The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-06-20
MISCELLANEOUS
Latest About the Situation in
Georgia,

Through the courtesy of Mr w O Barnes, Of The
Southern Express Company, We have received At
lanta papers Of the l4th inst They contain The
following late exposition Of The pOsiiioa Of affairs
there
The armies in Georgia are In close proximity at
the foot "i kenucsaw Mountain, and whilst sach
severe TaiHs AS have flooded lhe c"anisy duling the
past week, continue, the probability u that theIe
will not be any grand movements on ciiher side.
On Saturday morning the eaeMy made a heavy
movement from their position At Bag ShaAly, to-
ward our entire centre, hut IL seemed eventually
only for the u,pOse Of strengthening their Wings.
large body OF their forces left Big ehanty about
ten clock in the morning and marched In battle
order on our left Some two hours later they acct
IDENTIFY discovered Gen Bates's position which
was some distance beyond our main line, and
heavy fight soon ragged in the woods where our
forces were posted. The rear Of the Yaakte
column was hurried up, and the eight continued
about an hour, when the enemy retired.
This movement we presume. was necesstsaied
by the appearance Of Gen. Cleburne'U command
coming 10 baies's support. Large bodies Of the
enemy continued to pour out from their CENTRE aud
al point about two miles from our ines, separau
to the rignt and lett. heavy skirMish c0mineaced
about noon on our right. The enemy advanced q
strong line Of skismisaes haif way across large
fieid Wheie the deadened timber furnished them =
good shelter, but alter hOuis' safp skjr0ishthR
,nsy retired rapidly, canyias with lhem severI
who had fallen. heavy thundeI storm occurred
this time. but rapid skrMishias c0wsinued una
bated UP to Ei.htiali. The enemy had one d.
The Gpgoiha road, and IL beloved Its decp
uthed notes daring the entire afternoon, shelf
lug Jackson's cavalry camp This qua and four
IL pOunder Nap lIe0Rs were the only asitlesy posi-
tiOus exposed either side. The demon slTaIions
of the enemy did not elicit single response tt0m
0ny heavy ordnance during The entire day.
We thiak the entire movements Of the day were
intended to feel and learn accurately the position
vi our liaes. Sherman evidently was nsakiug
heavy wedge like centre movement. He seems
TO have abaadoned our left aank, o. at least the
~ hat
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