Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1864-10-21
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,,ear rcsama ni the ctuiA!''''S Il! l'"'1'
army 40 to the Ii, list. !r.!" "i'';h 1! "'l
! 10 srsn that Shcrmnn's report =! h'a battle $
Alatoona waa diresS ard nast "h'a'"ei'!'
fslssf:oud The Mail saya
! Our earlier Reports OF die movas!'il;5 y OF
,avai,y wore quite correct. me Wn9 20
n.nlurod, lu. uIGrsiG occupied as;tr the eieiHj
j had retired.
The Alataonu a!tim tr"I-r'r'i Ga tito IN
IL Was Conducted hy 0tn4rhl ffsnch. 10:
,iyi-inf. Of that officer i0rrioa INA i''t WIZ
ri Srswari'. cnrps, a,t placed tRrt'."Hs lins'h Ii
rhs alyuu,, upon tie railtaad, Wa ":dH7t'
| i,rwn7l ui; q tnur II obse77GNIin. "a f''',"
ins thu vicinity Of A'atq ona. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS "ef'
J,.,.,y.rs,i and carried With sae: e'l, that Gee
.s,nn:,ai-u1 to was cGn,f.ucj. A. GS"T7 fr'h'
! nf d.i.,nce TIC Resistance WIS i':'i:. a.: y
t,,,,,h cur ;f.rIns rclchrt :ha d*FJ' VIZ: a
romnsru .iyu.v small loss. it"'e CInar'l o! " 4:
| YEA, held. 1t decided [, attack thu t"": e"
us, abou, bali m!!. beyon'i. srd 10 WAC" t."
cnYmy WAS Supposed I, have iorl.he' It 'h'e'
In the assault which followed ons casusl:ie! We,
more numerous than before n!l ws ware sorccd
:, retir. II WAS now nearly G;sh; ani tl.ie
| being no remit; r:ement+ a; hand "a Huss "a'e
csutrsrl.d to iha lett III the cope
| In this IrannnisaSnce la !o!Is W3 Ihs. Hi!ir
ons hundred iii ini1 y-nine mel. tie S.itsh'i
Of the troops is highly eHs0nendad by Heiets'
Hood Tho report OF secG;! attack ana c"p :
turo OF tie works by tuo EN-: c cGrL5 ca"sii.'l
ia mistake OF the press sSeus NJ t:sWiiaa VIZ
re I'd upon upfnunded and eKagGt i"'ea runners
| Al Ca,teespie the nnuIny hava erscted .ilpofb
fat fcsli,ne, 1vaiing us Capt. Malt OF tho scoaa
REPORTS, those around Atlanta III: eHeih? hsF"
,nn.sei large quantities Of supplies AZ this r'I''
THE PRESENT MoTEHES.
Tho "Msil's" correspondent; write, ''ndeF
dars Of R!ua Mountain. October II, q. s1i-
lows:
The roJySmaLl acrosa tie Issnaasea RIVER.
An inklinp of which / DISPATCHED ytn from
psllsdcpa, has received ohecEmate, ana our
advance towards Glnsor's landing seems to he
turned in another AMI moro noi;h:Tiy ilrcaN
ZION. Twas not premature 10 MY caujec!u.os
There is no doub. that but for oarsss Which
il would not be prudent to rnsntion Just now,
our troops would have Liam by this tim5 a.
FsyetteYile, in Middle Tsrreeses.
General Hac3 has, with er:as rrotnFti!aaS,
and with celebrity Of perception which pro
u,;ses well, made lis dispositions tc sr't the
anrrgeucies as they rise. ard the sUGdan E.1S
10 The right towards Wills Valley, has saEsI,
| tue enemy completely Ly surprise. The Hl2ye-
| meut, az 1 understand it from Ofoers juas in
FROM the front, was lnsds On Tuesday and
Wednesday. The two aimy corps OF Lac h!ld
Chs.thum, encampsd near the littla village "i
| Centre, in Cherokee county. Ala, vera moved
| across tho C5osa on the evening Of the TIL
Gen, Stewart, who lay near Rome, pashad
fo;wurd over she E;owah above tta' point
The columns mot somewhere near WilPs Vail
lev road, and are advancing on Lafayette. The
advance guard il reported 70 Ha'e snsersa that
town without opposition,
TsEa1e,t, will DO Remembered NJ tie paint
frou, which Con- Bragg msTceed on1 to hight
tho battle Of Chicksnauga, and the 7eaiia 81
Cen. Pillows cavalry disaster. /; IS !ft2
little village III Walker county, 'ieorsi,S'
tvsnty.twI miles from Chattanooga. az III:
extremity Of Wills Valley. Zen. l'oCd can
march up this valley ard tap .ae railroad
twelve miles from Bridgeport, near tha rleef'
and push forward over tho rorta tol!"wed ~
Rosecrans upon the Sebastopol Of l'Ast len
nessee. It is rndcrstood 10 bs strongly io'ti'
fed, but may la cgptured bT sudden daHd
over Lockout Mountain. Whether 1t IA the
design Of General Hood tT attempt this. or
whether be still hHs de5isua upon Middle
| Tennessee, ia O matter Of Conjecture Win your
correspondent, as we'll az General Hhcrman'
and will be developed in few days.
| shall express no opinion az to the moves
| mint ne r.pU | III 1nt
pretend 70 DO critic III ths srt Of war. IL
NAV turn out we'll or Ill, ioc augh; know
But it's moral and ro,isica! effect is topic Of
fsir discussion, rad, in their light, the n:27c-
| mont is good one 1t encourages the troops,
rsyiyss the shirt otthe oil s.di5arrangea the
| nIans Of tho snsmv, and distorbs tho Triumph
| an. dreams Ct the pcupl: ''f tito Moth
TIE ENEMY r.L,.isc HA9n.
In this advance, nlr rear ana i!inka are
| under pcrfea: cover. Tie onem7 ii Falling
hack md Concentrating fnr !fs iels9:e ii
Chattanooga.
snEEgkH'n sTRsEcTu
The same correspondent Gays
The strength Of Sherman's army Ia S1rioaeiJ
estimated. have Just hud conversation With
| q CAPTAIN commanding detachment 81 e2ou;s.
and he tolls ma that tho pGPu.sr notian eIsG-
perstes the numbera Of tbs enemy. IhoF' is
one CORDS, eight THOUSAND strong, IN Atlanta.
Thomas has twelve thousand with him at
Bridgeport and Stevenson. There arc I've
thouaand at Gainesville, ~? th?nnard ut
E5oHah, AID about tGonty7!hEee thonsan@ at
Chattanooga. ThSre fg1r,s SUM Mp total 0i
Gfty thousand. This Coca ~. iholuda The onv~
alry. ~ is ahou. five Thousand s!ranR. II those
are any thing like approzimatinR aggregates,
we are nat 80 bad OF as some I'3oF!e fnpPose.
We can dispose Of them with Gcps ASSURANCE.
| The Yankees themselves claim farce OF one
hundred thousand men. Thi0 ia eseccnads.
General BsaureGcrd hse Teac Led srmJ
headquarters, and his cppssTeh1a among tbs
troope, aua told, inap;res the liTcIiees euthu"
/ siasm.
| FRoK MISSISSIPPI.
A correspondent writing irou ccon;ohia,
on the 18th says
This operations cftLs people 8 gaIofs'-, For
rest and Price, is tho ali enGrGEsi1g theme, ard
| If the Yankee papers nre tG 5o beliSrad, this
is the case elsewhere. Price threatening 81.
Louis and Forrest rushing pell neil through
Middle Tennessee, they have good reaHons to
DO exercised.
Waehburne in tho IneanLiiia las hurried
| of nearly all the troops frcia the.l:llG City
and also gone himaeIf. Here Is fl fac opening
for an epterprising Confederate - stap into
that city scus 6ns morning, notwithstanding
the recently constructed Liock-LoHsed. We
have sufficient forces hero Tor tho puTr9re
| Will il be done? shall let Jon know in my
next.
Prisoners who hafe reosntiy bean released
from the Irving Block describe il hs hell
upon EARTH and to add to the nlssrias 81 oloss
confinement and wretohad fare, they are thrown
into closely crowded cells among nsgroes and
common thieves, who loss 10 opportunity el
adding 10 their sufsrings. Each che on Oh
tsring has to submit to being tosscd on bian-
ket or we'll da95ed in 2 tub Ct 39te1, no I,at-
ter what theiP sgs Or condition. end oEs old