The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-07-09

Very prematufely did 1.-THE gentleman
Just from the front Of our Armyin Georgia.
announce to the Agent OF the Associated
Press in Louisville, that the rebels had ire
tired across the Chattahoochee." Were
that gentleman here this morning he
would dislike very much to undertake q
journey TO the northern bank Of that IA
NOUS stream.
In truth the gentleman must have been
decidedly given TO fiction. Either he was
not from the front, 1t all, and consequently
knew nothing about the facts, or he mis-
represented what he did know. On Satur-
day, The lith day q June, this army took
around Kenesaw it has ever since re-
manned, and around Kenesaw it lies this
morning, without the slightest prospect Of
reaching the Chattahoochee, except by
passing through and over Joe Johnston
army. believe It could do that; but after
the thing was ended, there would no occa-
sion to halt upon the northern or north.
the rebels would in all probability be in no
condition to resist our passage to the other
side.
Since the battle of the 18th inst, in which
Hooker's men we're 20 severely engaged,
we have had no fighting, save skirmishing
on the most extended scale. But our
diminishing il Of kind fearfully destruc-
from day to day, a. this ID being continued,
wastes the energies Of an army a. much a.
Z terrible battle.
The enemy seems to have marked out
this whole country from the Allatoona
Mountains to the Chattah0ochee with limo
after line Of rifle pits and intrenchments
and Qualifications. No sooner do We take
possession Of one formidable line Of works,
than another conffonts M and each seems
TO be stronger than the preceding.
All day on the 10th We skirmished inces-
sanity with the rebels. establishing no ad-
vance anywhere. On the 18th We advanc-
ed everywhere, chasing the enemy from
long lines Of secondary works, and forc-
ing him back on what We fondly hoped
Chattahoochee.
Perhaps ] should say We advanced eve
rywhere except upon the center Of our
line. That portion Of It composed Of parts
Of the 18th (Palmer's) and 18th (Dodge's)
corps, were in . manner stationery, rep
resenting the hub Of wheel, Of which the
two wings were spokes. OF course, the
from the hub, the further and more rapid
~ they were obliged To move.
On the 18th, or right (Hooker and Scho-
1eld) gradually forced their way until
they had established themselves in such .
position a. seri0usly to threaten the enc
my's leN, while Howard and Palmer had
come mp 20 close to the intrenchments that
the rebels could not throw out skirmish-
ers q ~, but fred at our pickets from be-
the incessant rattle of lmusketry and the
scarcely intermitted roar OF artillery, con-
tinued. We Lost heavily; for il many
places we were constructing OppOsing
works. under the fiercest fire especially
nom the enemt's sharpshooters; but from
the extreme lett TO the extreme right w0
had driven In the rebel skirmishers, had
had captured several hundred prisoners.
TO describe the operations Of particular
regiments, the acts Of individual bravery,
and the sulierings and hardahips Of the ar
my during those days would require =
volume.
When morning dawnred, the enemy had
|goue; and a. rode along his works an
hour or Two after daylight, could not
avoid the reflection that We had ct last
learned him, spite Of his dullness and lazi-
ines, to construct lines Of intrenchments
good a. our own. had much admired
the strength and beauty or his Qualifications
at Resaca, but here were decidedly the
best field works had ever seen. n
Deserters and stragglefs differed in their
accounts as to the WHEREABOUTS Of the ene-
nay: Some said land this was what we
wAeaA0SA " O0IATv0J tu6I t00T0 WOulO % no
further stand on this side Of the river. A
peculiarly Intelligent prisoner told me land
81 once believed It was too true) that the
rebels had fallen back, partly because We
were threatening their tanks uncomfort-
ably, partly for tho purpose Of strengthen
sng and .shOrtcssisg their lines, and that q
mile and a half further on We should find
them again.
A company sent out from each brigade
soon came in contact with them. and our