. A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day. Confederate army, sixty thou-sand strong. After some manoeuvring and fighting, he succeeded in turningJohnstons flank, and obliged him to fall back to Resaca. After two hardbattles on the 14th and 15th of May, this place was also carried, and theConfederates retreated by way of Calhoun and Kingston to , on the 28th, Johnston made a second stand, entrenched himselfand fought, but was again outnumbered, outflanked, and compelled tofall back to Lost Mountain. From this position he was for
. A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day. Confederate army, sixty thou-sand strong. After some manoeuvring and fighting, he succeeded in turningJohnstons flank, and obliged him to fall back to Resaca. After two hardbattles on the 14th and 15th of May, this place was also carried, and theConfederates retreated by way of Calhoun and Kingston to , on the 28th, Johnston made a second stand, entrenched himselfand fought, but was again outnumbered, outflanked, and compelled tofall back to Lost Mountain. From this position he was forced on the17th of June, after three days of desultory fighting. The next stand ofthe Confederates was made on the Great and Little Kenesaw this line on the 22d of June the division of General Hood made afierce attack upon the Union centre, but was repulsed with heavy days afterward General Sherman attempted to carry the Great Ken-esaw by storm. The assault was made Avith great audacity, but ended ina dreadful repulse and a loss of three thousand men. Sherman, undis-. SHERMANS CAMPAIGN, 1864. 526 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. mayed by his reverse, resumed his former tactics, outflanked his antago-nist, and on the 3d of July compelled him to retreat across the Chatta-hoochee. By the 10th of the month the whole Confederate army hadretired within the defences of Atlanta. This stronghold of the Confederacy was at once besieged. Herewere the great machine-shops, foundries, car-works and depots of suppliesupon the possession of which so much depended. At the very beginningof the siege the cautious and skillful General Johnston was superseded bythe rash but daring General J. B. Hood. It was the policy of the latterto fight at whatever hazard. On the 20th, 22d and 28th of July he madethree desperate assaults on the Union lines around Atlanta, but was re-pulsed with dreadful losses in each engagement. It was in the beginningof the second of these battles that t
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