. La storia fotografica della Guerra civile : in dieci volumi . BEGLNXIXG IL PRIMO FIANCO MO^■EMEXT nella foto superiore, presentata attraverso la gentilezza del generale G. P. Thruston, sono la sede del generale Thomas a Ringgold, Georgia, 5 maggio 1864. In quel giorno, nominato da Grant per l'inizio dei movimenti simultanei che aveva previsto di carruyout nel 186-i, il generale Sherman ha percorso le diciotto miglia da Chattanooga a Ringgold con il suo staff, circa mezza dozzina di carri, e una sola compagnia di sharpshooters Ohio. Una piccola compagnia di cavalleria irregolare dell'Alabama agì come corrieri. Sherman

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. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . BEGLNXIXG THE FIRST FLANK MO^■EMEXT In the upper picture, presented through the kindness of General G. P. Thruston, are the headquarters of General Thomas at Ringgold, Georgia, May 5, 1864. On that day, appointed by Grant for the beginning of the simultaneous movements he had planned to carryout in 186-i, General Sherman rode out the eighteen miles from Chattanooga to Ringgold with his staff, about half a dozen wagons, and a single company of Ohio sharpshooters. A small company of irregular Alabama cavalry acted as couriers. Shermans messestablishment was less bulky than that of any of his brigade commanders. I wanted to set the example, he says, and graduallyto convert all parts of that army into a mobile machine willing and able to start at a minutes notice and to subsist on the scantiestfood. On May 7th, General Thomas moved in force to Tunnel Hill to begin the turning of Johnstons flank.. C0PV«1GMT, 13(1, REU£W OF REVIEWS CO, TUNNEL HILL, GA., BEYOND WHICH JOHNSTON OCCUPIED A STRONG POSITION BUZZARDS ROOST GAP ^^[^ 0 Atlanta—^Itrrman ub. Jolinstnu aiMMMimm. ~w 4^ ^ w/iiiimimi ..rJ>n, .^.trag^ and was divided into two corps, under the respective com-mands of Generals John B. Hood and WilHam J. Hardee.But General Polk was on his way to join them, and in a fewdays Johnston had in the neighhorhood of sevent_v thousandmen. His j^osition at Dalton was too strong to be carriedby a front attack, and Sherman Avas too wise to attempt it.Leaving Thomas and Schofield to make a feint at Johnstonsfront, Sherman sent ]McPherson on a flanking movement bythe right to occupy Snake Creek Gap, a mountain pass nearResaca, which is about eighteen miles below Dalton. Sherman, with the main part of the army, soon occupiedTunnel Hill, which faces Rockj^ Face Ridge, an eastern rangeof the Cumberland INIountains, north of Dalton, on which alarge part of Johnstons army w^as posted. The

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