The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-06-25

in the army. He personally superintends
all the movements of his command. Iun-
derstand he has been appointed Major
General. No better appointment could be
made. He is always up and coming.
From Huntsville we marched to Chatta-
nooga. over the famous Chicamauga battle
field; crossed the creek and were soon on
the sacred soil of Georgia, where the foot
of Yankee had never before trOdden.-
Through Northern Georgia we founda very
poor class Of citizens, and miserably poor
land. Almost all the citizens are Union.-
1t was truely laughable to see the silly
looking girls and superanuated DANES
standing near their cabins looking with
faces beaming with honest pleasure to see
the lawful big crowd" of Yankees go by.
They almost all prophecied that, seeing
there was 80 very many OF us, that the war
would not last more than two or three
weeks. One section Of country particu-
larly desOlate is tract called the "P:ne
Barrens.' We travelled for miles and
found nothing but rattlesnakes and cop.
perheads; not exactly the animal now SO
prevalent at the North, but species al.
most as deadly Us they.
1t is needless for me, at this late date, to
chronicle what was done at Dalton the
boosted stronghold Of rebellion in the
West, and from where Johnston had prom
ised his army to march on Nashville this
ue. may Hcu1ion, enouSn, tnat the
lst Brigade, being part Of Mcpherson
army, formed the advance through Snake
Creek Gap, from which we drove the enc.
my's cavalry, and pushed on through until
we were in front of Resacca, eighteen miles
South of Dalton. This movement neces-
sarily compelled Johnston to fall back
from his strong position or lose his line OF
supplies. AS everybody knows, he fell
back on Resacca, and formed q new line
with the Ostanauly river in his front. Here
our onward progress was delayed for some
days, and on the l4th Of May our division
was ordered down the river four miles to
Lays ferry. and on the 18th, Col. E. w.
Rice, 7.h Iowa, commanding LIST Brigade,
was ordered across the river. The order
the tug of war; Gen. Walker. COM.
handing division Of Hardee's Corps, was
strongly intrenched ON the opposite side,
with battery in good range OF the cross
ing. POntoOns were prepared and were to
be placed in the water by detail from the
I'd and 7tb Iowa. Immediately before these
pontoons were two companies of sharp
shooters, vino were to take an old fat boa,
that lay in the river (Which was tiftyyards
wide) and cross, regardless of tho enemy
or their fire. AT the same time the66th In
diana infantry were to charge down to the
river bank, and simultaneously with Blod-
gets battery, open q heavy fire on the en-
envy across the river. It had the desired
effect. Theenemy were evidently surprised,
They broke and fed from the bank and the
sharp shooters effected a. crossing
evidently forgot that there was riv-
or between them and us in their haste
to escape onr fire, In three -fourths Of an
hour from this time pOntoon bridge was
laid and the LIST and ID brigades crossed
over, They were pleced under the com,
mand OF Col. Rice. Immediately on cross.
Ing the troops were concealed in heavy tim
Der on the Aight Of the road, while to The
left of the road . small force was kept In
plain view Of the enemy who were observ.
ing our movements from the other side q,
the held, which extended along the left 81
the road. Now that he had been driven
from the river, Walker appeared determin-
60 70 make the best Of bad Job by letting
sumcient number of troops cross to make
nics gobble" and then light down and
!ake Us IN out OF the damp. In the opih-
ion Of that sagacious rebel the moment At
last arrived; but in the meantime our own
lcommander, 0eh Rice, had not been idle.
The General commanding not thinking nc
south side OF the Oostanaula very safe lo4
caltU Just yet had kindly ordered the
rest q the division to report to. Col. Rice
n allnough ne vas not the ranking OFFICER.
ready Sds e sys5 ana The
of battle through the heavy timber Is Ina
right Of the road with the right resting on
the river, threw up : hasty work on the
LETT Of the road and facing the field in which
the "a brigade, Col. Burke, was posted
Ihe It'll Iowa, Maj. J. w. McMullen. was
now sent forward through the timber.
with orders to move to the front until n
line parallel with the south of the field was
reached, when they would wheel to the
lei :, IN line and feel for the enemy. AS I
sald before Walker was preparing to take
charge OF our squad. and was advancing in
me BY brigades, with his left resting rSenr
the road. just as he reached the. south
asde OF the field the IN fortunately reached
the same point audWheeled to the ipft and