Maps Showing Some Activities of the

16th Kentucky Vol. Infantry

Source: The following Images, Maps and Historic Text were extracted from "Echoes of Glory" "Illustrated Atlas of THE CIVIL WAR" - By the Editors of Time-Life Books

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(Click Image to View Full Detail)	This is the Order of Battle of the troops beginning in March 1864.
(Click Image to View Full Detail)	Reaching Resaca, Johnston deployed his army on a ridge in a four-mile arc anchored on the left by the Oostanaula River and on the right by the Conasauga. Sherman, in hot pursuit, decided to probe the enemy line with part of his force while again sending McPherson to turn Johnston's flank. On the fisrt day of fighting, May 14, two of Schofield's divisions led by Jacob Cox and Henry Judah attacked Thomas Hindman's division of Hood's Corps, only to be stopped cold by murderous Confederate fire. Johnston quickly struck back, ordering Hood to drive at elemnts of Oliver Howard's IV Coprs. Darkness ended the fighting. More to come.....
(Click Image to View Full Detail)	Pursuing from Resaca, Sherman evaded a strong Rebel position at Allatoona Pass and followed Johnston to the area of Dallas- to find the Confederates again strongly entrenched on wooded ridges between the town and a methodist chapel to the north called New Hope Church. Here the two armies slugged it out in three battles. More to come....
(Click Image to View Full Detail)	Franklin Nov. 30th 1864 Well before dawn on November 30, Schofield's rear guard had cleared Spring Hill, and by early morning, most of the small Federal army was intact eight miles to the north in Franklin. Scholfield had wanted to push on the final 18 miles to Nashville but feared that he would not be able to get his wagon trains across the Harpeth River before Hood caught up. He ordered Cox's and Ruger's divisions from his own corps to dig in on either side of the Franklin & Columbia Turnpike and Posted Kimball's division from Stanley's IV Corps to cover the Union right. More to come.....
(Click Image to View Full Detail)	A view looking south from the position held by Wagoner's Yankees at Franklin surveys the open ground crossed by the Rebels; they attacked, said a Federal officer, with "red, tattered flags, as numerous as though every company bore them, flaring in the sun's rays."
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