GEN. SHERMAN'S ARMY.; ANOTHER BATTLE ON TUESDAY. Published: June 2, 1864
GEN. SHERMAN'S ARMY.; ANOTHER BATTLE ON TUESDAY. Johnston Makes the Attack, but is Repulsed. The Railroad in Our Possession Near Marietta. Supplies and Reinforcements Going Forward. The Advance Upon Atlanta Speedy Capture of the Place Probable Johnston Reported Falling Back on Athens Bishop Polk Going to Macon. The Forward Movement from Resaca Incidents of the Advance. OUR CAPTURES AT ROME. Casualties in Sherman's Army.
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, June 1 -- 7:30 A.M.
Major Gen. Dix:
An unofficial dispatch received here at 4 o'clock this morning, dated yesterday, 31st, at Kingston, reports that Major HOPKINS, of Gen. STONEMAN'S Staff, came from the front this afternoon. He says "the rebels attacked at 7 1/2 o'clock this morning, and at 10 o'clock the affair was over; enemy repulsed, and our left reached railroad near Marietta." To accomplish this object for several days had been the purpose of Gen. SHERMAN's movements. Additional forces are reaching him and ample supplies.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, June 1.
A special dispatch to the Evening Telegraph says: CINCINNATI, Wednesday, June 1.
News has been received here direct from Kingston, Georgia, by telegraph, which says that Gen. SHERMAN arrived at Dallas last Saturday, and pushed on reinforcements to MCPHERSON, who was to reach Atlanta by next Saturday, unless a heavy force of rebels was not on the way. At last accounts he was at Sweetwatertown, and had driven the rebels across Powder and Nickajack Creeks, and got possession of the bridge across the Chattahoochie, twelve miles from Atlanta.
The main army, under Gen. THOMAS, is advancing, and he occupied Marietta on Monday, taking some 400 prisoners, and a railroad train of sick and wounded rebels, with several cannon and some small arms.
It is believed that Atlanta will be in our possession by next Sunday.
It is said that Gen. JOHNSTON, with fragments of his disorganized army, has crossed the Chattahoochie, and is falling back to Athens, east from Marietta about fifty miles.
POLK, with an army of all sorts of men, mostly conscripts and "Pemberton boys," is retreating to Macon, on the Central Georgia road.
Correspondence of the Cincinnati Comercial.
RESACA, Ga., Thursday, May 26.
ANOTHER GRAND FLANKING MOVEMENT.
The designs of SHERMAN are now somewhat less mysterious. Last night HOWARD, PALMER, HOOKER, LOGAN and DODGE's Corps were at, and slightly beyond Dallas -- a point on the flank of the rebel position in the Allatoona Mountains, in what is known as Hickory Gap, ten miles southeast of Etowah River. At the point where the railroad pierces the Allatoona Mountains, forty miles from Atlanta, JOHNSTON had halted for resistance, occupying a very natural and powerfully fortified position. Before we could attack him in front, it was necessary to to cross the Etowah River, and march up the steep and rugged slopes of the mountains which abut on the stream. When the army moved on Monday, SCHOFELD's Corps moved to Etowah, and succeeded in laying pontoons, making, the white at several points, demonstrations leading the enemy to believe that we proposed to attack him directly in front.
While SCHOFIELD was thus engaged, the rest of the army marched rapidly to the Etowah River, and crossed without serious opposition at a point about fifteen miles below the railroad bridge. Immediately resuming the line of march, and with but light skirmishing, reached Dallas last evening -- about thirty miles from Atlanta, and within a short march of Marietta, a station on the railroad directly in rear of the rebel position at Allatoona. SCHOFIELD has crossed the river near Etowah Station, and is moving down the ridge to join the main body, his rear-guard skirmishing constantly with the enemy.
JOHNSTON is again completely outgeneraled. He is thus compelled to abandon his strong position in the Allatoona Mountains, and fight, if at all, in the open country south of there. Cannonading has been heard to-day, and the impression prevails that a battle is in progress to-day near Marietta.
A courier from JOHNSTON to his Chief of Cavalry, Gen. JACKSON, was captured day before yesterday bearing a note of inquiry from the former, asking immediate information of SHERMAN's movements on his flanks. The courier was taken before Gen. THOMAS, who removed his clothes and dressed a trusty scout of his own in them, with an answer to JOHNSTON's message. What this answer was is not generally known; but it is presumed that it did not communicate the movements of our forces with exactness.
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GEN. SHERMAN'S ARMY.; ANOTHER BATTLE ON TUESDAY. Johnston Makes the Attack, but is Repulsed. The Railroad in Our Possession Near Marietta. Supplies and Reinforcements Going Forward. The Advance Upon Atlanta Speedy Capture of the Place Probable Johnston Reported Falling Back on Athens Bishop Polk Going to Macon. The Forward Movement from Resaca Incidents of the Advance. OUR CAPTURES AT ROME. Casualties in Sherman's Army.
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, June 1 -- 7:30 A.M.
Major Gen. Dix:
An unofficial dispatch received here at 4 o'clock this morning, dated yesterday, 31st, at Kingston, reports that Major HOPKINS, of Gen. STONEMAN'S Staff, came from the front this afternoon. He says "the rebels attacked at 7 1/2 o'clock this morning, and at 10 o'clock the affair was over; enemy repulsed, and our left reached railroad near Marietta." To accomplish this object for several days had been the purpose of Gen. SHERMAN's movements. Additional forces are reaching him and ample supplies.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, June 1.
A special dispatch to the Evening Telegraph says: CINCINNATI, Wednesday, June 1.
News has been received here direct from Kingston, Georgia, by telegraph, which says that Gen. SHERMAN arrived at Dallas last Saturday, and pushed on reinforcements to MCPHERSON, who was to reach Atlanta by next Saturday, unless a heavy force of rebels was not on the way. At last accounts he was at Sweetwatertown, and had driven the rebels across Powder and Nickajack Creeks, and got possession of the bridge across the Chattahoochie, twelve miles from Atlanta.
The main army, under Gen. THOMAS, is advancing, and he occupied Marietta on Monday, taking some 400 prisoners, and a railroad train of sick and wounded rebels, with several cannon and some small arms.
It is believed that Atlanta will be in our possession by next Sunday.
It is said that Gen. JOHNSTON, with fragments of his disorganized army, has crossed the Chattahoochie, and is falling back to Athens, east from Marietta about fifty miles.
POLK, with an army of all sorts of men, mostly conscripts and "Pemberton boys," is retreating to Macon, on the Central Georgia road.
Correspondence of the Cincinnati Comercial.
RESACA, Ga., Thursday, May 26.
ANOTHER GRAND FLANKING MOVEMENT.
The designs of SHERMAN are now somewhat less mysterious. Last night HOWARD, PALMER, HOOKER, LOGAN and DODGE's Corps were at, and slightly beyond Dallas -- a point on the flank of the rebel position in the Allatoona Mountains, in what is known as Hickory Gap, ten miles southeast of Etowah River. At the point where the railroad pierces the Allatoona Mountains, forty miles from Atlanta, JOHNSTON had halted for resistance, occupying a very natural and powerfully fortified position. Before we could attack him in front, it was necessary to to cross the Etowah River, and march up the steep and rugged slopes of the mountains which abut on the stream. When the army moved on Monday, SCHOFELD's Corps moved to Etowah, and succeeded in laying pontoons, making, the white at several points, demonstrations leading the enemy to believe that we proposed to attack him directly in front.
While SCHOFIELD was thus engaged, the rest of the army marched rapidly to the Etowah River, and crossed without serious opposition at a point about fifteen miles below the railroad bridge. Immediately resuming the line of march, and with but light skirmishing, reached Dallas last evening -- about thirty miles from Atlanta, and within a short march of Marietta, a station on the railroad directly in rear of the rebel position at Allatoona. SCHOFIELD has crossed the river near Etowah Station, and is moving down the ridge to join the main body, his rear-guard skirmishing constantly with the enemy.
JOHNSTON is again completely outgeneraled. He is thus compelled to abandon his strong position in the Allatoona Mountains, and fight, if at all, in the open country south of there. Cannonading has been heard to-day, and the impression prevails that a battle is in progress to-day near Marietta.
A courier from JOHNSTON to his Chief of Cavalry, Gen. JACKSON, was captured day before yesterday bearing a note of inquiry from the former, asking immediate information of SHERMAN's movements on his flanks. The courier was taken before Gen. THOMAS, who removed his clothes and dressed a trusty scout of his own in them, with an answer to JOHNSTON's message. What this answer was is not generally known; but it is presumed that it did not communicate the movements of our forces with exactness.
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