New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-08-31
FROM sITEEBAN's ARMY.
PROGRESS of the CaupaiSn-Crtisng of siie
Encny fsOm his Baso-The Attack on
Dalton ana R:epEIse OF Tire EEcny-CSn-
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From our Special Correspondent
| RIeET MIG OF THE Army, s.N. 90 AvrsSTl
AueDss 49, 1861.
The past week or ten days has witnessed little in
tbs operations before Atlanta worthy to occupy tie
valuable space Of TIE TRIBUNE. There have been
more days of preparation than Of action-peIhaps
should also sey--of rest. Gen. Schotelt, who has
continued 10 occupy the right has strengthened his
position and steadily pressed the enemy back ~ron
be defensive works, which extend in o direction
neary Northwest and Southeast along tho crest Of
be ridge east Of Utoy Creek. Hood has extended
hslef g match our right, and evidently suspects
vehs,esOne designs upon his communications. The
Haeon Road is his chief concern-neJt, that tC
lWeSa. point and Montgomery. The Augusta Road
IL "a -a.,ed heyend tha possibility OF rcP giIg. o.
he ght Of the 18th, Gen. Fitzpatrick whose recov
wy nom his wound and return TO service is haie(
lts happy augury for the army, cut the West POM
Road al Fairb,rn Il miles from Atlanta, and burn
ed he Depot. He is now again on the war path
Ilad wlbe heard from at some valuable point OF the
Isnemy's communications. As al Offset, the Rebel
leAyalry, as you will have heard, made IN attack IL
lOrce at Dalton, tore up The Railroad lor some dis
Innce and invited the place 10 surrender. They
Hadn't see IT, and made The best defense they could
I,ntl Gen. Stcduan came down from Chattanooga
l,i.h two white regiments and ono eolored, and
|rasel the siege. lie fought tho Rebels four hours
lad finally DISCONNECTED anl drove them Of.
Our loss was slight; the encmy', Of course, thre.
lor four times over ours. Our mail communication
have boon interrupted for three days only. We shall
Ipize our letters and papers all The more for the
Ibriel abstinence. The road was to be in RAINING
order again to-day. In the rold-sneshing business
vehave always got tls star. OF the Jolnuies. Capt
lLord, of Sonemans stlf, who niracn'ou-ly escaped
Isad has returned 70 Gen. Sehofeds Headquarters,
lnys man, before he was surrounded. end
bigcd to succumb ton superior force and to general
Etigue, burned two hundred and seyerty-fye nail.
bod cars seventeen locomotives and al tie depOti
Eoug an immense extent of track. Many Of these
Buildings contained Rebel supplies which, on &C.
pount Of previous attacks the Augusta Road, had
bsen sent round and accumulated Oh the Macon
koad at Gordon and other places.
Many Of these cars were, doubtless, old and
Lperlnous stock; but the dopots, locomotives and
tpphes by Rebel confession, also irreparable.
Die exchange Of these for the prisoners horses and
Equipments they captured, though doubtless an i'm
bortant acquisition TO them, viii hardly pay as q
licady business. 1t will doubtless increase tie
thsnces Of destructive raids upon our rear; but
bnecuents have already far progressed to rep. 4cC
the losses in this arm of the service. The prime
khect vas the release Of large number Of Union
prisoners held at Macon, and the heroic effort ought
p secure for all engaged in it the admiration OF
tyey patriot throughout the land
Heavy ordnance has been brought up and put in
position within reach OF the city, and its effect viii
p tried before long.
| The difficult nature Of the ground for military
Iperatons. and the lack Of roads on which 70 move
nasses oft1oops with thelnecessary transportation
IHatteIs already referred TO in previous letters
Iarst account, in part, for any delays which have
occurred. The country around the Southwest Of
H. city is the poorest, and consequently the least
approved by settlement OF any part of Georgia We
IAye yot passed. through. ThoscleaFings are genor-
ply small, the land light and sandy or covered with
roncs The only thrifty crop noticed throughout
IAs region is children. Tow-beaded children by the
PAR score may be met with in every Jog shanty.
isitb pale and sckly looking mothers, whose chief
foncern evidently is how TO feed so many little
months. The husband is in the Army-a volunteer
tonseript
fbThe soldiers, Rebel or Union, have robbed every
household OF what little they had to sustain
ffe and our headquarters constantly visited by
fomen end children--sometimes by the remnants
p a man on canes or crutcles, asking for bread
Ehey are never sent empty away. II is true The
kebels have taken back all the effective fighting
fcn and working people, 10 carry on the wal
hyainst the Union, and left the decrepid, Their
Ives and children, Tor us to feed The instinct Of
ttalis,ion whispers: "Let them starye;" but
ankS 10 the good which the Iavages of var have
VI left untouched in the heart OF man, the soft
see Of woman, and the plying look OF furnishing
s4drood eth assert heir p4vn. have DeYeI