Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-11-02
From the Daily South Carolinian.
our Army correspondence.

From the Daily South Carolinian. ..~s
Our Army Correspondence.
<sJ1CKsoNvrLnE, Ala, October 16, 1864.
/ do not now precisely remember at what
point my last letter left the army Of Gen.
Hood, but theatory Of his extraordinary
: flank movement is so interesting that por.
lions Of itrepeatsd will be read with avidi-
~ by your readers. >,
After the unfortunate attack upon Altoo-
na by French's division, of SteHarts corps,
In which that rash and precipitate but gal
LIANT General had 900 men killed, wounded
and captured, the army obliqued to the left;
left, Rome to the right, and did not again
strike the railroad until it reached the vi
cinity Of Dalton Here Gen. Hood attacks
ed snd carried the enemy's works, The town,
garrison and stores. The FIRST impressions
ofthis battle only are at hand, and no eff,
fort st details would now be correct. From,
thence our army appears to have marched
back to Resaca, ten miles, destroying the
railroad, and, at the time Iwrite, that place
ID sithes in our hands or closely invested. +,
Thsre were two cavalry engagements near
Rome on "Wednesday and Thursday, in
whick Armisteads and Harrison's brigades
were engaged and defeated BY q asuperior
force Of the enemy. For the number Of
men engaged, our loss was very severe but
we inflicted heavy loss upon the enemy.
And this comprises all the fighting that has
taken piece recently, Our reverses at Al
toona and Rome are two-fold more than
made up by the success of the main army
at Dalton, snd the effectQal cutting of the
enemy's communication between Atlanta
and Chattanooga. We must have destroy.
ed all Of ffsy miles Of thatrailroad.
The march of Gen. Hoods army from
Palmetto to Dalton has been very rapid
The distance is all of lao miles, which was
passed over in thirteen days. 1t was the
intention of Gen. Sherman. to so strongly
fortify Atlanta that . small garrison could
successfully resist legion Of assailants, to
rsorganize and recruit his army from the
new draft Of 100000, and when autumn
leaves were falling, march down the Macon
and Western Railroad, and force our army
into Southwestern Georgia. It was the. i'm
preston among all his subalterns that he
would winter in Macon, and there either
dictate peace, or in the spring take the field:
for further aggressive movements. His
plans were not all matured, however, else
there was some difference betWixt him and
Lincoln; for he left his army and went to
Washington for the purpose Of consultation.
He was either there or on the road when
Gen. Hood struck his rear just above Ma
rietta. 81. sssE. - ,sz.:s
Whsther Sherman has the transportation
and the rations to make move to the rear
of Hood, will be determined in the future.
Of one thing for a certainty, Gen. Hood
has thrown everything upon the turn OF a
single die. If he is successful, all North,
ern Georgia will be cleared Of the enemy,
and the situation reversed back to what it
was when Johnston retreated from Dalton.
If,otherWise, let conjecture say the rest.
The country in all this region around a.
bout is the poorest in the South. This lit
tie town has, no doubt, more life in it than
was eyer known before. Heavy army Nagg-.
ons, artillery, and men belonging, to all
branches of the service, are crowdipg through
the narrow and badly laid off streets. No
doubt, the old citizens are startled from
their customary ease and Incidence, BY all
this stir and noise, and will hail the day
whsn wars rude alarms die away and will
be heard ne more forever.
It.ia surrounded BY mountains, Crock
ribbed and ancient as the sun" and pop.
uIsted bys people primitive in all their
ideas and habits. But the mountains a:
bound In iron ore and coal mines, which are,
extensively worked by men Of wealth, from
Selma and Mobile.
The Selma and Rome Railroad is COM
pleted 10 Blue Mountain, distance of one
hundred and ten miles, and the rest of the
road; fifty miles, is all graded and ready for
the iron. It would have long since been
completed had it not been for this war
Lessus hope that this extensive scope of
country, now SO peor and worthless, will,
under the benign influence Of internal i'm
proyements, freedom from Yankee rule, and
the blessings of independence, will soon
appear as if it had come from the regenera-
ting hand of the Creator. : -:
But if we lose the great stake for which
We are. now contendiug, with the skill of
the Saxon and the courage of the Indian,
these mouotains will become the fastnesses
of our best born children, from which they
will llsaliy forth ever and. anon, and strike a
manlyblow for freedom and for fame.
STANHOPE.
JACKSONVILLE, Ala, October II, 1864.
Events crowd so thick and fast, that it is
difficult indeed o distinguish them one from
the other, and stih forward-Northward,
onward-goes the army of Tennessee.
The railroad from Big Shanty to Ring
gold is well destroyed. Its true, that'some
Of the gsrrisons at intermediate points were
marched around, but Dalton, Tilton and sew
eral other important points have been taken.
Gen. Hood reached the former place on
Thursday last, and demanded an uncondi-
tional surrender, granting Col. johnson FIVE
minutes to hanl down his flag. The Colo:
mel begged for his negso garrison, that they
uonld ba treatad as prisoners of war-that