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Week 191 Of The War
(Nov. 20th - Nov 26th, 1864)
Monday - Nov. 21, 1864
Friday - Nov. 25, 1864
Battle of Ball's Ferry
(Nov. 27th - Dec. 3rd, 1864)
Monday - Nov. 28, 1864
Sunday - Dec. 4, 1864
Saturday - Dec. 10, 1864
The Daily Intelligencer returns to Atlanta from Macon
Week 194
Tuesday - Dec. 13, 1864
(Nov. 20th - Nov 26th, 1864)
Monday - Nov. 21, 1864
- William Hardee orders militia from Macon under the command of P. J. Phillips to advance to Augusta to assist in defending the arsonal there.
- Two thirds of the homes in Clinton destroyed.
- Griswoldville destroyed
- Battle of Griswoldville. General P. J. Phillips advances into the Right Wing of Sherman's Army and attacks the battle-hardened veterans with militia, mostly old men and boys.
- Camp Lawton Prison evacuated
- The main body of Union troops arrive in Milledgeville early in the morning, having spent the previous night on the outskirts to the north of the state capital.
Friday - Nov. 25, 1864
- Sandersville, GA - Confederate Cavalry under "Fighting Joe" Wheeler attack a Union Cavalry detachment in Sandersville (Washington County).
- Warehouses and Tennille railroad depot (Washington County) burned. By orders of General Sherman, any town where his troops faced hostility was subject to enforced devastation. Federal troops were ordered to burn buildings in the town and forage the area.
- Ola Barber's Account
Battle of Ball's Ferry
- Washington County Courthouse burned by Union soldiers.
- Atlanta reoccupied by Confederate forces
(Nov. 27th - Dec. 3rd, 1864)
Monday - Nov. 28, 1864
- Battle of Buck Head Creek - The Confederate and Yankee accounts of this battle are as different as night and day. They can't both be true...
- Gen. Wheeler's Report
- Sherman's Left Wing attempts to liberate the prisoner of war compound, Camp Lawton, north of Millen, Georgia, only to find it empty. Its 10,229 prisoners had been moved to temporary quarters in Thomasville (Thomas County) and Blackshear (Pierce County). Sherman orders the depot and a nearby hotel in Millen burned.
- Doug Carter, Guard - GA 3rd Reserves
- Sebastian Glamser - OH 37th Infantry Regiment
- Adelbert Knight - 11th U.S. Infantry
- The Horrid Affair at Ebenezer
- Forty Acres and a Mule
Sunday - Dec. 4, 1864
- Statesboro, Georgia, is the first major town visited by the Right Wing of Sherman's Army in almost two weeks.
- Annie Rigdon Bland's Account
- Battle of Waynesboro
- Coosawhatchie, SC
- Casualties of the 1st & 3rd GA Reserves
- Mayor James Calhoun reports the Atlanta City treasury holds $1.64
- Fighting Along Ebenezer Creek
Saturday - Dec. 10, 1864
The Daily Intelligencer returns to Atlanta from Macon
Week 194
Tuesday - Dec. 13, 1864
- Sherman Captures Fort McAllister. Two miles east of the fort his men make contact with the waiting Union fleet marking the end of the March to the Sea.
- Video of the capture of Fort McAllister.
- Gen. William D. Hazen's Report.
- First Hand Account by Samuel Moore
- The Return of the Emmett Rifles' Flag
- Sherman Demands the Surrender of Savannah. Overnight the Confederates withdraw into South Carolina.
- Sherman captures Savannah, GA