The Story Of The Twenty Fifth Michigan PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... Ten miles more were made on the eighteenth and about the same on the nineteenth, when we found ourselves near the village of Cassville. In these few days we must have marched near to fifty miles, and probably could not have advanced more than twenty-five miles below Resaca. A wide detour to the east must have been made by the 23rd Army Corps to have made this distance. We heard some cannonading at our front and right on the last day, where I concluded that the enemy had made some show of resistance. We had none of it ourselves, though at a little after midday we were drawn up and formed in preparation for battle. That part blew over. We were too far out on the right of the enemy, and, probably, out of reach on a flank movement. The country, too, along this march was quite open and not at all favorable so as to induce a retreating foe to make a stand with any hope of success. It was the least hilly and wooded of all the country passed over from Rocky Face to Atlanta. The 2nd division had been under the command of Gen. Judah from February last until this time, when he was removed and Gen. Hascall given in charge as his successor. The cause of this removal was, the story ran, that he was over-ambitious to have a second star placed upon his shoulder and said that the battle of Resaca should give it to him. Consequently he rushed his division headlong into the battle, unsupported by his batteries, as before described. The fighting on the fourteenth was done mainly along and near his division, and it was credited with a heavy loss. I cannot join in the heaviest criticism upon his management, though the artillery ought to have been up with our lines and ready for, or, rather, opened the action as the division descended to the open field and out...