The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-08-11

out all right. The rebs came as close as chre
about having them. We just got our line o
works up and ready for them, but they thought
it best to let the job The 10th Wisconsin has
had hard fight. The rebs tried 10 take their
but they had to give it up. The boys Tough
like Tigers. s. Spence, Henry Yule and Geo.
Juneson, were all safe the last / heard from them
yesterday.
We are bound to have Atlanta We came
here to take it and we qcW do II. 1t vii! cost
life and blood on both SUES, but we are conf, ,
dent of success with such leader a sherman
ana & glorious cause to fight for
Yesterday was hand>to-hand fight In a
greatmany cases they killed each other with
clubs and spades This know to be fact
We have wounded reb here who had his head
spliiin three places with a spade, which they
were using to make the Notifications with; tina
l saw. rhe cuts | think will kill him
We are now between Decatur and Atlanta,
about three miles from the city and they are
lighting in front tUSday. The deep throated gun
tells me that, this moment blood is being spilled
You may hear, before this reaches you, that At.
| lanta is ours 1t is reported here that the rebel
Gen. Hardee is wounded and in our hands
| hope it Is so, but think little of our success
| when see SO much misery as have seen Tor
| two days past. The Rebs are sick of their lob
! They keep coming over every day, yesterday 4
came into US, and gave themselves up. They
say they Will tight no more. We eamped III
| Roosevelt two days That is the place where the
| factories were burned they were The incest build
| ings ever saw, tull of machinery. Everything
| is burned; nothing remrlns standing but part Of
the walls, 1t is hard blow On this part of Geor-
gla for the people here,most all worked in them.
1t took over fifteen hundred hands to work them
mostly females, now starvation stares them in
| the face. Government has sent great many OF
| them north te find work till the war closes.
have got some of the money that they used in
the factory, and some Of the Decater tin money
l Will send you some it in the letter | feel
about used up for lay in the road la st night Il
was after dark when came here ell tired out
and we dumped down in the road and there we
lay, till day light, then we rolled out and came
here We may be ordered out in five minutes
L saw more suffering than | ever saw before
or ever want to see again ! saw over 800 wo.
men and children, and the dead and dying
will not speak of it tell you it is awful. You
can form some idea of the extent of it. when
tell you there was 800 unburied in front of oul
Regt. our men were armed with six~shooterS the
Rebs charged the works five times and were
repulsed every time with great slaughter ouI
men claim that the dead Rebs number 6 500
some say twice that number We have lost
great many men but nothing to compare will
| them. We lost some prisoners and took large
number. l saw quite a number of the 10th wis
in the Hospital. Co. lost killed and quite
number wounded Of them were killed by one
shell. Some were wounded badly there wer
but few slight wounds One Of the boys thai
l had to cook for me at Camp Randall was kill
ed while making charge Gen. Smith C ON
! mans our Div. and Gen. John Logan thu
Depart. in place of our late lamented Gen. Nc
Pherson. Our boys fought like brave men long
and we'll. We piled the ground with Rebel slain
we conquered. but Mcpherson tell, bleedidg Il
every vein. stopped at house the other daygh
children looked like starved Kittens. They ha
; lost everything they had. The Old Gent toll
! me the shoes ne had cost fifty dollars, an
they charged him 100 dollars for 2lbs of Coffee
They had nothing left to live on but ltd
meal, and oue Old cow. Meal and milk an
= very little of that. After that was gone the We
I man told me she did not know what they shout
\ do. Another woman told me she had n0thin
: for 8 days, only what our Soldiers gave her O
their ratons' This is no idle tale it is the trut
that write. There is no use making thing
worse than they are. l would not if l were 8
: disposed. We are not in Atlanta yet hut W
s are going there. If our lives are spared. Their
a is prospect of eight to-day it may come
the night but we prepared for 1t What d
the folks up there think of what Billy Sherman
S and his boys doidg down here in Georgia
# We are making the Butternuts Get right
q and get, right smart"
! We'll | hope shall see you all by and by
when this cruel war is over
From Your Soldier Brother