted yet another bloody defeat on Grant in the Battle of the Crater.

If Hood could manage to hold on to Atlanta until the fall elections in the North, there was an excellent chance that the Northern public, despairing of victory, would repudiate Lincoln and his policy of Union through war and turn to the Democrats with their promise of Union through peace.

As July gave way to August, the Democrats confidently predicted such an outcome and many Republicans feared that they were right. Fully aware that unless he won on the battlefront the war might be lost on the home front, Sherman spent the first three weeks of August trying to get Hood out of Atlanta and himself into it by some means other than assaulting its fortifications, which would have been suicidal given their enormous strength, or by undertaking another large-scale flanking maneuver, something he was reluctant to do as it would mean again leaving his railroad supply line, this time while deep in enemy territory.

By the last week of July , Union forces had closed off three of the four railroads leading into Atlanta. With his army stretching in a wide crescent around the city, Sherman decided to snip this final corridor by sending out strong forces of cavalry from either tip of that crescent.

The two would converge on the railroad at Lovejoy's Station, ripping up both the tracks and telegraph lines for several miles. To lead the raid from his left, Sherman chose Major General George Stoneman, who was to take three small brigades of his own, numbering about 2, men, and a division of 3, more under Brigadier General Kenner Garrard. Garrard's troops had just returned from a raid to Covington, and Sherman cautioned Stoneman against taxing Garrard's worn-out horses.

This wing totaled about 4, troopers, but Harrison's half of that force had just arrived from Alabama after an exhausting raid, and McCook was warned to use those troops only as a reserve. These assignments left Sherman with only one division of cavalry in his entire army. Stoneman asked at the last moment for permission to attack Macon, releasing hundreds of imprisoned Union officers there, and to venture on to Andersonville from there, to free more than 30, men in that prison.

Sherman granted him leave to try, but only after destroying both the railroad and the Confederate cavalry under Major General Joseph Wheeler. Stoneman's hunger for the fame of liberating Andersonville led him to ignore both his orders and good judgment. This series offers a unique record of one of the greatest conflicts in the history of mankind.

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Score: 3. Popular Books. The Becoming by Nora Roberts. They then turned to the south, camera left, and rode through Rico to Palmetto. The Railroad in Palmetto. Here, McCook destroyed six miles of track and burned the depot along with supplies and they cut the telegraph lines as well. July 30th, I again apologize for the lateness of the post as I have been pretty busy for the last few days. Follow Following. War Was Here Join other followers.

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