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Title: The Battle of Atlanta
and Other Campaigns, Addresses, Etc.
Author: Grenville M. Dodge
Release Date: December 4, 2009 [EBook #30597]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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[Illustration: MAJOR-GENERAL GRENVILLE M. DODGE
Commander
Department of the Missouri
1865.]
THE
BATTLE OF ATLANTA
AND
OTHER CAMPAIGNS,
ADDRESSES, Etc.
BY
Major-General Grenville M. Dodge
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA
THE MONARCH PRINTING COMPANY
1911
CONTENTS
Page.
The Southwestern Campaign 9
Letter of General Dodge to his Father 35
The Battle of Atlanta 39
Letter to General Raum 53
The Indian Campaigns of 1864-65 63
The Indian Campaigns of 1865-66 79
Campaign up the Tennessee River Valley 111
The Army of the Tennessee 129
The Campaign in the West 137
A Talk to Old Comrades 145
General Grant 151
Use of Block-Houses During the Civil War 159
An Incident of the War 165
Gen. G. M. Dodge on the Water Cure 173
Misplaced Sympathy 177
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Major-General Grenville M. Dodge Frontispiece
Major-General Samuel R. Curtis 7
Sylvanus Dodge 34
Sixteenth Army Corps in the Battle of Atlanta 38
Monument on the Battlefield of Atlanta 52
Old Fort Kearney 62
James Bridger, Guide 78
Pumpkin Buttes 94
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