The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-10-21
WAR NEWS.

Official Information has cen received Of the
surprise, on last Friday evening, If one of Nose
by's camps, in the Blue Ridge Mountain, near
Piedmont, Va, and the capture Of his artillery,
CO: s.stiDg of four guns, with muniti, mplt'.
All the accounts from Georgia concur in sta
ting that the Chattanooga and Atlanta railroad
SHERMAN main line of communication, and
the only one remaining over which he could
draw his supplies-is in almost complete posses
Son of the Confederates. The latest kilograms
from Chattanooga are up to nine o'clock On Sat-
urday night last. AT that time Hood had cap
tured Dalton, making prisoners of its garrison,
and had advanced part of bis force to point
north of Tunnel Hill in the direction of Chatta-
uooga and within less than thirty miles of that
place. All OF Wheeler's cavalry, reported to num-
Der from 8, 900 to 10000 men, are said to be be-
tween Dalton and Chattanooga. Resaca and
Rome are in the hands OF the Confederates, and,
if we may credit the Southern accounts, the rail-
road in the rear of Sherman from Big Shanty to
Ostenaua, has been effectually destroyed, and
also every bridge between Marietta and Dali
ton. kenesuw mountain has been r occupied by
the Confederates who have once more strongly
fortified it, SO that they now hold both ends of
the railroad as well DIS some of. the intermediate
points. 1t is stated, however, that General
Sherman has one hundred days rations at Attain
ia, and that Chattanooga and Knoxville have
supplies for six months.
Reports were prevalent in Washington on Sat-
urday, brought by farmers from Montgomery
county, that bands of guerllas had crossed the
Potomac river and were committing depredatons
throughout the county. One party, it is stated,
numbering about 300, and commanded by
White, visited Poolesville, ransacked the stores,
and then burned the place. Another band is
said to have crossed near the Monocacy, and to
have moved down the Rockville road.
Official information has been received at Wash
ngton to the effect that, on the evening of the
l4th instant, Colonel Ganesvoort commanding
the 18th New York cavalry, surprised Moseby's
camp, near Piedmont, Va, and captured all of
his artillery, consisting of four guns, caissons,
&C.; also, Il number ofprisoners and horses. The
captured guns have been sent to this city.
General Price left Boonvile, Missouri on
Thursday evening last, moving in the direction Of
Lexington. The Federal cavalry under General
Cooper were defeated at Pisgah, Cooper county,
on Wednesday, and were subsequently reported
10 have fallen back to Sedalia.
Moseby's raid on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road was quite Il serious affair." from the amount
of damage done and of plumber carried off,
Seven cars were destroyed and the engine badly
injured. Two Paymasters, Majors Ruggles and
Moore, having in their possession over two hun.
drcd thousand dollars in greenbacks, together
with six other Federal officers, were captured
Adams Express Company lost from four to six
thousand dollars, and a considerable quantity of
clothing, besides money and other valuabes was
taken from the passengers on the train.
In the recent attack upon Alatoona, Georgia,
by portion of Hoods forces, two Illinois regi-
ments, with the exception of one company, were
captured by the Confederates.
An arrival at Fortress Monroe yesterday re-
ports that up to the latest adyices all was quiet at
the front of the Army of the Potomac.
An Associated Press telegram from Washing
ton states that the enemy occupy Fishers Hill,
in the Shenandoah Valley, and are erecting for
tfcations there