On May 7, 1864, General Sherman’s army began to move into Georgia and the “Atlanta Campaign” begins.Four years of war ravaged the Virginia landscape, displacedįamilies, ended the institution of slavery, and cost Sherman’s orders stated simply that he was to, “get into the interior of the enemy’s country as far as you can, inflicting all the damage you can against their war resources.” Atlanta was a Confederate logistical and industrial center with four major railroads. Johnston’s Confederate army in northern Georgia and prevent Johnston from sending reinforcements to Lee in Virginia. Lee’s Confederate forces in Virginia, General Sherman’s army was to break up General Joseph E. While General Grant moved against General Robert E. The strategy developed by Generals Grant and Sherman in March 1864 was very simple. McPherson’s 24,000-man Army of the Tennessee, and Major General John M. Thomas’s 72,900-man Army of the Cumberland, Major General James B. General Sherman had three armies under his command in Tennessee - Major General George H.
Sherman assumed command of the Military Division of the Mississippi. With General Grant’s departure, Major General William T. Grant was appointed Lieutenant General by President Lincoln and assumed command of all Union armies in the field. It joined the main force of the Union army at Rocky Face Ridge, Georgia on May 7.įrom a larger perspective, in March 1864 there was a major shift in direction for the Union army. On April 28, 1864, the regiment re-assembled at Camp Dennison, Ohio, and on the same day started for the front, reaching Chattanooga on May 5. This was a sufficient number for the regiment to receive its “Veteran” status and be furloughed home to Ohio for sixty days. On February 21, 262 men re-enlisted and on February 25, 21 commissioned officers re-enlisted. Robert’s regiment, the 61 st OVI, was asked in February 1864 to re-enlist for the remainder of the war. The Union army remained in winter quarters until the beginning of May 1864. The last reported location of the Patterson Brothers (Robert and William) in December 1863 was as the Union army in the western theater was going into winter quarters in and around Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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