Talk:Battle of Jonesborough

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008
Ensured that the article is within project scope, tagged for task forces, and assessed for class. --Rosiestep (talk) 05:14, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

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Proposed changes
Sections which are currently completely or partly uncited are Background, September 1, and In popular media. The introduction states, "Two Union armies led by Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman maneuvered to draw the Army of Tennessee (led by John Bell Hood) away from their defenses at Atlanta, Georgia, so it could be destroyed." This is incorrect. The purpose of Sherman's maneuver was to cut the Macon and Western Railroad which was the last remaining railroad leading into Atlanta. Blocking the railroad would force the Confederate evacuation of Atlanta, which was Sherman's objective. In fact, this was already stated in the Background section, so it's not clear why the introduction has the incorrect statement. I propose to raise this article to B class while preserving the current cited material. Djmaschek (talk) 01:34, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

Emmeran M. Bliemel
The link and paragraph about Emmeran M. Bliemel under 'Further reading' seems like too much text is expended on a person whose death really has nothing to do with the course of the battle. Since there is already an article about this individual, I propose removing the material from 'Further reading' and adding the Emmeran M. Bliemel blue-link in the list under 'See also'. Please comment. Djmaschek (talk) 03:47, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
 * The link to the Bliemel article was dead. Paragraph removed and Emmeran M. Bliemel blue-link added to 'See also' section. Djmaschek (talk) 04:56, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

Lovejoy's Station
This sentence was in a previous version and cited in Bailey p. 145. "Cleburne would move north on the left from Lovejoy Station and attack the Federal line held by Ransom, while Stephen D. Lee was to make the secondary attack on the right against Logan's line." There is some mistake here. Lovejoy Station is 6 miles south of Jonesboro. It would have taken Cleburne's division at least 2 hours (at 20 min./mile) to get from Lovejoy to Ransom's position. Furthermore, Hardee's (Cleburne's) corps arrived in Jonesboro that morning from the north, and never came near Lovejoy. If the source (Bailey) actually wrote that, he was wrong. So I removed "from Lovejoy Station" from the cited sentence. Djmaschek (talk) 04:16, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

Attack positions
This sentence was in a previous version and cited in Bailey p. 151. "By 4:00 p.m. Stanley's corps still had not yet arrived on the battlefield, and Sherman ordered Davis to make an attack on a Confederate salient held by Cleburne. Next, he positioned all three of his divisions for an assault. Absalom Baird was in the center, with James D. Morgan on the left and William P. Carlin on the right." The maps in the Castel (p. 514) and 10th Kentucky references, and in Cox's text (p. 207) show that Morgan was on the right and Carlin on the left, in direct contradiction to the above statement. Also, it's not clear when Stanley arrived on the battlefield, but his troops went forward at 5 pm and were slowed by rough terrain and the presence of Confederate field works. After editing, the cited sentence will only refer to the fact that, Carlin, Morgan and Baird were the three division commanders. Djmaschek (talk) 20:05, 11 November 2021 (UTC)