The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864.
Table of Contents
No. 86.
report of
Capt.
Jacob
Ziegler
, Battery B, Pennsylvania Light
artillery.
Hdqrs. Battery B, Indpt. Arty., Pa.
Vet. Vols.,
September
7, 1864
.
The battery left Blue Springs, Tenn., on the
3d of May, 1864, under command of the late
Capt.
S.
M.
McDowell
.
Was attached to First Division, Fourth Army Corps, Department of
the Cumberland.
Has been engaged at Tunnel Hill, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, Kingston, Cassville,
New Hope Church, and Kenesaw Mountain, where
Capt.
S.
M.
McDowell
was killed while performing his duty.
Since then the battery was commanded by
Capt.
Jacob
Ziegler
, and has been engaged on the
4th of July, 1864, near Chattahoochee River, Ga.-Rebels
evacuated the same night and we followed them up to Chattahoochee
River, where we took position, crossed the river, and had several engagements, until we came up to
front of Atlanta.
Left the front of Atlanta on the
25th day of August, 1864, and marched toward the Macon
railroad.
The casualties during the campaign have been :
Nominal list (omitted) shows 3 killed and 13 wounded. Horses killed and disabled, 22.
J. Ziegler, Capt.
Battery B, Independent Pennsylvania Vet. Vols.
Capt.
Lyman
Bridges
, Chief of Artillery, Fourth Army Corps.