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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

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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
Bri