Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-11-10
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r.s~ a"H 'aT''2p. Rome, (GA.) OCTOBER so, 1864.
Ia bs quiet succeed ng the tug of marching
&. hing there o, been money after the elusive Hood
w7o is uuw attempting, in another quarter the rather
oculsr performance of As king army too large to light
propose to give brief resume Of the movements Of Sher
nan 10 pursuit. up this mei aud possibly to indicate
that Sherman n not ouy Of the situation but pre-
parng TO give the rebel commander robust Roland for
bis enfeetIed Oliver The events in this direction that
W anspre within the next six weeks ought to be quite
unique Before however pursuing Our portentous hint
furher will give running account Of the movements OF
Shernans army rom Atlanta after Hood, and back again
for your readers informed that by the time IN reaches
their eye several of his corps will be once more 10 re
Gate City. have not ssea published tns route OF Sher.
man Ia bis pursuit Of hood indeed previous TO this
moment it altogether developed that it was al 90
epd But 10 dyupt can exist that il now We have
evidence in the movements IF troops just inaugarated
that Stermsns large army not 10 keep up serl chase
after hoods comparatively small one What these move
ents shal when their turn for rea'on up
tAsKuTcH OF sHERMAN's PURSUIT OF HOOD.
r,;r tho last week in September it became known,
through Gen. Garrsd whose cavalry was scouting IN Inc
;Srsbl force from Loveoys the Macon road through
Palmetto on the Atlanta and Montgomery road, to the
nttah
near CampbelltowD, aud crossing the river. The pre-
sumption that it move TO facilitate and cover
the return of the cavalry under Wheeler and Forrest
were at that operating in the vicinity OF Athens
Alshams But the weight of the enemy soon indicated
somethi Of greater oment, and was suspected that
bol aud formidable attack was TO be made on our cos
On Tuesday September 27th three divisions Of the army
were sent to beng understood that they were
destined for Rome Later the iofce moving up tne rai
On saturday afternoon, October l. the first and fourth
Divisions of the Seventeenth Army Corps-Gen Fullers
and Gen Belknaps under command OF Gen Rausom-
startrd on reconnoiss Fsrburn Station The
enemy was found and beyond Fairburn 10 force Our
men retired and reached camp early on Monday morning
The result was before the troops returned to camp
III, Army of the Tennessee had orders to store all
plus baggage Atlanta and DO ready to march on Tues
day morning.
son OF The road Of Big Shanty Station, and de-
srosirg il Those who came from Marietta reported
that clouds of smoke could DO seen from Mount kenesaw
for miles on the iha. the rebels had their two best
corps commanded by Beauregard and that We would be
con ed give up Atlanta the prize Of our summers
campaign But the army was remarkably Tree from ex'
and we're daily Ipecung the long looked for paymaster
bur the mrn we're I'd Mt that Gen. Sherman equal
any strategy of the enemy and that We could citch
rh- north Of the river they would Lave bad time
getting back.
slne be outskirts Of Atlanta, and the heavy works
bch the rebels had construct for The defence Of the
ci v and our men, busy ants cnstrucDg shorter
Hue # esrthwoIks vii HIN them. We tilt that Atlanta
w,ud b. sale the keeping OF te Twentieth Corps
The weDt-tbird Corps aud The Fourth aud Fourteenth
Corp. of the Amy Of the Cum erand had preceded the
Amy ot tie Tennessee Nor we iesr because Thomas
&C 10, l. gar, aud Blair away, for Geus Coz,
slcy, Desterbsut h an Don tried es5ers We
railroad br dge the Chattab ochle river
bad bee" swept out oy tue food but we had iorded
Cnce, End weIe ready % do again. The rain poured
UPON the orses and mules groaned under their
b. eE for thry We're without and oats, aud mum
b, IRA OF them dec from overwork but toiled along
Ichlu a MIS-
th woysde 90, alter ueaIyss hard march as we made
eu rDs The uaGer campaign we found euI,eve. resting
bu ~niilI o. alO he roads lssong out OF Marietta
uu = 10 aid 9Th e Ocober army came up to
e., Mountain ait, ding the rebels IN lorce orders
-. sslro s'nek tteu s'ry Cd zoe oth bu'' r.
~ ia lar, ott, uey I'D hastily Withdrawn duriGg the
) T,.,orprart,s he a,t-ino"n If the bih shermsn
- Ke-ssa~ to Big shsnty, q distanco OF seven
o re light nilsa
o. ava stu leIay the tack destroyed but On tie
en- mon =, houo,J October lor, the wtoe army was
l., ,frb, m tiu tur uadr running and parallel
- b, ooo Trough ailat uua and uvtr he Aiato"na
b, vr n, Et,wa river. % the morul0g OF the 18th
. sbr,ua pass 'hfouso hDsston, ana o"mPea
~ M ,rIep mil BONE On the text day October
an The Oh pressing hastily toward Re-
Ca poruvns OF The sruy uck the railroad near Ada
, m were transported 10 Resaco seventeen miles
i BY cnrp Tor anon pufPose se'en vi eRut Trains
On n. I5l he a,lD now ue,sed around Ressca, was
., ,h-o = eel he ssveItcen,b Fifteenth, aud Twenty
land orps moving -cuy through 6uake Gre Gap,
ed by the Fourteenth Corps alter it had made de-
iour Ia u north The Fourth Corps crossed the Chatla
,n,on Ridge lear Dalton. Al Suske Creek Gap drew
BIZ 90 for The fret aud only tune during the pursuit,
pum1erog about thirty couhned TO The Twenty
buh Indiana and parts OF the slxyhird Ohio and Sixty
fourth Illinois.
sunte Creek Gap 10 very narrow, and the enemy have
IKE beavers obsIruct it. They ed Thousands
TOR that purpoe, and though our engineer corps
na. assted 10 The distractions by heavy details,
we probably lost day by The delay. Previous to this time
we we're close upon Hood that was not impossible to
have badgered nsht out OF him.
I'm hoDday October leh, the army with the pton
of tie Iwentyhird Corps, which detour through
III. ArnuIchy Valley, moved through Ships Gap, ADD,
heading SOUTH passed straight through summeryie
village about twenty Ave miles west of Calhoun on the
Aunta railroad The supply trains took road leading
down Tsyor's Ridge,
On tic light OF the Goth the whole army united at
Itgttvule (AIsbams,) village about twenty-five miles
Uess a Rome and about ten miles north OF the
CoOsa Up this time we bad followed Hood with
all tie speed possible, but he having sufficient margin
crossed Coosa at Blue Mountain and fortified the
southern bank On the 27tn army arched south from
Eaeesvlio about five miles, and depoying into line
oamped some two three miles from the Coosa river.
From Tie 2lst 10 the 2eh army remained in tnis po
Euop-tbe enemy having disappeared 10 the time
from the south bank Of the Coosa river and after making
detur To the west have turned north again aiming ey-
deully at Decatur that vicinity.
AZ become evident that sherman does intend to
follow hood any further with bis army and 90 he
equally ud,yo idle events Of startling ma
ture may be looked for from this department.
Inc marching the lst Of october has been very
heavy, but the 10 better condition than if they
bad remained 81 Ahapta, prey to camp ennu The