The Xenia sentinel. [volume] (Xenia [Ohio]) 1863-186?, 1864-08-02
Richmond view Of affairs at At.
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From the Richmond Examiner, July 10Th.
The eve of battle in Georgia seems to
have arrived The enemy have crossed
the river and encanped within six miles
of Atlanta. The dispatches which give
this news contain the farewell address of
Johnston and geBeTaborder Of Hood. These
papers are marked bys tie proper tone,
and if the army is inspiredzb by the same
| loyalty, the removal Of Johnston, however
detesable, It may be, that the urgency Of
the country Situation ishould furnish the
means and occ4sionfor the gratifcadonaof
deliberate and long abiding personal ma
Lightly, theresult may perhaps prove bene-
! fgal- to the country. No General can rem
der. full service who is not fully sustained
( by his GoverHmeut. JohRSion was not,
bat nothing will ibezleft undOne tosustain
Hood. There isra point of similarity be-
tween the second removal Of Johnston and
the first, in 1862. Then, as now, the cry
was raised 10 public thlt be would, not
6ght while he was daily repeating his
four demands=-uaet oflWhieh was @ that
Jackson sbQuld be hTnpght from the val
ley to the Fear4of Mcclellan, But there
were always good reasons why they could
not be complied with while Johnston held
boommat d. When Lee oecuBied bis Bla.-e
the troops poured up from the South; and
Jackson qPpaaredTin the rear of the enc
my and famous victory was the result. In
this year Johnston has placed Sherman in
such a place that, If the Forrsst-Lee cav
AIRY were put. on biz -eomnlanieations,2be
would at,oRce be compelled to;tetrsat Or
attack the Confederate intrenchments,i in
either of. which eases he would certainly
be destroyed. But the cayaIFy could not
come, NOR the Trans !Blississffpt u ARMY while
JUhust6a remained IN eommandg The
campaign has thus dragged through two
.mOnths.7l But if it iscoutinued a week
longer we shall hear of Forrest and hear
Of Smith. Perhaps Sherman is aware Of
the fact, and so advances boldly on tie
trenehasr Of Atlanta. No mere afauking
anaE.a lie will fight even over eintreneh-
ments, while he has only one army to
fight, and will almost certainly be5destroy-
ed-as he would have been at Kenesaw
and j Resaca,2 If he could have been pre-.
vailed on to persistlii bis partial ussauFts.'
Hignowrhgped that be Is about ta7-m;rke.
his final assault; the army is in admirable
order, and, if It's morale is unshaken, the
result cannot fail to be that victory which.
Gen JOhnston-Aas patienely-prtp5red 6nd
fairly earned for his country, though not
for himself, f,d,yus .rse9- o. iaa =i..e.r /
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-sRIRMISH AT PEACH TREE RIDGE.
From the Richmond Examiner, July y'2Ist. 10
f. There was no news received Yesterday
from Georgia, either through official OF
private soupces, gflf a battle had taken
place We, should have heard of it. We
must, therefore, infer that the situation is
unchanged since our last adyices, when, it
will be Fe6oIceted, that tHelRh0ls Of Sher-
man 81 army hasicrOssed the east ban X Of
ChattahOoehee and sat down before Allan
tai s.n ,,lr.., 20 ,rrg. Z, 5. .54.,f +.
At late hour last night We received tho |
dispatch published in another eolumn,an
nouneing the skiFnish at Peach Tree
creek. Peach Tree'creek Is SMALL stpoanl,
which, taking its. rise five or six miles
northwest of Atlanta, flows ina south
westerly direction and empties into the /
Chattah0ochee near the railroad bridge, /
and nearly due west Of Atlahtal E0ur
right is believed itororest upon the stream
and be protected on Its flank by it. r.u /
This skirmisa is an auspicious beginning .
for Gen. Hood.