Showing posts with label Second Battle of Dalton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Second Battle of Dalton. Show all posts

Sunday, March 19, 2017

44th U.S. Colored Troops at Dalton, Georgia, 1864

https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/121/0175

Also see, Second Battle of Dalton references;

http://musescivilwar.blogspot.com/2017/03/second-battle-of-dalton-august-14-15.html


Lewis Johnson, Cmdg. 1st US Colored Troops (biographical reference)
http://bit.ly/GoogleBooks-MilitaryRec-Lewis-Johnson-1st-USCT

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Later Battles: October 1864

Action at Fort Hill, Whitfield County, Georgia
The action that resulted in the capture of the U. S. 44th Colored Infantry, commanded by US Colonel Lewis Johnson, took place on 13 October 1864 at Fort Hill, (Dalton), Whitfield County, Georgia: https://www.whitfieldcountyga.com/hist/civilwar.htm

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Subject: Battles in Dalton, Georgia ; U.S. Colored Troops

(Battle of Dalton, 13 October 1864)

Report of Lewis Johnson, 44th U.S. Colored Infantry

(Battle of Dalton, October 1864)

Official Records, Series 1, Volume 39, Part 1 (Reports), 717.

"No. 72, Reports of Col. Lewis Johnson, Forty-fourth U.S. Colored Infantry, commanding post of Dalton, Ga."
Chattanooga, Tenn., October 17, 1864.

Report of Lewis Johnson, 44th U.S. Colored Infantry
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth154635/m1/733/?q=dalton


Second Battle of Dalton - August 14-15, 1864; also McCook-Stoneman Raid

Second Battle of Dalton

(references to):

Official Records, Series 1, Volume 38, Part 1 (Reports), page 162
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth146042/m1/179/?q=colored%20troops

Official Records, Series 1, Volume 38, Part 1 (Reports), page 619
Report no.
Report of Col. William Sirwell, Seventy-Eighth Pennsylvania...
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth146042/m1/636/?q=colored%20troops%20at%20fort%20whitfield


Wikipedia Article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Dalton

Note: this record also contains an account of the failed McCook-Stoneman raid (Atlanta/Newnan)

Note: Edward M. McCook had received his nomination to brigadier on 2 April 1864. Reference: Series 1, Vol. 32, Part 3, page 220, Letter from Edwin M. Stanton, War Dept., Washington, to Maj.-Gen. Sherman.