, 1864-07-17
FROM sNElar1An,s ARMY.
Correction OF False 8fAxements-The
Flank movemcnt-ftosv Ii was Ooue
-Movem~nIs III TFooP<-Operntton
up 10 July 1lth,

[special Correspondence OF tho Chicago Tsabnne.l
* Inz FIELD MAR TnE cnArrAmoocuxk,l
July 9th, 1851.
Perhaps 1t Ia as well to correct false state-
ments OF the operations Of the army ~ TO
add new. facts. The press Of late has becn
fairly alive with statements 80 utterly at Va
1innce with truth ss to be ludlcrous TO those
conversaut with the history Of the campaign
Some Of these are contained In letters dated
If not written In the field. Many OF then
originate at points bet .ecn the rear and the
North; Nashville Ia decidedly tho most pro-
.lffc-Yhnt~ city; In urmy no's, oeAfs tue
same relation to the truth In the Held that
Cairo held to the Vlcksbusg campaign. II It
were not that these statements are some
times aeeertcd as truths, and ono dag may
furnish materials for history, they would
hardly be worth contradiction
Let me give you few: specimens. 1t has
been stated that Hooker carried Lost Noun
1nan and schoaeld Pine Mountain. Elsbos-
ate accounts have been published OF both tho
operations. Hooker one correspondent
uvows, carried three lines of breaatEorks on
Lost Mountain at the point Of the bayonkt,
captured 10 cannon, ], 200 prisoners and {, 900
stand of email arms. The whole statement
IL fntrication-the work Of q mind more men,
dacious than brilliant. No bayonet charges
were made, not even an aeBault, upon Lost
Mountain. Hooker Was never In its front.
Ills position was before Pine Mountstn,
which the enemy eTacuated when It Was dis
covered that Hooker had moved q heavy col
umn nrount Ito base, and WIS about iso}atiny
the troops which held 1t. The mountain WAS
eracuated precisely In that orderly and quilt
+ manner. The labor and battle Of our troops
ot the 10th corps to obtain Ii was was with the
spade md gun IN the approach to It and In
iinmenec labor nlopg Its northwest base A
division Of Folks corps held It and had been
gone but two hours when Hooker occupied
It. The capture OF Pine Mountain settled the
tnte OF Lost Mountain. The position WRs no
| longer tenable., echoae1d moved into thelE
abandoned works without Opposition: :at day.
were not captured. In fact we have captures
| no caInou since Resaca. Twelve hundred
| prisoners were not captured on either o,
| both mountains. nor were o score- Three
Thousand stand OF small arms were not captut
| ed, nor hare as many been taken on the whole
camp align. Of6uch material is the "cheaK
pondcnt Of the New York Her1ld was a fen
days since sent north OF the Ohio, to ,remail
during the var, for publishing contrabant
news. His letter WAS written At LoulsylIl,
and dated in the field. It may be enterpris
to write from the Ohio river and date In th'
|
possible when truth is not Or cannot be ac
ceseible. Nor is this thing confined to til
Nashville letter writer's. Letters have beel
written from the field giving officers crcdi
for doing things which they have not done.
There is falsehood enough in official r.
ports, injustice enough in promotions. Th
press cannot run successful race With ger
eral officers and the Senate. It can only COT
rect part Of their fa1sehoois and repair bu
q moiety Of their injustice, and that onl
when m honest effort 1s made to obtain m
publish the truth :
SHERMAN FLAMES 1ouSsToE AGAIN.
; The telegraph will have Informed you {
the general movement which forced Johr
6ton to abandon his line OF the Keuesaw. II
! previous letters have described the position
! which the two armies occupied after the al
sault Of the eth. The army of the Ohit
Gen. Schoheld, held the extreme right, 0
: BY stoneman's cavalry = division. fhe hn arm
Of the Cumberland had the center. it's line