Battle of Jonesboro GA Civil War Relic Dug 1971 Fired High Impact Rifle Bullet

Description: Please visit our eBay store for a complete list of in-stock Civil War relics organized by recovery location. We are working as partners in conjunction with Gettysburg Relics to offer some very nice American Civil War relics for sale. The owner of Gettysburg Relics was the proprietor of Artifact at 777 on Cemetery Hill in Gettysburg for a number of years, and we are now selling exclusively on eBay. THE BATTLE OF JONESBORO, GEORGIA - RECOVERED IN 1971 - FROM THE WILLIAM A. REGER COLLECTION - This Civil War relic, a fired high-impact rifle bullet, very mangled with multiple impact marks, may be a CS 2-ring Gardner bullet, however it is difficult to tell in this mangled state. It appears to have struck something hard on the cavity end of it. This relic was recovered in 1971 from the Battlefield of Jonesboro, Georgia by William A. Reger, a Berks County, Pennsylvania relic hunter who meticulously documented his finds with type-writer typed tags. In this case, the tag is not included, as it was the only one for the collection grouping, however a copy of the tag, as well as a provenance letter, will be included. Reger passed away in Reading, Pennsylvania in 2011. Jonesborough, Georgia: The Battle that Doomed Atlanta Clayton County, GA | Aug 31 - Sep 1, 1864 'By late August 1864, the city of Atlanta was not yet subdued by Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's armies. A few supply lines remained open to the city supporting the army of Lieut. Gen. John B. Hood encircled there. Union cavalry raids inflicted only superficial damage, quickly repaired by the Confederates. Sherman determined that if he could destroy the Macon & Western and Atlanta & West Point Railroads to the south the Rebel army would be forced to evacuate the city. On August 25, Union infantry began moving towards the railroad near Jonesborough. To counter Sherman, Hood sent Lieut. Gen. William J. Hardee with two corps to halt the Union movement. On August 31, Hardee attacked west of Jonesborough but was easily repulsed. Fearing a direct attack on Atlanta, Hood withdrew one corps from Hardee’s force that night. The next day, a Union attack broke through Hardee’ s troops which retreated south. That evening, Hood finally evacuated Atlanta, which surrendered to Federal troops on September 2. Sherman had finally won the strategically important Confederate city, but had not defeated the Army of Tennessee. After three Union cavalry raids failed to cut the Macon & Western railroad, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman judged, "I expect I will have to swing across to that road in force to make the matter certain." Sherman left the Twentieth Corps at the Chattahoochee and with his six other corps marched southwest of Atlanta, then swung east, aiming to cut the railroad between East Point and Jonesboro. Sherman was not just making an infantry raid on the Macon & Western; he was throwing virtually his entire army upon it. This "grand swing by the right" began on August 25. Gen. John Bell Hood soon learned from his cavalry at noon on the 27th that enemy infantry were marching south toward Fairburn, strength as yet unknown. On the 28th, Hood ordered two brigades to move south by rail to Jonesboro. He suspected some sort of raid on the railway, but was unsure of the Yankees's objective. By the 29th, Hood concluded that maybe two of three Union corps were involved. By the next day, Confederates knew that five, maybe even six corps were involved, but they didn't know exactly where they were heading. Hood ordered S.D. Lee to move his headquarters to East Point; he sent General William J. Hardee four miles further down the road to Rough and Ready to sift through cavalry reports. Lastly, Hood had sent two brigades of infantry to Jonesboro. In the meantime, Hood held Stewart's corps and the military within the works of Atlanta to guard the city. On the morning of August 30, cavalryman Frank Armstrong, eight miles west of Jonesboro, reported a strong infantry force moving against him. On the 30th, having wrecked miles of the West Point Railroad, the Fourth and Twenty-third Coprs marched eastward to strike the Macon road south of Rough and Ready. Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard's Army of the Tennessee headed straight for Jonesboro, with the Fourteenth Corps taking different roads to its left; Armstrong's Southern cavalry, battling Kilpatrick, contested Howard's advance throughout the day. Despite this resistance, and despite Sherman's advice that Howard could stop his march that day short of Jonesboro if he wanted to, Howard decided to press on, largely because his thirsty men needed watering at the Flint River. Around 5 p.m. Howard's advance reached the Flint and battled retreating Rebel cavalry across the river bridge. Howard's army dug in, expecting to be attacked in what General Blair called its "saucy position." John A. Logan's Fifteenth Corps entrenched on the high ground east of the river. A division of the Sixteenth Corps formed on its right; the Seventeenth started crossing the river to form on the left. Armstrong wired Hood that the Yankees, now just a mile west of Jonesboro, could attack the railroad that very night. Quickly Hood ordered Hardee to march his corps to Jonesboro, and told Lee to follow. Meanwhile he told the small force at Jonesboro to "hold your position at all hazards. Help is ordered to you." Hood ordered Hardee and Lee on August 31 to take their corps to Jonesboro and attack the enemy, assumed to be three corps, and drive them away. Yet already Hood was preparing for the worst: he ordered the army's ordnance reserve packed on trains and taken out of the city Hardee's plan called for the assault to begin against the Federal right, with Maj. Gen. Patrick Cleburne's division on the extreme left, wheeling northward to turn the enemy flank. Then, from south to north, the rest of the line would pick up the attack; Lee's divisions would advance after Cleburne "had hotly engaged the enemy at close quarters." Around 3 p.m. Cleburne began his attack, heading for John Corse's division, entrenched on a ridge. An attack by Hugh J. Kilpatrick's cavalry forced the Southerners to fight off to their left. Then Brown's division went in, but under heavy artillery and rifle fire fell back. On Lee's front, six brigades of Patton Anderson's and Carter Stevenson's division met the same bloody repulse. General Anderson himself was severely wounded, shot in the jaw. By 4:30, all along the line, the Southerners were withdrawing to their original positions. Casualties for the day reflected the usual disproportion between defender and attacker. While Federal losses totaled a mere 179 killed and wounded, S.D. Lee estimated 1,300 casualties in his corps alone, and Hardee would have lost another 400. Having been beaten in assault, Hardee rightly concluded that "it now became necessary for me to act on the defensive." Final Attack at Jonesboro September 1, 1864 At 6:00 p.m. on August 31st, even before he knew the outcome of Lt. Gen. William Hardee's attack, Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood sent a message by courier down to Hardee ordering the return of S.D. Lee's corps back toward the city. Confederate cavalry had reported enemy movement near East Point; Hood reminded Hardee that sizable enemy forces were either hovering there or near Rough and Ready. Hardee, on the other hand, expected more enemy troops to arrive in his front and that they would attack him the next day. Still, at 1 a.m. on September 1, he sent Lee's corps marching back toward Atlanta. Union Gen. William T. Sherman indeed wanted an attack launched on Hardee, whose line on the 1st ran roughly north-south then refused to the southeast across the railroad. Jefferson Davis's Fourteenth Corps launched its attack around 4 p.m., aiming for the bend in the Rebel line. Even entrenched and with artillery the Confederates could not hold them back for long. Federals broke Cleburne's line, capturing hundreds of prisoners, including Brig. Gen. Daniel Govan. But Hardee and Cleburne rushed reinforcements and by nightfall had stabilized their line. Hardee had barely held back the Federals, but in doing so the Confederates lost at least 1,400 killed, wounded, and missing. Davis's corps incurred 222 killed, 945 wounded, and 105 missing, a total of 1,272 men. Around midnight, Hardee began withdrawing his troops, heading south toward Lovejoy's Station. Hood's army was dangerously divided, but Sherman made no effort to try to pursue or attack it further.' All of the collections that we are offering for sale are guaranteed to be authentic and are either older recoveries, found before the 1960s when it was still legal to metal detect battlefields, or were recovered on private property with permission. Some land on Battlefields that are now Federally owned, or owned by the Trust, were acquired after the items were recovered. We will not sell any items that were recovered illegally, nor will we sell any items that we suspect were recovered illegally. We include as much documentation with the relics as we possess. This includes copies of tags if there are identification tags or maps, as well as a signed letter of provenance with the specific recovery information. Thank you for viewing!

Price: 24.99 USD

Location: York, Pennsylvania

End Time: 2024-09-19T01:09:06.000Z

Shipping Cost: N/A USD