The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-17
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Details to the 3lst Ult.
HARD FIGHTING NEAR DALLAS.
THE FEDERALS SUCCESSFUL
Gen. R. W. johnson Wounded
Col. Patrick Killed,


OOfk AOSS FIFTEEN HONDhEDs
Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette.
DALLAS, GEORGIA, May 29(
Via LOUISVILLE, KY, June 5.
The rebels made a desperate charge about
o'clock yesterday afternoon upon McPher-
sons lines and were repulsed with terrible
slaughter, They came up in heavy masses
through the dense underground in front of our
lines and were not discerned until within a
very short distance of the skirmishers. The
skirmishers fell back, and the first line of bat
tie received the shock in gallant style. In
Dodge's front the object appeared to be the
capture of Wilkers battery, and so desperately
did they contend for it that rebel Captain
and Lieutenant scaled the breastworks. The
Captain was captured and the Lieutenant
killed, his body falling inside the work. The
battery kept up CALLING fire of grape and can
lister, which piled up the dead and wounded by
hundreds. Dodge's line did not give an inch.
The 18th Corps stood firm, except Towards
division, which lost some ground and two guns
in the first onset of the enemy, but quickly
rallied and recovered the ground and the guns.
| Wilder's mounted infantry, holding the ex-
IRENE right of McPherson's line, held their
| ground finely.
Failing to carry our works with the first
rush, and satisfied with their first reception
from the first line of battle, the rebels retired
with great precipitation, leaving however, a
strong line of skirmishers to hold the ground
previously occupied by them, and enable them
to carry off their killed and wounded.
Our boys are in fine spirits over their success.
Gems. Mcpherson, Logan, and Dodge were
upon the field in person, and our troops greet
ed them with hearty cheers wherever they
passed.
Our loss cannot exceed 100. while that of
the enemy must have exceeded 1000. In front
of one 0f Dodges divisions, sixty-two dead
rohn xrQr I'm RIG nf M eli
including the Lieutenant Colonel of the 9Th
Kentucky. A large number of wounded were
taken to the hospitals. The rebels remained
in possession of enough ground to carry off
one-half their dead and wounded.
Prisoners reported that the attack would be
resumed during the night, and our troops were
in constant readiness to repel it.
| HOOker's heavy fighting was on Wednesday,
! May 25th, in which he lost some !, 800 men,
and drove back the enemy from very strong
position. The ground in his front is very rough
and broken, though free from the bold hills in
McPhersOn's front. There was continuous fir
ing there yesterday, and from the sound of
musketry last night it is supposed that the reb-
els charged his line. If so, they were doubt.
less repulsed, since his position was one of
great strength for aggressive purposes.
Woods division of the 4th corps. and John
cut up on the afternoon of the 9th. The 23d
corps had previously held the extreme left of
our line, occupying line almost at right angles
with it and leading away to the north. Wood,
| supported by johnson, was started out on the
forenoon of the 27th and marched something
over mile due east and then marched south,
in six lines, through dense underground,
| over hills and ravines, to a line parallel with
the general line. The 23d corps, joining its
left, arrived to fill up the interval. About six
o'clock Wood encountered the enemy in strong
force, and drove them from one position to
another. until high hill was reached, which
1t was found impossible to take. Woods
whole division and Col. Scribners brigade of
| johnson were engaged, and a thousand men
were placed hors du combat. 1t was this move
ment of Woods that gave rise to the report
that the rebel right had been turned Gen.
Howard was slightly wounded in the foot,
which will not disable him. Gen. johnson
was struck by the fragment of a shell and had
two of his ribs broken. Major Hanson, of the
oath Ohio, was killed. Capt. Stevens, A. D. c..
to Gen. Howard, was shot through the lungs,
and supposed to be MORALLY wounded. Fight
| ing opens quite brisk this morning. We are
gaining a little q Ound in the centre but only
| little.
The following is list of killed and wounded
in the Gath Illinois infantry. veteran volunteers
in the action of May %:
Killed-Robert Beattle. Co. A: John West
cOtt do: Robert Cantner, do 4. B. Wagner
| Co. F. "'H
Wounded-Capt. Chas. j. Conger, Co. A,
slightly in the face and neck; Lieut.. Jas. M
Soring, do. slightly in the right side and arm !:
| Milton Cuddaback. do, slightly in the back;
Corporal J. Parks, Co. F. MORALLY, since died:
James G.ifand, MORALLY, since died; G.. Wal
dron, do, severely in the arm: Richard Ham,
InOnd, 40. severely in the shoulder: Thomas
Reckard, do, severely in the leg: John Sheek.
mortaly, since dead; Eugene Avry, Co. 7,
thumb shot off.
Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette.
| I.OUISVHJE XIV June 5-Sop,o do+,;y,
have been received here of the battle of Dallas.
| Georgia, fought between McPhersons cOrps
and the army OF Johnston, and which was un.
officially announced several days ago, as hay
ing resulted in victory to us, with a loss of
| two thousand killed and wounded rebels left
| on the field, and three hundred killed and
| wounded of McPhersons corps. The victory
was fully as complete as that reported nv the
| first announcement the enemy having lost
two thousand five hundred killed and wound.
ed in our hands, and we having sustained no
heavier loss than from three hundred to five
hundred men killed and wounded The loss
falls heaviest on Dodge's command, though
the 18th corps under Logan was engaged.
The battle was the result of the movements
of Sherman to flank Johnston at Altoona
mountains he having very strong position
there, his line running east and west and COW
ering the crossings of the Etowah river Sher-
man, however, crossed the river to the left of
the rebel position, and with Mcpherson in
command, pushed due south to Dallas, the
whole army rapidly following. The result of
this march, which was completed by Friday,
May q, was to place the army in a line on the
Dallas ard Kingston road, running north and
south and at right angles with the line of Gen.
Johnston "1 l2'ofit
Mcpherson, the head of the column, had the
precaution, being little separated from the
corps that followed, to intrench himself His
bump of cautiousness, which is well developed
proved on this occasion good instigator, and
he was well intrenched before Johnston, de-
ceived by the demonstration in his front of a
small force, could change front. Of course
this had to be done. The position on the
mountains had to be abandoned, since Sher-
man would not come to the mountains. and
Johnston made half wheel on his right as a
pivot, and formed line parallel with and COW
p ering dirt road, as well as the railroad from
ESAItoona and Marietta. His line appears to
y Save been q weak one, and Johnston. II now
Il GEMS. began to abandon it as soon as he had
81 sSfupied It, and to retreat to the Cattahoochee
'EMXf: As much to cover his retreat as to in