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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 made 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 decided the ground was unsuitable for defense and again retreated that night.
An unidentified Confederate private wearing
an Atlanta Depot-style jacket that is distinguished
by the unusual way the standing collars come
together. The image came out of an Atlanta, Ga. estate.
(9th Plate Ruby Ambrotype, M.D. Jones Collection)
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.
The battalion served in Walker's Texas Infantry Division
in the Red River Campaign.
(Texas State Library & Archives)
This is the story of one of the most unique Louisiana infantry brigades in the War for Southern Independence. It was made up of Louisiana's very cosmopolitan population, including South Louisiana Cajuns, North Louisiana Rednecks, and New Orleans Irish, Germans, and other ethnic groups then populating the Crescent City. The regiments of the brigade included the 18th Louisiana Infantry Regiment, the 24th Louisiana Infantry (Crescent) Regiment, and the 10th (Yellow Jackets), and the 12/16th Louisiana infantry battalions. Early in the war, some of the units fought in other brigades at the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee. When the brigade was formed in Louisiana in the fall of 1862, they fought in the Lafourche Campaign of 1862, the Bayou Teche Campaign of the spring of 1863, the Great Texas Overland Expedition of 1863, and the Red River Campaign of 1864. The brigade was led by one of the most colorful, chivalrous, and competent Confederate commanders of the war, Brigadier General Alfred Mouton of Lafayette, Louisiana. The fighting men of the brigade time and again fought with great valor and left a legacy of gallantry that makes their descendants proud to this day.
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