Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen. Samuel G. French
[CS]
Brig. Gen. John M. Corse [US)
When, after the evacuation of Atlanta, the Confederates crossed the
Chattahoochee and destroyed the railroad, Corse was ordered from Rome to the
relief of Allatoona, where an infantry division of the enemy threatened large
commissary supplies, guarded by 890 men, under Col. Tourtellotte. General Corse
arrived with 1,054 troops before the Confederates; but when the latter came up,
being greatly superior in numbers, they closely surrounded the position. To the
summons of the Confederate general, French, to surrender and avoid a needless
effusion of blood, General Corse returned a defiant answer. The Confederates,
numbering 4,000 or 5,000, attacked the fortifications furiously, 5 October,
1864, but were repeatedly driven back.
Maj. Gen.
Samuel G. French's Confederate division arrived near Allatoona at sunrise
on October
5. After demanding a surrender and receiving a negative reply, French
attacked. The Union line survived a sustained two and a half hour attack, but
then fell back and regrouped in an earthen star fort on top of Allatoona Pass.
General French repeatedly attacked the position, but the fort held. The
Confederates began to run low on ammunition, and reports of arriving Union
reinforcements influenced them to move off and rejoin Hood’s force.
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