The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-08-04
sTROUDsBURG MONROE AUGUST 1854

preparing to do so. Col. Anson Nc
Cooks brigade was partially engaged, be-
having nobly, and repulsing the enemy
from beginning to the. end. About 9
P. M. the enemy abandoned the fight in
front of Geary and Williams, carrying off
many of their dead and wounded, and
falling back to their heavy works, about
a mile distant In front of Ward and
Newton he was compelled to leave all
the dead and severely wounded:
Judging from great piles heaped up
there, the enemy lost in killed and wound
ed alone 5000. We captured about / )
600 prisoners. The loss in Hooker's
corps (ohiciaD is as follows: Williams
division, G27 Geary's 457; Wards, 527 !;
total, 1911. Newton's division Official },
l02; Fourteenth Corps, 200. Total Joss
1918.
The statement that off troops were in
Notifications is untrue. They were ad-
vancing to take new position when at
tackled, and, save with Newton, who had
some half-fnished rail barricades, the
fight was an open one. Even the ag
gressive Hood is not fool enough to at
tack us in trehches. Prisoners were cap
tured from every corps in the rebel army,
all of whom said the programme was to
drive us into the Chattahoochee river,
and that nearly their entire army was en-
gagged.
During the progress of the fight vari-
Gus corps on the left advanced over
mile, Mcpherson at nightfall being with
in two and half miles of Atlanta, and
no portion of our lines more than four
miles distant. I left the front July q,
at P. NJ. at the time our right was es-
tablished on the battlefield about four
miles from Atlanta; the left was within
long range shelling distance. The enemy
stuck closely to his heavy works girdling
the town, mile or two outside the sub
urbs.
Thus ended this sanguinary conflict
No more brilliant victory has crowned
the Union arms since the beginning of
the war. Gen Hooker has earned new
the gratitude of the nation. Palmer,
Newton, Ward, Williams, Geary, and
their subordinates and soldiers, cannot be
too highly praised. Gen. johnson was
as faithful here as everywhere else.
Our loss will amount to two thousand
men, principally on Hooker's front, be-
cause his troops fought in an open field.
The rebel loss in killed, wounded and
prisoners, will reach six thousad, of whom
fully one thousand were killed outright.
Three rebel Brigadier Generals were
killed-Stephens, Weatherstone and Long.
On Bard's and Davis's front heavy skir-
mishing took place during the day. On
the left wing, Mcpherson. drove the enc
my several miles, Blair operating on the
extreme left, Logan next, and Dodge
next, partly in line and partly in reserve.
Bair's corps advanced mile and half
south of the Augusta Railroad.
Gen Greshien, who commanded his
right division, was grievously wounded.
Altogether, the operations on the left
were highly successful On the morning
of the 21st, Johnston's and Baird's divi-
sions of Palmer's corps were moved for
ward, and, after brisk contest, in which
we lost perhaps one hundred men, the
rebels were driven from the ridge in
front, the whole Of which was now in our
possession.
BY the morning of the 22d the rebels
had withdrawn entirely from Palmer's
and Hooker's front and at 2 A. NJ. part
of our army entered Atlanta.
We may have more fighting yet for the
full possession of the city, but consider
that, for the present, the campaign is
substantially closed,