The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-12-30
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Thrashes Cobb and the Militia.
An army correspondent Of Che Uincinnati COM
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Thrashes Cobb and the Mtittia,
An army correspondent Of the Cincinnati Com
B,erciai writes from Georgia as follovsi-
After literally riding over brigade Of Rebel
cavalry. vt JOnesboro, General Fitzpatrick, With
six thousand horses weHt 70 Gutiiu, where he
found the telegraph line in working order TO
Macon. Improving he opportunity, be seut his
compliments over the wires to Hudce, with an
assurance that he would be "happy to take
breakfast with him, next morning, in Macon
Hardce replied, inviting him to come on, as he
had "had the pleasure OF making General stone
mans aCQuain'auCo at the san place. and pro-
missing him StOueman', cell, as twas nov empty.
"l'U give HWdee one OF my sells thought
kilpaiIck, and so it happened, that at Griswods-
vile, ON the 2ld of November, when Harde'
ordered the militia to attack the Yankee cavalry,
KlpatuCk quietly withdrew his forces uuc Iyer-
iuE Woods Division Of the 10th Corps and that
dyisIou occupied a clump Of woods tAlt would
not he easily taken by the enemy.
Btigadier-Geuoral Charles C.. Wolcoh's Bril-
rade being In the advance, and behind hast'y
constructed rail barrIrldps, received the asslIl.
and rcpulsed it handsomely. Ignorant Of the
rUSg, the militia under General Cobb, of Ala.
bama, form rIy member of the luucl states
senate, boldly made the attack, and from two
O'Clock iu the afternoon until dark the battle
ragged with relentless cruelty. ha,,iug iu 1au
fields and iu three different columns, the militia
charged 20 less than siN times, iu the vain gnigJ-
yOr tO occupy the woods.
WolgUt's 81 glde worc armed with sixteen
nNNNiIrf ltAA AIINI'lN IhAi t' I.ht % NJ 't'tAA
steady nerves, and all they had to do was 10
pump into the Rebel ranks Storm Of leade nail.
lOokots.on were there from all par Of Shcrmal's
army, and they universally declare they never
saw such % fight i'm the world The en- my TO med
his lines with an the precision Ct battalion drill,
and then they moved forward like SO much
machinery. Officers swlre; men chCcrCd; drums
beat; banners waved bullets whlsuet towards
fed but, a. last, when this Cobb had been well
shelled, and his meal roughly ground 90 his own
mill, he Acknowledged the corn and lett The
field 20 reflect on his loss, twelve hundred
wounded, three hundred killed, and one hundred
missing The Rebel General Phillips was killed
and General Smith was wounded. An aw.u.
scene was that CORY field. Old men, with heads
that had been showed on, and young JSys- with
youths freshness sill visible on their up-turneI
faces, lay side by side, uided with bullets.
Here a head, there an arm, Wonder a leg aud the
wounded piled up with ana among the dead.
War seldom presents picture so tri-htiuI
WolCotts loss was only fourteen killed aud
forty three wounded. His brigade, the second In
Woods Division, behaved nOOiy.
The General was severely wounded In the leg
by o fragment of a she'll, and has accepted leave
bus Ohio, is about twenty. five years Of age, was
formerly colonel Of the 10th Ohio, AMI is pro
nounced by General Howard TO be "a brave and
excellent commander Ohio has reason 20 be
proud of Brigadier. General Charles G.. WOlcott
When Cobb reported that hc had fought inidn.
try instead of cavalry, and had been completely
used up by the mistake" General HlTdee fully
appreciated Kilpatrick's "sell.'