The Battle of Resaca, from May 13 to 15, 1864, formed part of the Atlanta Campaign during the American Civil War, when a Union force under William Tecumseh Sherman engaged the Confederate Army of Tennessee led by Joseph E. Johnston. The battle was fought in Gordon and Whitfield Counties, Georgia, and is generally viewed as inconclusive.
The campaign began with Johnston holding strong defensive positions at Buzzard's Roost Gap and Rocky Face Ridge, which he hoped Sherman would assault. He was compelled to abandon Dalton when the Union Army of the Tennessee under James B. McPherson seized the unguarded Snake Creek Gap on May 8, threatening Resaca from the west. Johnston retreated to Resaca where he was joined by reinforcements gathering there; he was pursued by Sherman, most of whose forces followed McPherson through Snake Creek Gap, while others came south down the Western and Atlantic Railroad.
On May 14, Sherman gained a foothold west of Resaca but an attack on Confederate defenses to the north and northwest was repulsed, as was an assault by Johnston on the Union left flank later the same day. On May 15, Sherman's attack to the north and a Confederate counterattack were both stopped, but other Union forces seized a bridgehead on the south bank of the Oostanaula River. With his line of retreat threatened, Johnston abandoned Resaca that night and retreated south to Adairsville, where there was a skirmish on May 17.
The BattleofResaca, from May 13 to 15, 1864, formed part of the Atlanta Campaign during the American Civil War, when a Union force under William Tecumseh...
The BattleofResaca de la Palma was one of the early engagements of the Mexican–American War, where the United States Army under General Zachary Taylor...
promoted because of his success at the battlesofResaca and Peachtree Creek. He finally returned to his old regiment the same day that news of Lincoln's assassination...
that of the Mexican forces. That evening, Arista was forced to withdraw further south. The armies clashed again the next day at the BattleofResaca de...
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position in the Battleof Rocky Face Ridge. Johnston withdrew farther south after the BattleofResaca and there was a clash at the Battleof Adairsville...
Arista on May 9, 1846 in the BattleofResaca de la Palma. A surviving undeveloped portion of the battlefield is now part of the Palo Alto Battlefield National...
After Johnston's withdrawal following the BattleofResaca, the two armies clashed again at the Battleof Kennesaw Mountain, but the Confederate senior...
make an orderly evacuation in return for the surrender of the city. Following the BattleofResaca de la Palma, Taylor crossed the Rio Grande on 18 May...
known in the North as Battleof Antietam and Second Battleof Bull Run were referred to as the Battleof Sharpsburg and the Battleof Manassas, respectively...
of the Mexican American War: the Battle of Palo Alto and the Battle of Resaca de la Palma, which were disastrous losses for Mexico and resulted in Arista...
Monterey Street (for the Battleof Monterrey), Palo Alto Street (for the Battleof Palo Alto), Resaca Place (for the BattleofResaca de la Palma), Sherman...
Campaign. He suffered a severe wound in the BattleofResaca that forced him to leave the field. For the rest of the war, he served in various administrative...
appointed Robert H. Milroy as colonel of the 9th on April 26, 1861, nearly two weeks after the firing began at the Battleof Fort Sumter. By September 3, 1861...
army in the direction ofResaca, Johnston retired to take up positions there. Full scale fighting erupted in the BattleofResaca on May 14–15 but there...
Johnston to bait a trap for the Union army at Cassville. Following the BattleofResaca, May 13–15, General Joseph E. Johnston's army retreated southward while...
for the soldiers that fought in the BattleofResaca which took place May 14 and 15, 1864. From the two days ofbattle, there are only three graves where...
"unacceptable tactical blunders" and continued his criticism at the BattleofResaca de la Palma – a defeat for which Arista partially blamed him. During...
successful Atlanta Campaign in May, including more hard fighting at the BattleofResaca and the fighting at Pickett's Mills, Kennesaw Mountain, and Peachtree...
commanded by General Mariano Arista at the battlesof Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, driving Arista's troops out of Texas. Taylor then led his troops into...
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