Gen. Wheeler in the Atlanta Campaign

Confederate Veteran
Volume 12, Number 12, Page 384
December 1904

GEN. WHEELER IN THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN.
BY W. H. DAVIS, FOURTH TENNESSEE CAVALRY, DALLAS, TEX.

The sequel to our fight with Gen. Kilpatrick as described on pages 76 and 77 in the February number of the VETERAN [To which this is a continuation—ED.] was a general advance of Sherman's entire army at daylight of May 7, 1864. His line of battle was more than a mile in length, covered by a heavy line of skirmishers. Of course Joe Wheeler's men were always in evidence when Mr. Kilpatrick made a sally from the Federal Infantry, and every inch of the terra firma was stubbornly contested, but about 11 A.M. Mr. Yank got too frisky for us and told us to—Backward March! But the Johnnies didn't like that; so we picked our flintes afresh and were ready to measure swords again.