After the
Battle of Resaca, Confederate General Joseph E Johnston took his army south,
while Union General William T Sherman pursued.
Looking for a good defensive position, Johnson moved on to Adairsville
while the Cavalry fought rearguard actions.
Sherman divided his troops into three columns, and advance on a broad
front.
On May 17th
1864 Union Major General Oliver O Howard’s IV Corps began skirmishing about two
miles from Adairsville with Confederate Lieutenant General William J Hardee’s
entrenched Corps. The 24th
Wisconsin and 44th Illinois attacked Confederate Benjamin F Cheatham’s
division near the Octagon House receiving heavy losses. With three Union divisions preparing for
attack, darkness fell and called off the fighting.
Sherman
concentrated all his troops in the Adairsville area, preparing to attack
Johnston the next morning. Johnston
finding the valley at Adairsville to wide, leaving him no place to anchor his
flanks, he withdrew his troops.
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