The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1864-08-12
THE WAR IN GEORGIA!
Battle at Atlanta on the 28th ultimo.
Two Miles from Atlanta, july %.

About half past ten in the forenoon,
yesterday, Lieut. Worley, signal officer
Of the 18th corps, reported to Gen. Logan
that a heavy column of infantry conlt be
seen issuing out of Atlanta, going south
ward, with the evident intention of at.
tempting to turn our right flank. Hither-
10 the skirmi,hers had encountered moth
inc but cavalry. but upon this announce,
men: they halted at once and began TO
throw up works. They had time only to
complete rude defenses of rails and poles.
without throwing shoveIfull of earth,
when the rebels drove in tie skirmisbers,
aud rushed upon them with their usual
impetuosi,y. This was about noon. They
evidently thought that they had made a
circuit sufficiently wide to bring them up
on our flank; but tbey were mistaken,
and came up front to front with the works.
The woods were so thick hat arm persua
ded they could not see the extent of our
works and besides that, prisoners stated
that their leaders had represented to them
that we were retreating. and needed only
to be attacked with spirit to be pu, to Ut
ter rout The heaviest shock Of the as
sauIt fell upon the I'd and 4,h divisions,
and for a time it was not absolutely GER
tain that they would he able to maintain
themselves. A timely reinforcement Of a
single regiment, judiciously distributed,
quickly determined the question, and the
rebels were driven back with heavy loss
But they were not to be thus easily and
expeditiously discomfi'ed From IL o.
clock till nearly night the firing was in
cessant, swelling out. as the rebels cha'g-
ed. into fierce. steady roar. and again dy.
ing away as they receded, to flful rat
Ting, and. during the afternoon, the reb-
els made seven distinct charges, and after
nightfal two more, in the vain attempt to
recover the hundreds Of dead and dying
who had fallen near our lines.
All this, however, was worse than USE
less, though they kept gradually moving
to our right, 80 that each assault threat
ened more and more to swing around and
flank us. Still our reserve regiments
were enough, and only enough, to pre-
vent any disaster from this source. There
was not man to spare, and few regi>
ments were detached from the 17th corps,
finally, and dispatched to the right, which
saved this wing.
I: was a vain attemps-a Iuinous, ut
ter faiure-as all their other assaults have
been here before Atlanta. and the field vas
left in our possession. They were able to
carry off part Of their wounded. but left
their dead in our front. and their pickles
withdrew half mile, and in the morning
of the next dav they were qniet.
The rebels rushed ri ght upon our work,
so manv of them as lived to get there,
and sometimes were in the very act OF
vaulling over when killed. 4 rebel color
bearer ran up with his colors, and, with
the spear head which was affixed to the
top of The flagstaff, ran through member
Of the Goth Illinois, and killed him. In
stan,ly another member Of the same regi-
men, shot the daring rebel through the
head, and, leaping over the works, cap
tured the coors in safety.
The oh division of the corps brought
off from the contest FIVE rebel stand of COL
ors. The whole corps captured at least
1000 sfand Of small arms.
The losses on this occasion were greatly
unequal. and the disparity WAS greatly ow
ing to the fact that our forces were pro-
tected. while the rebels were exposed to
the full sweep Of our missiles In the ISL
corps the losses in killed, wounded and
missing. foot up to 537; in the Eth corps
which was but very slightly engaged, the
number lost WAS not above twenty. Few
prisoners were taken by the rebels.
From the estimates of various officers
combined, am inclined to put the loss in
killed alone at about one thousand. The
proportion was smaller than usual, from
the fact that they fought SO much of the
time at close range. The number of their
prisoners brought in during the day did
not exceed one hundred. Il appears to
have been Hoods old corps alone that
made the attack, as | saw prisoners from
no other.
Next morning Lieutenant Of the 10Th
South Carolina can in as deserter, and
stated ,ha, the rebels had four Generals
wounded--BrowD. Stevenson, LorIng and
Gibson-t~o of them morally. Ofcourse
this must be accepted with caution.
The centre and left confined their oper-
ations during the Gay entirely to making
demonstration to attract attention from
the attempt on the right wing. The reb-
els doubtless. understood the matter, con
ident as they were that We would not
have the audacity to assault their tremen
dous breastworks and forts directly IN
front, and replied to it with shells and
round-shot only. The troops did not
come into close quarters on this part Of
the line; consequently the losses were
nothing more than the trivial wear and
tear OF the skirmish line, such as every
day brings with il.
Disaster to the Federals.
Nashville. Aug. 3.
Gen. StonemaD, a short time since,
started on raid against the Macon Rail-
road, with Gen Ed. McCook's division OF
cavalry. composed Of LONGS and Dals-