{"id":2910,"date":"2010-07-16T10:52:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T15:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2010-07-16T10:55:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T15:55:40","slug":"battle-of-resaca-may-13-15-1864","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/07\/16\/battle-of-resaca-may-13-15-1864\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of Resaca: May 13-15, 1864"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Battle of Resaca took place from May 13-15, 1864 in Gordon<\/a>\u00a0and Whitfield<\/a> Counties in Georgia as a part of the Atlanta Campaign.\u00a0 A majority of the fighting took place on May 14 when Union Major General William T. Sherman<\/a>\u00a0and the Military Division of the Mississippi attacked Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston<\/a>\u00a0and the Army of Tennessee.\u00a0 The battle continued into the following day without much success on either side until General Sherman sent troops across the Oostanaula River in the direction of the Confederate supply line, forcing Johnston to retire from the battle.\u00a0 The Civil War Preservation Trust\u2019s website offers an article<\/a>, \u201cBattle of Resaca: Botched Union Attack,\u201d which describes missed Union opportunities that may have helped them win the battle.\u00a0 The website also includes brief biographies of General Sherman<\/a>\u00a0and General Johnston<\/a> as well as a map<\/a>\u00a0that shows troop movement on the Union and Confederate sides.\u00a0 Sherman described the Battle of Resaca in a letter<\/a>\u00a0to his brother, Senator John Sherman<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cJohnston had chose Dalton as his place of battle, but he had made all the road to it so difficult that I resolved to turn it, so I passed my army through a pass about twenty miles south of Dalton and forced him to battle at Resaca.\u00a0 That, too, was very strong, but we beat him at all points and as I got a bridge across the Oostanaula below him and was gradually getting to his rear, he again abandoned his position in the night and I have been pushing my force after him as fast as possible; yet his knowledge of the country and the advantage of a good railroad to his rear enabled him to escape me, but I now have full possession of all the rich country of the of the Etowah.\u00a0 We occupy Rome, Kingston, and Cassville.\u201d<\/p>\n

In terms of modern scholarship, another resource that may be interesting to browse is Philip L. Secrist\u2019s The Battle of Resaca: The Atlanta Campaign, 1864<\/a><\/em>, available as a preview on Google Books, which gives a summary of the battle as well as the rest of the campaign that followed.\u00a0 Also available on Google Books, Union General Ulysses S. Grant\u00a0<\/a>commented on the battle briefly in his book, Personal Memoirs<\/a><\/em>\u00a0while Craig L. Symonds\u2019s Joseph E. Johnston: a Civil War Biography<\/a><\/em>\u00a0provides more of a Confederate perspective of the fighting.\u00a0 The Library of Congress\u2019s online collection of Lincoln Papers includes a transcripted letter\u00a0<\/a>from Daniel E. Sickles<\/a> to President Abraham Lincoln\u00a0<\/a>describing Sherman\u2019s movements during the battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Battle of Resaca took place from May 13-15, 1864 in Gordon\u00a0and Whitfield Counties in Georgia as a part of the Atlanta Campaign.\u00a0 A majority of the fighting took place on May 14 when Union Major General William T. Sherman\u00a0and the Military Division of the Mississippi attacked Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston\u00a0and the Army of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,172,12,174],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-2910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-letters-diaries","category-maps","category-recent-scholarship","tag-battles-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2917,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions\/2917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}