Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-10-12
LATE AND IMPORTANT NEWS!
LEES SUPPLIES ALL DESTROYED !!
Sheridan Lays Waste the Shenandoah
Ialley!!!
SHERMAN WHIPS HOOD IN GEORGIA

WAN DlrAErIESr WMm>GIoA, Oct, lu
10 Gucrd DLr}-Rcporl- hive been received
by mi. Department from Cons Butler sherman
Thomas, Sheridan aud Bmbridgc showing the lh-
yombg condition Of military affairs in their re,pco-
tive field. of operation The purpose Of General
Grants visit to Washington having been accom-
plishod he returned to his headquarters ou saturday
bat there hps been mo- lclcguphic communication
since hi- arrival there
ALTOONA, Gho oct % o p. IA.
10 Gceral H,iicci i reached Kcuc.aw Noun
tain October Glh, iu,l in time lo witness. at % dis
lance the attack on Altoona / had anticipated
the attack and had ordered from Rome Gen. Cor.c
with reinforcement The attack was met aud re-
pulsed, the enemy losing some 200 killed and more
than 900 wounded and prisoners, Our los, was
about 700 in the aggregate. The enemy captured
the small garrisons at Big Shunty and Ackwonh
and burned about seven miles of our Railroad but
we have Altoona and Atlanta md IN abundance of
prov rivu-.
Hood hu- moved rapidly back to Dallas, and
am watching him in case he tries to reach Kingston
or Rome Atlanta is perfectly safe TO Us, and this
army !. better of than in camp
TSignodl W. r. SHERMAN, Mai, Gen
Sheridan telcgruphs Grant from Woodstock Va
that his command Is back TO that pacc-that he
made the whole country from the Blue Ridge TO the
North Mountain untenoblc fora rebel aYmy--that
he Ina, destroyed over two thousand barns filled
with wheat hay and farming implements, and over
seventy mill, filed with flour and Wheat--las
driven in front of the army four thousand head of
stock and killed and issued to the troops thirty
thousand sheep
Ny Engineer Lieut., John Il. Meig., WAS muir
dcred near Dayton and for this otrocious act all the
houses within IN area Of five miles were burned
Gen Bmbrdgc gives details Of hs operation. 10
stanton from Cutlettsburg, Ky, Sth. Says he met
the enemy in quite superior nulabcrs strongly en-
trcnchcd on Blue River, under command Of Echol.,
Williams and Vaughn, and it is said Brockinridgc
and attacked them and drove them from their works
on our left and centre whipping them at every
point and forcing him back to his works butn the
evening our ammunition gave out when We with
drew in excellent order
From prisoners We learn the enemy force was
between six and eight thousand, and that Brecldn-
ridge was present with four thousand from Lynch
burg.
My force engaged amounted to two thousand, our
loss in all about three hundred and ffy--thc enc
mys larger
On the morning of the 3D., ! received an order
from Gen. Sherman to return
Butler from Headquarters Department Virginia,
October Sth, tecgraphs Grant that our success yes
terday was a decided one, although rebel papers
claim victory. They admit General Gregg and
Bratton were wounded.
Stanton telegraphs no recent intelligence from
Candy, but by his last report Steele was moving in
force upon the rear of Price toward; Missouri.
NEW York October 10.
Cotton, 10; Gold 1888