Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-08-03
Grand Results Of the Battle of the Ar
my of the Tennessee-The Situation
Important Changes-PrOsPects.
ARMY OF THE OHIO,
BEFORE ATLANTA, July 26, 1854.

I'm pOrtant Changes-RrOspectss
ARMY OF THE ONO,
BEFORE ATLANTA, July 26, 1864.
As the details of the battle of the 22d
come in, its importance and rank among the
great battles of the war become more appa-
rent. Never, perhaps in any campaign,
has more desperate or more successful fight
ing under disadvantageous circumstances
occurred. Gettysburg, with its thousands
of dead strewing the ground-StOne River,
with its frighttul losses-Chickamau
than which no bloodier field can be found
present no such scenes as were here wit
messed. The design of the rebel General
was a daring one, and was so nearly suc-
cessfu, that what the results of its entire
success would have been, may readily be
perceived. Nothing but the most persistent
courage and desperate fighting saved the
. Army of the Tennessee from a complete
rout Simultaneous with an impetuous at
tack of a well appointed column on the eX-
treme flank, its commander fell, and parts
of the line were broken through by overpow-
ering masses. Assaults were repused from
the front, and then lines were faced to the
rear rand attacks repulsed from thatdirection.
This was particularly the case in the 18th
Corps, where the rebel dead, strewed in
its front tells ofthe desperation Otthe contest.
In such contest it is impossible to speak OF
the doings of regiments or bodies. 1t SEEM
ed to be a contest where companies and indi-
yiduals fought as reason dictated. Divisions
beset on every side by an impetroGs foe,
foughtby detachments: corps and corps COM
maiders were lost sight of. and divisions
and brigades forgotten. When they were
fought as commands they were marched
from one end of a ridge to another or
fought from one side of work, then from
the other. But the troops, tried on many
sanguinary fields, were not to be thrown
into disorder or confusion. Assaults were
received and repulsed, and attacks were
made and improved. On the extreme right
of this army in front of Gen. Woods divis-
ion, the battle could be plainly seen from
the headquarters of Gen. Sherman. Near
the right of the line, Capt. Glass battery of
20-pound PARROTS, was stationed, and the
regiments supporting it were driven away
at the first onset of the enemy. Gen. Wood
observing the battery deserted, and the en-
envy endeayoring to carry il off, sent his
reserve force to retake it. This force, NOV
ing through ravines, was not observed by
the enemy, and gained the work just at the
moment that an additional force OF the en-
emy, who had been sent to assist in carry
ing off the guns, mounted the work, and
here was seen by Generals Sherman, Scho-
conflicts that soldier ever engaged in. In
the suspense and intense excitement of the
occasion, it seemed to last for half an hour,
when in reality it was of short duration,
and finally resulted in the free use of the
bayonet. From an extended point on the
road leading to the city, near the lett of
General Hascalls line, batteries were
brought into position, that played with
ffightft1l havoc into the flanks of the dar-
ing enemy. These shells, plowing through
their ranks, already thinned by the de-
structive musketry of our infantry-these
missiles, coming with their peculiar scream
ing noise, scattering death amidst them
unnerved them, and sent them in confusion
back over the field they had so nearly won.
Their backs were no sooner turned, than
our men jumped to their feet, and with
wild, exultant cheer, sent a volley through
their wasted lines, that told with fearful
effect. Thrice their colors fell with the
bearers, but each time they were picked up,
and finally borne off by the few who were
left to tell the story of their gallant fight.
Such conflicts are beyond the control of
officers of any grade, and none but the
brave, heroic men who carry the muskets,
deserve credit for such bitter. decisive re-
pulses. Men, with such hearts, with cour-
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