As Union and Confederate forces fight fiercely in Virginia and Georgia, Thomas E. Seerley (1826-1914) is en route to Oregon, one of thousands who are traveling West to seek their fortunes and/or escape the ravages of war. It is a long, dangerous journey by wagon train that Seerley has embarked upon. Many making the trek…
In the Kennesaw Mountain area near Atlanta, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman continues pressing the Confederate’s Army of Tennessee toward Marietta. A portion of today’s fighting takes place at the Gilgal Baptist Church, a Hardshell Primitive Baptist log meeting house. As Federal forces near Confederate General Patrick Cleburne‘s troops who are stationed along a strategic…
In the Atlanta Campaign today, Union cavalry under General William T. Sherman are currently entrenched at Allatoona Pass, west of Atlanta. Here they control a railroad that provides access to supplies and troop reinforcements. On the morrow Sherman withdraws his soldiers from Dallas and begins moving them to Allatoona Pass in order to ascertain control…