Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-07-20
in finally escaping, probably induced the
rebels to hazard n more parallel this
! side Of The IiNer.

eIht q il4G liNtE-
HI RIGHT WING
Is so far removed from this point that
l am little informed as to its operations
during the day. It rests upon the river
in a line running northeast and south
west, and Is mainly engaged. as the 9TH
ers, IN deliberately clnnonading the reb-
el works. The 18th Corps is confronted
by two forts, regularly constructed, and
mounting four guns each, which il will
task our gunneTs somewhat to silence.
Q z. M.-Inteliigeuce just received
officially, make il certain that the enc
my have reiterated across the river, and
that there II nOw no longer an armed
rebel this side az the Chattahoochie 1t
Is certain that they maintained a defiant
picket at least two and a half miles out
ircm the river UP 10 10 A. II, which, of.
course, must have been q mere shell 10
cover their retreat. The cInnOnading
this afternoon was mostly on The river.
IA the attempt 10 prevent the enemy
from throwing up works on the opposite
side. Il can scarcely be hoped that this
csn be Effected after nightfall covers
their operations. The construction. train
is already nearly &c the river, and engiu-
GERS are busily employed rebuilding the
bridge over Woody Branch, a small creek
a few miles this side of the river bridge.
The thunder OF our cannon must 20 day
# not many days before, have resounded
through the streets of Atlanta, since it is
pnly seven miles from the CITY, and is a
4 city set on a hill. What emotions is
awakened in the minds of its forty-thou-
and lnhabitants-permanent and refu-
they reflected that it was the
sound of canno which have, in this cam
paign, never yet zone back or been put
20 silence, but have advanced steadily Two
miles and q quarter per day-and only
even miles TO AtlanIa-may, perhaps, be
imagined.
TAsTNEss OF q REsEL ~DEFENsEs.
Too much stress cannot easily be laid
m the above subject, in order 10 bring
he reader to . proper appreciation of the
achievements OF this army. AS we ap-
proach Atlanta they steadily grow upon
us-lIne after line is uncovered by our
Onward march, each more elaborate and
rresisliGie-irresistibie by all save Sher.
mans army-Ihan the last. Imagine all
the country between the Allatoona noun
tains and the ~Chattahoochie river plough
cd into huge ridges, on an average, once
IN every five miles-continuous cribs built
Of rails and poles or oftener of huge logs,
twelve miles long. filed with dirt wrench
Ell out from the clenched roots of q
Georgia forest, four feet high and six feet
wide. running through the thickets
woods and cleared fields alike, alwaystwo
oftener three, and sometimes even FIVE
lines deep. and ali finished perfectly and
polished. The trenches cut down square
and true and the psrapets shaped as if
with the square and plummet-and you
have a faint conception of the mszes of
rebel Notifications, through which this
army has fought and hanked its way thus
far into the Confederacy. Ny tent stands
TO night within five yards of the huge
wrinkle of earth erected by desperate
rebels Immediately after their ABANDON
ment OF Kenesaw-the second from the
river-and in coming to 1t | rode for
hours between their first and second main
lines, running along on top of a ridge
Just over against that on which were our
own, and truly it seemed more the work
of Titans or internal gods, than of any
mere men. The prevailing terror which
our artillery has inspired the rebel i'm
agination, was well illustrated by the nu-
merous pits dug just inside the breast
works and rooted over with logs and
earth to shed the fierce iron rain which
poured upon them both when they slept
(?) and when they walked. The neglect
ed cnrnIields were ploughed by our shells
as they had not been ploughed for weeks,
and l nave seen, at least in one case, an
oak tree fifteen inches in diameter and
quite sound, broken off twenty feet from
the round and the toplying on the ground
from the effects of a single she'll four
in diameter passing through i'll
Who shall dispute the discretion of bur-
in the ground when such missiles
are flying carelessly about?
You should hear the sympathiZing re-
marks made by our boys as they pass
these works, which they got by q flank"
without any loss in commiseration of the
Johannes" who worked so hard 10 make
them, and never had tho opportunity to
a musket shot from behind them
Il is n of the humorsome phases of this
grim business of making war; and the
effects of marching the men
by such works, which were won by STRAIT
rGy and common sense, instead of hard
lighting 60 far TO cheer the spirits of those
who are jaded form the long campaign. {
PRISONERS
Are reported to have peer taken within
past few days TO the number of eight
hundred. This uumber is we'll authen- s
as three hundred of them were
in Marietta at one time, and i'm
nediately after five hundred more on {
heir way thither. Is
CATTLE Z
To the number of two hundred were also I
day before yesterday. by the /
9th Corps. ALI other goods and chattels
he rebels have succeeded we'll in run 5
hing off before US. do not recall any /
stance where contrabands have been
aiken. or have escaped to US They are I
hurried out of the country. and kept in !
ne rear, digging the last ditch" of h
Which the rebels ALWAYS conclude to dig e
one mara fer hainr AnnEaA nnt al