The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-06-29


Some time since we. gave an account
Of the battle Of the 10th, near Lost
Mountain; and to-day we sdd dcscrip-
tons Of those Of the 18th and 18th,
taken from the Cineinnatsi CONNER
eial:
I'M cEErEK7-svsE y.
At an early hour this morning the or
+ tillery aud trains were all moved from
their old position, on the Marietta and
Burnt Hickory Road, to the works des-
erted last night BY the enemy. The
18th CORPS moved rapidly along, TO
i cross roS.d some t8o mile south of the
! Marietta road, and formed in an open
/ field, on a line of ridges, from which
I was gradual slope to q cultivated val
! ley, few yards further south, through
( which runs the Dallas and Marietta
road The field Is about three or four
hundred yards across, on the south side
of which was the enemy skiFmish line.
The works of the enemy deserted last
evening we're very strong, and had they
/ remained In them, nothing but artille-
/ ~ or a terrible assault could have dis
/ lodged them. They had in an open
| held erected three very formidable
/ breast works, the enemy had prepared
for giving us q warm reception by the
/ falling of small trees, which formed an
! abattis, through which the progress of
an assaulting column or line, would be
very slow--so slow in fact, that before
! our men could charge across the field
and up the hill to the abattis, it would
be nearly annihilated.
To make their position still more de-
/ fensible the rebels had constructed
line of brush parallel with the breast
/ works, and about midway between it
/ and the abattis In it they had driven
stakes into the ground al distance OF
a foot from each other, and piled up
small trees upon the brush pile, the
butts of which were sharpened to a
point, for the purpose of preventing an
advance Of our line. 1t was from this
that they were shelled out last evening
by our batteries rendering 2 retreat
necessary.
WHAT IS DONE vITE THE CITIZENS
In the retreat from one position TO
another, the rebels have always driven
the citizers South Deserters state that
all these citizens and negroes are en-
ployed in the construction Of these
lines Of breastWorks in rear Of the |
rebel positions, 90 that whenever they /
are driven from one linet another is in /
readiness for them. By this means the !
army is not weakened by details for |
engineering purposes. AL, every avail |
q kia man x KENT in front
TIE BALL OPENED.
Between nine and ten O'Clock, Cen.
Bairds division moved forward and /
took a position on the left of the 4th /
Corps Woods division, which wes for
med in tho open valley abeTe referred /
to. Johnsons division, commanded by /
Gen. King, acted az Baird's support. At
ten the whole line advanced simulta
neously, and our batteries opened from
commanding points on the hills. Skin
mishers were thrown out across the
field and boldly advanced into the
woods beyond without meeting with
much opposition, until they had enter
ed the woods some two hundred yards
when a feeble. resistance was made by
the enemy who were in small force
Wood drove them steadily for some
time but at last point was reached
where the rebels were strongly posted
and refused to give back before our
skirmishers Col Sherman, Chief of {
Gen. Howard's staff. Immediately took
one section of Brydes Illinois battery
out on the slzirrnish line and soon sue
ceeded in disloging the rebels, and for
cling them back.
Gen. Wood failed to discover any con :
siderable number in his front, and skir-
mished all day with the very small loss I
of three killed and ten wounded.
Ia Baird's front, also, the resistance
OF the enemy was very slight, yet our
artillery kept pounding away in the
hope Of awakening the enemy's bate
ries and inducing him TO give battle ]
a few guns replied from the enemy's
line, but their missiles exploded SO wide ,
Of the mark that nobody was hurt
Later in the afternoon General New ;
ton sent in Kimballs and Harker's bri- \
gades between Baird and Woods, and h
a few minutes later General Wagner e
brigade Still later in the day Stanley,
who had laid all day in reserve, was Or
dered in on the right of the Wood, so -
that by FIVE clock the whole corps 4
were engaged with their skirmish line
The almost incessant crack of the rife, {
mingled with the loud bass Of artillery (
as it rolled along the line of our !
right to left, would give one unaccus- e
toned to war the impression that the h
contest was severe one. But the re- g.
verse was the case; all this noise and
stir was occasioned by our own guns, P
which thoToughout the entire day kept q
up brisk fire upon the enemy's skIr- r,
m.shers, which they were unable to re- y
iist, and gradually yielded r
About six o'clock the same evening the
enemy had been driven from the open ::
valley aad though half q mile of woods, Ii
which separated it from another large =,
field beyond. Our artillery was moved q
.orward TO the opening on the north OF Re
.he field, across which Woods and =,
Newton's division charged the enemy Ii
md drove them mile into the woods
beyond, where line of breastworks 8
'ousing cheer the boys charged the /
york and carried 1t The artillery was Il
pushed forward, works were thrown up I
md guns placed il position for work /
.o.morrow morning. Baird soon after
pushed the enemy back, and TO night
,ur line is q mile ahead OF its position
n the morning
TaE MEDICAL DEe2RT1EsT
This important branch Of the service :
: thoroughly organized, and the whole "
lospital arrangements 50 systematized