{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@id":"https://omeka.lib.auburn.edu/iiif/68/manifest","@type":"sc:Manifest","label":"Rousseau and Wilson's Raids","description":"Joshua Shiver, &#8220;Rousseau and Wilson's Raids,&#8221; <em>Omeka at Auburn</em>, accessed October 11, 2026, <span class=\"citation-url\">https://omeka.lib.auburn.edu/items/show/68</span>.","thumbnail":{"@id":"https://omeka.lib.auburn.edu/iiif-img/61/full/129%2C200/0/default.jpg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://omeka.lib.auburn.edu/iiif-img/61","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"license":"http://www.example.org/license.html","attribution":"Provided by Example Organization","related":{"@id":"https://omeka.lib.auburn.edu/items/show/68","format":"text/html"},"metadata":[{"label":"Title","value":"Rousseau and Wilson's Raids"},{"label":"Subject","value":"Lee County, AL; Civil War; Union Army; Rousseau,  Major General Lovell Harrison; Sherman, General William T.; Decatur; Johnston, Major General Joseph; Atlanta; Confederate Army; Texas Hospital; Wilson, General James H.; Phenix City; Columbus, GA"},{"label":"Description","value":"On July 10, 1864, Major General William T. Sherman ordered Major General Lovell Harrison Rousseau to depart from Decatur, Alabama with approximately 2,500 men. Their goal was to sever the Montgomery and West Point railroads - a vital link for funneling supplies from central Alabama to Confederate Major General Joe Johnston's overwhelmed and outnumbered forces in Atlanta. Along the way, Rousseau's men were to destroy every scrap of government supplies or materials that could be used to aid the Confederate defense of Atlanta. \r\n\r\nLocal slaves in the Auburn/Opelika area funneled information to Rousseau and his men about the area's weak defenses. In Auburn, only a handful of patients at the Texas Hospital were able to offer even token resistance. As Rousseau and his cavalry rumbled through the streets of Auburn and then Opelika, they burned warehouses, burned train depots, the post office, and disabled the local rolling stocks. Union soldiers returned once again on April 15, 1865, this time under the command of Major General James H. Wilson. They swept through Auburn, Opelika, and Phenix City, before finally making their way across the 14th Street Bridge into their intended target, the massive industrial city of Columbus, Georgia."},{"label":"Creator","value":"Joshua Shiver"},{"label":"Publisher","value":"Alabama Cultural Resource Survey"},{"label":"Date","value":"2014-12-5"},{"label":"Contributor","value":"Joshua Shiver"},{"label":"Relation","value":"<a href=\"http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-3596\" target=\"_blank\">Encyclopedia of Alabama: Rousseau's Raid</a><br /><a href=\"http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1375\" target=\"_blank\">Encyclopedia of Alabama: Wilson's Raid</a><br /><a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1864/08/03/news/gen-rousseau-s-raid-highly-interesting-particulars-expedition-departure-decatur.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times July 27, 1864: Gen. Rousseau's Raid</a><br /><a href=\"http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/historicalmaps/civilwar/unionroutes.html\" target=\"_blank\">Routes of Union Activity in Alabama (Maps)</a>"},{"label":"Format","value":"JPEG and Text"},{"label":"Language","value":"English"},{"label":"Type","value":"Still Image and Text"}],"sequences":[{"@id":"https://omeka.lib.auburn.edu/iiif/68/sequence/normal","@type":"sc:Sequence","label":"Current Page Order","viewingDirection":"left-to-right","viewingHint":"paged","canvases":[{"@id":"https://omeka.lib.auburn.edu/iiif/68/canvas/p1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"Lovell Rousseau","thumbnail":{"@id":"https://omeka.lib.auburn.edu/iiif-img/60/full/170%2C200/0/default.jpg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://omeka.lib.auburn.edu/iiif-img/60","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"width":340,"height":400,"images":[{"@id":"https://omeka.lib.auburn.edu/iiif/68/annotation/p0001-image","@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://omeka.lib.auburn.edu/iiif-img/60/full/340%2C400/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","width":340,"height":400,"service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://omeka.lib.auburn.edu/iiif-img/60","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"on":"https://omeka.lib.auburn.edu/iiif/68/canvas/p1"}],"metadata":[{"label":"Title","value":"Lovell Rousseau"},{"label":"Source","value":"<a href=\"http://www.nps.gov/resources/person.htm?id=41\" target=\"_blank\">National Park Service: Lovell Rousseau</a>"}]},{"@id":"https://omeka.lib.auburn.edu/iiif/68/canvas/p2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"Major General James H. Wilson","thumbnail":{"@id":"https://omeka.lib.auburn.edu/iiif-img/61/full/129%2C200/0/default.jpg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://omeka.lib.auburn.edu/iiif-img/61","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"width":589,"height":914,"images":[{"@id":"https://omeka.lib.auburn.edu/iiif/68/annotation/p0002-image","@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://omeka.lib.auburn.edu/iiif-img/61/full/516%2C800/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","width":589,"height":914,"service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://omeka.lib.auburn.edu/iiif-img/61","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"on":"https://omeka.lib.auburn.edu/iiif/68/canvas/p2"}],"metadata":[{"label":"Title","value":"Major General James H. Wilson"},{"label":"Source","value":"<a href=\"http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/cwpb.06208/\" target=\"_blank\">Portrait of Major General James H. Wilson, Library of Congress.</a>"}]}]}]}