CHAPTER
TWENTY-FOUR
Retreating
Through Georgia
The Atlanta Campaign,
May-September
1864
5th
Company, Washington Battalion, Company
A, Pointe Coupee Battalion Artillery; 30th Battalion, 4th, 16th Regiments Infantry
Under
their new commander, J. E. Johnston, the
Acadians in Georgia fight Sherman and his army. Johnston's replacement, John Bell Hood, nearly
destroys the
Gray army in front of Atlanta.