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On This Day in Confederate History, May 17.

1864: The Battle of Adairsville, Ga. (aka the Battle of Cassville) took place when General Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee makes another stand against Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's combined Federal armies in the Atlanta Campaign. The fighting was between Lt. Gen. William J. Hardee's Corps and that of the Federal Corps of Maj. Gen. Oliver Otis Howard. Confederate Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Cheatham's Division suffered heavy casualties in the attacks and Johnston decides the ground is not suitable for defense and again retreated that night. 

Gen. John Bell Hood commanded

a corps in the Atlanta Campaign

before taking command of the army.

PRELUDE TO THE BATTLE OF YELLOW BAYOU, LA--In the Red River Campaign in Louisiana in 1864, Confederate Maj. Gen. Richard Taylor's Army of Western Louisiana continues driving back the numerically superior Army of the Gulf under Maj. Gen. N.P. Banks. There is skirmishing near Moreauville and at Yellow Bayou, which will spark the last major battle of the campaign the following day. 

Battle Flag of the 6th Bn. Texas Cav. (Dismounted)

The battalion served in Walker's Texas Infantry Division

in the Red River Campaign.

(Texas State Library & Archives)

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