The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1864-09-05
"A Full Confirmation.
HOOD RETREATS BY NIGHT.
Oar Forces In Clsso Pursuit.
1000 PRISONERS CAPTURED.
~ PIECES OF ARTILLERY.
Hood Blows up his Magazine at
Atlanta, and Destroys 81 Car
Loads Of Ammunition, sc.
REJOICING THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
FROM SHERIDAN'S ARMY.
Early Retreating up the Valley.
His Cavalry Badly Defeated.
The 100000 Call.
The Naval Enlistment Arranged.
THIS CITY ALLOWED ls,s4s.
BROOALYN GETS 6,OAo.
Both Cities ont Of the Draft.
Co., &C., &a
GENERAL SHERMAN.

Confrinaiion Of the Fall Of Atlaatu. Etc.
war Dep rtmsn' Washington Sept. 3, so'eIoet
k-kaJor. .GensysI Diz NO in,eli scnce from
Atlanta later than my telegram 0, last night has
teen received The tsesrsphlc lines between
lsh vile and Chattanooga were broken last night
ty Wheeler, snd we have nothing south u Nash.
vile to-day. This accounts for the absence Of lsor
Information from Atlanta No doubt Is entertained
st the correctness o the reports received last night
which csme from two Independent sources beside
Me oasc.Al dispIteh .. Gen slocum. uaoscial re-
vOrts, this event :. from Nashy state that thc
damage by Wheeler to the railroad will be speedily
-repared. and that Wheeler had retrested. Cen.
Rousseau was IN pursuit, and that in An engage
nent between Rousscau's and Wheeler's forces
the rstel Gen. Kelly mortspy wounded, and
v In our hands.
EDWIN N. STANTON, Secretary Of War.
sroosD DspATon.
Wan Dr.KrxKsr, wAsuIssros,,
Sept g. lsC4.
Major General DE:
The following telegram from General Grant has
Just been received;
"Ci.v Point, Sept. s.--Hon r. NJ Stanton
have Richmond paper of to-day. It contains .
runor Of battle at Atlanta, but says that the War
Department having Official information Il de-
e.nes to form an opinion from the rumors. Ihsve
no doubt, however, but Sherman has gained =
great success there. Before the dispatch of last
night WAS received announcing the occuT alton Of
Atlanta by our troops the fact was known 70 our
pickets. The rebels hal ooed over to our shat
Sherman had whipped Hood that the latter had
lost 10000 men, ana that our troops were in A.
.l,n,s. All quiet here. ~. S. GRANT, Maj Cen"
Our Southwestern Telegraph Lue continues
down. aud this with . heavy storm that com
uenced In the afternoon and is still prevailing be-
yond Louisville, may damage the lines A. 10
hinder the arrival Of details from Atlanta for day
Gtwo. EDWIN NJ. STANTON, Secretary Of War.
VERY --LATEST
OEiciaI From General Shers,an.
War Department, Sept. i is6i.-Io Ma. Gen
usl Dix, New York;
General sherrnan's oalts report Of the csp,ur,
o. Atlanta has Just been received by the Depart
nent. 1t Is dated % miles south OF Atlanta 81,
o'clock yesterday morning, but was detained b!
the breaking OF the telegraph lines mentioned IL
my dispatch to you. Sherman sayi:
"As already reported. the army withdrew IRON
about Atlanta, and on the Both had made breal
ou the West Point road, and reached good pot
ton from which to strike tho Macon road--,h
right tHowsrd,, near Jonesborough; the e,
iScofeld), near Rough and Ready, and the centr
tThomss., at Coueh's.
Howard found the enemy in force At Jones
boro and entrenched his troops in tho salient
tackled him at 3 =. NJ, but WAS easily repused
leaving his dead and wounded.
"F Fndins strong opposion on the road, %
vsnced the Ion and centre rapidly TO the RAILROAD
made good loigment, and broke 1t all the wa
from Rough and Ready down to Howsrd's lef
near Jonesboro, and by the same movement II
terposed my whole army between Atlanta and II
part Of the enemy sntrenched In and around Joue
boro.
ave made . general attack on the enemy
JonesLoro, the first Of September, the Fourteeni
Corps, Gen. JET. G. Davis, carrying the worl
handsomely taking tsn guns and about thouaar
prisoners.
"In the night the enemy refreshed South, an
We have followed him 70 another Of his hsstil
constructed lines near Lovejoy's Station. HooS
u Atlanta, finding me on his road, the only o,
shs, could supply him, and between him and
ssnsidsrsble part q his army, blew up bis mag
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