The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-11-12

poets and wires at three different points be.
tween Adairsville and Re9aca, which We
had to repair ~ we went along.
| Our reinforcement consisted Of the lOth
Iowa, 25th Indiana, . part Of the 10th I'LL
nOis, and part Of smother regiment nol
now recollected. Near Calhoun We were
* so%s 1syc,y s1s
from 5000 to %. 900! I'VE arrived Of Resaca
just at dusk 6f the evening, and - we
neared the place the locomotive did some
Of the most terrific screaming that ever
come through . steam whistle. NOV,
boys said Col. McCook lwho was N com;
mand), give them some hearty cheering
simultaneously from the garrison and the
long line or cars ascended such shouts q
made the welkin ring. You might have
supposed, from the cheers, that there were
| ten thousand fresh troops pouring into Re
SAGA, instead Of half as many hundred;
1.-THE attack had commenced the day BE-
fore, and there had been desperate fighting
ever since. Hood had the principal part 81
his army there and commanded. Deeds q
wonderful prowess and feats Of unparal-
leled strategy had been performed. One DILL
had been charged by an overwhelming
force of the enemy-taken-again charged
| by our men, and retaken, during which
terrific conflict Of arms ct least two rebels
were killed, and = third supposed to be
MORALLY wounded. I am happy to say We
lost nothing. glgsfI e4 N
AZ soon Is we arrived the 10th was hur-
ried up to the breastworks on the summit
Of the hill aforesaid, which was in immi-
nent danger Of another assault. Indeed,
it was supposed the rebel line was already
advancing. Col. Henderson drew his
men up ID line behind the breastwork,
where with fixed bayonets and set teeth
they stood growing q defiance At all rebel
dom and John Bull thrown in. mot q
gun was heard, nor bugle note'-no
tramp Of an advancing columbia gleam-
ing OF gun-barrels-no Tutoring Of but
ternut rags on the night breeze. What had
suddenly become of that mighty host?
Like the lsavssof the forest when summer is
That host at sunset with their banners were
Like tns leaves Of the forest when Autumn has
That host ere the starlight had vAAooszD and
gone" M y8sxssse VIVA
Two companies were deployed ~ skir-
mishers, who advanced some two or three
hundred yards, but not a butternut was
visible. Not gun was fired nor q camp
fire lighted al that night along the rebel
line. The rebels had decamped during the
night. es er
Hood had undoubtedly large force in the
neighbOrhOod Of Reeaca, though perhaps
never more than five hundred men en-
gagged in the attack on tho pace. His OBJ
ject was doubtless to keep the troops 1t the
fort engaged while his main fOrce should
tear up the railroad and advance toward
Dalton and Tunnel Hill. This purpose he
accomplished before our arrival, and sup
posing ours 10 be the advance ofSherman's
main army, he Immediately sought safer
quarters: That I am not wrong In this sup
position IL, think, evident from the work
accomplished along the road. The rebel
force was extended along the road from
Reeaca to Dalton, . distance of about six.
teen miles. They captured . blOck-housel
held by two companies OF the 10th Missouri,
after some few hours fighting, during which
the block house was demolished by artil-
lerys They were .non-veteraus, and their
tune expired the next day, I was told
They captured Tho l7th Iowa II Tiltou,
alter av9re dGhting4 The garrison at DIAL
Tn, G1n4iS6h3 OF one aCCl0red regiment
'4nd few whites. Through the cowardice or
treaChery OF the commanding officer las is
generally believed, Col. johnson, disgrace
fully surrendered without firing gun. I
have since seen an orderly who escapeds
and be says that the negroes were all eager
to fight, and could have defended the Fort
successfully against greater number OF
rebels than appeared before il, but they
were ordered not to nre : gun. Tp0 on
GERS 1ere puroted, and the men taken out
aud set to work tearing up the railroad. -
What has subsequently, been done with
their prisoners We cannot learn.
When the rebels charged our works at
Resaca, AcCtelt0n was their battle-shout.
But this 10 not strsnge. It ia well known
that for many months past all rebeldom
has earnestly desired the nomination of
George B. Mcclellan. The election of Nc
Clellan is the one thing upon which they
now hang all the hope of Southern Con-
federacy. It is the last star that flickers
on their dark Ornament of gathering
night, and about the ides of November that
will prove to be the Apocalyptic Worm
wood. set 'rF4
! The road between Resaca and Dalton
Willie In running order ia q few days, and
trains again running through, unless the
rebs should succeed ia striking 1t at some
other point. a 80
Hood has doubtless faile1 in his main
purpose. IL seems probable that he In.
tended to accomplish these objects by his
movement, viz: 1st. To destroy the bridge
across the Tennessee river at Bridgeport.-1
ID. TO tear up as much Of the railroad as
possible, and thus force Sherman to fall
back from Atlantis. Sd. To sieze, at ALA
toona and other points, sufficient rations to
supply his almost destitute army.
He was badly whipped ut Allatoona, and
of course utterly failed there. He found q
heavy force under Thomas already ahead
OF him in the direction Of Bridgeport. and
SO he abandoned that project. He then
turned eastward, striking the road at Re-
SAGA and Dalton, with the results already
given. At Dalton be found only six days
rations for one regiment, which would
never have repaid the cost even Of ammu-
milton, II there had been any resistance
made. w
Sherm an has not given up Atlanta, nor
any Of the line. The Goth corps holds At
lanta behind impregna bic bulwarks.
Shermai1's army passed through Resaca
the next morning after Hood had de-.
camped, and has been pressing him hard
ever since. Deserters and prisoners say
that Hoods army is subeisting on chest. 1
nuts and the little they can forage from the
country over which they pass. When he
left Jonesborough tits said be took with
him his whole supply of ratiops--iifteen
days. Had they succeeded, as they ex.
pected, It Aliatoona, it would have given