The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-09-19

command Oh the Army Oh tne IennSS-
see. Within few hours after assum-
ing this position he commenced the
battle of Peach Tree Creek, in which
army lost but 1000. He attempted to
pierce the Union centre, and attacked
Hooker with two corps. The engage
ment lasted four hours and resulted in
a complete defeat of the Southern
forces. On the 22d he fought the bat
tie in which General Mcpherson was
killed, and which was called the battle
of Atlanta. 1t lasted only five hours,
yet a correspondent writing at the time
says that 2,i00 men We're killed or
wounded. Six days later he was again
defeated by Logan, losing 5000 men.
On August 31st he met with another
defeat at Jonesborough, which practi-
cally put an end to the campaign. He
evacuated Atlanta on the next day.
From that day forth all his struggles
We're carried on against hope. The
army was shattered and the cause of
the South lost. He tried northward
march into Tennessee. Here he fought
the two battles of Franklin and Nash
vile. The following is an extract from
his official report of the former:
"About four o'clock p. M, Novem-
Der 80, we attacked the enemy at
Franklin and drove them from their
centre line of temporary works into the
inner lines, where they evacuated dur
ing the night, leaving their dead and
wounded in our possession, and retired
to Nashville, closely followed by our
cavalry. We captured several stands
of colors and about one thousand pris-
oners. Our troops fought with great
gallantry."
Concerning the battle of Nashville
General Beauregard wrote in des-
patch to General Cooper:
"General Hood reports from Spring
Hill, December 81, 1864, that on the
morning of the 18th inst, in front OF
Nashville, the enemy attacked both
fanks of his army. They We're re-
pulsed on the right with heavy loss,
but towards evening they drove in his
infantry outposts on the left flank.
Early on the 10th the enemy made a
general attack on his entire line. All
their assaults were handsomely re-
pulsed with heavy loss until half-past
six p. M, when a portion of our line
to the left of the centre suddenly gave
way, causing our lines to give way at
all points, our troops retreating. rapidly.
Fifty pieces of artillery and several
y
that day. Our loss in killed and
wounded heretofore small-in prisoners
not ascertained. Major General Ed
ward Jackson and Brigadier Generals
7. b. Smith and H. r. Jackson are
captured"
On January %, 1865, Hood was SUI
perseded at Tupelo, Miss, by General
Taylor, and he returned to Georgia,
| where he made speech at Macon Jan
uary 30, encouraging the people and
exhorting them not to lose hope. This
action he repeated at Augusta on Feb
ruary 1. Meanwhile he brought con-
siderable unfavorable comment on him
self by his report of his doings while
commanding the Army of the Tennes-
see. He laid much of the blame of his
failure on Johnson, and much bitter
feeling was created thereby. On the
conclusion of the war he visited Wash
ington, and had interviews with Jeffer-
son Davis in reference to the occur
rences with which both We're connected.
After the close of the war Gen. Hood
took up his residence in New Orleans,
where he had since dwelt.
General Hood leaves eleven children,
the eldest ten years and the youngest
twins of three weeks old. His phys
ical condition had been bad for some
time, the cause being, it is said, anxiety
arising from financial reverses and the
| terrible blow he received in the death
of his wife. He leaves manuscript of a
history of the war, which he intended
to have published this fall.
Up to the last he showed his mill
tary instinct in his choice of express
sions. Perceiving slight favorable
symptoms, he said to DR.. Bemiss,
owe may yet dislodge the enemy"
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