Qualla: Battle of Pickett's Mill https://qualla.com/battle-of-pickett-s-mill en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/5/9/battle-of-pickett-s-mill-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Pickett's Mill https://qualla.com/battle-of-pickett-s-mill Battle of Pickett's Mill: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-pickett-s-mill/ Photo credit Thomson200, CC0. Brigadier General William Babcock Hazen glanced at his staff officer Ambrose Bierce, and Bierce instantly knew that a "criminal blunder" was about to happen. It was 4:30 in the afternoon on May 27, 1864, in the dense forests of Paulding County, Georgia. Hazen's 1,500-man brigade had been ordered to advance alone against entrenched Confederate positions near a north-flowing creek named after Malachi Pickett's grist mill. The woods were so thick that officers navigated by compass. Hazen had expected the entire division to attack together. Instead, his single brigade was about to assault unsupported, into terrain his commanders had barely reconnoitered. Every mounted officer sent his horse to the rear and went forward on foot. They knew what was coming.

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/5/9/battle-of-pickett-s-mill-wp/dn59-battle-of-picketts-mill-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Pickett's Mill: Sherman's Gamble in the Georgia Woods https://qualla.com/battle-of-pickett-s-mill/ Photo credit United States Army Center of Military History., Public domain. By late May 1864, William Tecumseh Sherman's Atlanta campaign had settled into a deadly chess match. Sherman commanded three armies totaling over 100,000 men, pushing south against General Joseph Johnston's Confederate Army of Tennessee, which fielded roughly 65,000 to 75,000 tro...

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/5/9/battle-of-pickett-s-mill-wp/dn59-battle-of-picketts-mill-shermans-gamble-in-the-georgia-woods.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Pickett's Mill: Navigating by Compass https://qualla.com/battle-of-pickett-s-mill/ Photo credit unnown, Public domain. Howard withdrew Thomas J. Wood's division from its freshly dug trenches at dawn on May 27 and formed it into a column of brigades -- six lines of men, one behind the other. The forests were so dense that Wood gave the colonel of his lead regiment a compass to guide the march. A s...

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/5/9/battle-of-pickett-s-mill-wp/dn59-battle-of-picketts-mill-navigating-by-compass.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Pickett's Mill: Fifty Minutes of Slaughter https://qualla.com/battle-of-pickett-s-mill/ Photo credit Thomson200, CC0. At 4:30 p.m., Wood sent Hazen's brigade forward alone. His men pushed through about 1,000 dismounted Confederate cavalrymen deployed in a thin skirmish line, forcing them back to a ravine. Beyond it rose a ridge. As Hazen's soldiers surged toward it, Granbury's Texans reached the...

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