There were two roads leading south from Adairsville—one south to Kingston, the other southeast to Cassville.
As Johnston withdrew again, skirmishing erupted at Adairsville on May 17 and more general fighting on Johnston's Cassville line May 18–19.
Battery C, 1st Ohio Light Artillery, supported by 73rd Ohio Infantry, 19th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment and 20th Connecticut Infantry regiment US occupied the ridge and shelled the town as Johnson's Army CS withdrew to a ridge east of it.
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May 19, 1864: Butterfield's (3rd) Division, XXth Corps US, moving southeast from McDow's, left the road here and marched to the Hawkins Price house, en route to Kingston The 1st and 2nd Divisions US, on roads west, had the same objective - an erratic move by Sherman who assumed that Johnston's Army CS had retreated on Kingston.
Cassville is a city in Flat Creek Township, Barry County, Missouri, United States.
Patrick H. Kelly, educator and member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
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Today the city is primarily known for the Stonefield Historic Site, Nelson Dewey State Park, and the Cassville Ferry, which runs between Cassville and a nearby landing in Iowa.
The first courthouse built in Cassville, while the county was known as Cass County, was burned by General Sherman's troops in 1864.
--other sources indicate it may have begun operations in 1973?--> between Cassville and Richfield Springs, New York, having purchased the trackage from the Erie Lackawanna Railway (EL).
He was born in Cassville, Missouri on September 14, 1910 and graduated from Greenwood Laboratory School at Southwest Missouri State Teacher's College; later becoming Southwest Missouri University in 1972, Springfield, Missouri in 1926.