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Tactics modified by character of the country Use of the spade Johnston's cautious defensive Methods of Grant and Sherman Open country between Oostanaula and Etowah Movement in several columns Sherman's eagerness Route of left wing Of McPherson on the right Necessity of exact system in such marches Route of Twenty-third Corps Hooker gets in the way Delays occasioned Closing in on Cassville Our commanding position Johnston's march to Cassville His order to fight there Protest of Hood and Polk Retreat over the Etowah Sherman crosses near Kingston My reconnoissance to the Allatoona crossing Destruction of iron works and mills Marching without baggage Barbarism of war Desolation it causes Changes in our corps organization Hascall takes Judah's division Our place of crossing the Etowah Interference again Kingston the new base Rations Camp coffee.
My personal staff was composed of Captain J. H. Hammond, assistant adjutant-general; Surgeons Hartshorn and L'Hommedieu; Lieutenant Colonels Hascall and Sanger, inspector-generals; Lieutenants McCoy and John Taylor, aides-de-camp. We were all conscious that the enemy was collecting at Corinth, but in what force we could not know, nor did we know what was going on behind us.
Id., p. 809. A liberal issue of furloughs to enlisted men, especially convalescents in hospital, was made, so that we might get them back in robust health and good spirits when the fall campaign should open. General Hascall resigned and left us, and the command of his division passed to General Joseph A. Cooper, who had been promoted from the colonelcy of the Sixth East Tennessee.
My last troops were despatched from Indianapolis to head them off at Hamilton, after five hours' delay caused by the intoxication of their commander. His successor in command was General Hascall, who swore like a trooper to find himself "just in time to be too late." He proceeded through Hamilton, Ohio, as far as Loveland.
At my request Hascall's division swung still farther out to the left to develop the line of the enemy's works, and Schofield asked Butterfield's division of Hooker's Corps to advance on the extreme flank. He found that Hascall developed the full extent of the Confederate line, and thought it a good opportunity to take the position in reverse.
On the 16th of September Hascall's division was echeloned along the road from Morristown back toward Knoxville; White's division passed Knoxville, moving up the valley to join Hascall. Hartsuff, who commanded the Twenty-third Corps, had been disabled for field work by trouble from his old wounds and was at Knoxville.
The first division, under Brigadier-General J. T. Boyle, was to remain in Kentucky and protect the lines of communication. The second was put under command of Brigadier-General M. D. Manson, and the third under Brigadier-General M. S. Hascall. Each marching division was organized into two brigades with a battery of artillery attached to each brigade.
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