. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . 304 THE STRUGGLE FOR ATLANTA. 30 were breaking up the State arsenal at Adairsville, caring for the wounded andbringing in Confederate prisoners, word was telegraphed from Resaea thatbacon, hard-bread, and coffee were already there at our service. Johnston, by his speedy night-work, passed on through Kingston, andformed an admirable line of battlein the vicinity of Cassville, withhis back to the Etowah River, pro-tecting the selected crossing. This was his final halt north ofthat r
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . 304 THE STRUGGLE FOR ATLANTA. 30 were breaking up the State arsenal at Adairsville, caring for the wounded andbringing in Confederate prisoners, word was telegraphed from Resaea thatbacon, hard-bread, and coffee were already there at our service. Johnston, by his speedy night-work, passed on through Kingston, andformed an admirable line of battlein the vicinity of Cassville, withhis back to the Etowah River, pro-tecting the selected crossing. This was his final halt north ofthat river, so difficult with itsmountain banks. Johnston re-mained here to obstruct and dis-pute our way one day only, forSchofield and Hooker had pene-trated the forests eastward of himso far that Hood, still on John-stons right, insisted that the Yan-kees were already beyond him andin force. Upon this report, about whichthere has since been much contro-versy, Johnston ordered a promptwithdrawal. The morning of the21st of May, bright and clear,. MAJOR-GENERAL JACOB D. COX. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. showed us a country picturesque in its natural features, with farm and woodland as quiet and peaceful as ifthere had been no war. So Sherman, taking up his headquarters at King-ston, a little hamlet on the railway, gave his armies three days rest. \ A glance at the map [see p. 251] shows the Etowah flowing nearly westthirty miles from Allatoona to Rome. Shermans headquarters at Kingstonwere midway. While the armies were resting, the right (Daviss division) atRome, the left (Schofield and Hooker) near Cartersville, and the remainderat Kingston, the railroad and telegraph lines were repaired to Kingston;baggage, temporarily abandoned, came back to officers and men; necessarysupplies, at the hands of smiling quartermasters and commissaries, nowfound us. The dead were buried, the sick and wounded were made morecomfortable, and everybody got his mail and wrote letters. Meanwhile Sher-man and his arm
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