Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-08-13
OUR ARMY coRREspoNDENr.
BEroRE ATLANTA,


BEFoRE ATLANTA,
July 81, 1864.
DEAR TEIsoRApH ,--wben last ! wrote TO
you we were lying In what was called TIE
MONDAY Greek, the line extending from Lost
Mountain over Pine Knob to Kensaw Noun.
tsips, (sometimes called the Twin Sisters.)
Here the rebel General Polk was killed. bnt
as Harper has given this an illustration will
pass by with this correction: Lost Mountain
was taken by the 23d Army Corps tArmy OF
che ohio,) instead Of as Harper says, by the
goth Army Corps.
Pine Knob is honor enough for the gallaot
2Oth, 10 one day. This was June 18th. Butwe
soon found another line works and much strong
er than the others. The rebels had Withdrawn
their left from Lost Mountain and their center
from Pine Knob, but still held the Kenisaw
with their right Here our battery had its full
share of shelipg. Shells bursied all aropod Us,
but happily none Of US we're harmed. We all
kept pretty close TO the works as we had moth
ing to do at that time. Infantry ore fnuch more
afraid OF shot aud shell than of musket balls,
but we artillery men would much rather hear
the boom bang" Of the shell than the whiz
Of the minaie The former we can dodge, but
not the latter.
Well, Mr.. Sherman crowded Jounie so that
on the night of 10th be found himself compelled
to withdraw bis left aud center still farther, aud
on the morning Of the 10th we found ourselves
before Marietta On the 22d the rebels
charged our right wing in heavy columns, but
were repulsed with heavy loss. We were OF
engaged in this affair but we saw part Of it..
Our men picked up 1900 killed and wounded
besides what the rebels carried away with them
Nothing OF consequence occurred from this
until the 9th. We were not engaged 10 this
fight, but could zee the greater part Of it. As
the papers have made so much blowing about
this days fight, will pass it by. e
On the night OF July %, johnson evacuated
Marietta and Kenisaw, and on the morning Of
the Sd we followed up. General Ward. COM
mandiDg the 81 Division of the goth Corps
followed up SO close, that General Hooker came
out and halted the column aud sent his orderly
after General Ward to know what be was up
to. Why he was going to take those works.
(pointing to strong eutrenchments in front
But says Hooker, you can't charge those works
with your solitary DIVISION If you do you will
lose your whole command. So it was, be got
one of hi, batteries (battery I, lst Michigan,)
very badly cut up. The rebels did not stop
here long, as Shermau's everlasting faux move
ments sent him on again. About this time one
of the rebel pickets when asked by one of ours
commands our Corps, but Sherman commands
the army. Wben he says forward march, al
we have to do is to rear face and 60 on. But
one thing we dislike is be keeps us in the from
rauk.
About three o'clock in the afternoon of th'
4th, as the Sd Division was moving to the right
we saw force head Of us and General Ward
| (who by the way was celebrating little tba
day, and was perhaps little bliud in conse
| guence,) ordered Us to fortify, expecting aD al
tack from the enemy We saw battery frn
in the opposite direction, and GeSeral War
soon came TO the conclusinsioD that we nee'
not fortify much. Our boys knew from ih'
first it was u Union batteiy. for we saw
when i. first opened and examined it through 1
field glass, and told the infantry that they were
working for nothing. 1t turned out to be the
23d Corps in front Of rs.
On the 5th tie rebels found themselves or
the north bauk of the river with the Yanks.
close to their heels and on the 10th they with
drew across the river. But there has been SC
much said Of this will pass it by.
Gu the river we rested several days. whicl
helped as much. While here went to Mar
rielta and found it quite pretty town, abou
the size of Ashtabua, which is large for
Southern town. The day was there sa
six large trains unloading supplies for the arm
Marietta is now our base ofsupplies.
We were 10 the Hght of the goth but non
of our boys were hurt. / will send you an a
! count clip from the Chattanooga Gazett
which is q very good account Of how it o.
peared 10 front of us, much better than ca
l. write it. Your readers know as much abo,
the Mcpherson fight as do. The Army OF Il
n Tennessee, under General Howard, wen: arouu
3 to the right on the 2elh and had smother iigh
the rebels commiDg 10 attack them as th'
: were on the move. They made several succe
sive charges on the 18th Corps. bat were ban
y somey repulsed each time. The 6ght was
M 40 open Geld, and our boys were somewh
excited during the first two or three charge
ss but after that they waited until the reb
we're close 90 to them. when they would bla
re away. have not heard the losses on eiit
Ill side. We are now within mile aud half
Atlanta, and behind works, which il we had
them at Chicksmasga we would have whipI
Il the hosts which Bragg brought against Us.
Wv can see the city from neighboring bill throu
le the tree tops. There are some very fine bs
en ings TO be seen there. But this view form
re- Mount OF Horeb, as it were, does not sati
want to see the whole city aud possess
DC land. You will probably hear good news fr
this quarter soon, in the meantime be pati
~ and wait. ttt