The National tribune., 1893-04-27

will be taken" Col. Clark L. Viewer, 17tl
| Iowa, was i'll command his force consisting o
the 56th ILL.,. S0th Ohio and two companies o
| tho 10th Mo. Col. Viewer replied, declining t.
accede to the demand. The skirmishing waa
! then resumed and continued until the night o.
the 18th, when the enemy withdrew. Co. II
! 10th No., and Co. Z, oath Mo-, stationed at the
| construction yard three miles north of Resaca
were overpowered and compelled to surrender
after a gallant resistance The 18th Iowa
| garrisoning Tilton Ga, was also compelled tC
surrender after resistance of five hours. These
organizations all belonged to the Second Bri.
gade, Third Division, Fifteenth Corps. The
loss was Is commissioned officers and 304 en-
listed men captured.
The First and Second Divisions Woods and
Hazen) continued with the Army of the Ten
nessee in the pursuit of Hood. Gen. Sherman,
becoming satisfied that Hood was simply draw
ing him out of Georgia and would not fight,
abandoned the pursuit, and began his prepara-
tions for his march through Georgia, leaving
Hood to the care of Thomas, then in command
at Nashville. The Fourth aud Twenty bird
Corps were detached and ordered to report to
Thomas, and the Army of the Tennessee moved
back TO the neighbOrhood of Smyrna Camp
ground and the Fourteenth Corps to Kingston.
Gen. Sherman reached Kingston on the I'd of
November, and there directed all surplus artil-
lery, all baggage not needed, all sick, wounded,
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operation consumed the time until the 11th of
November when, everything being ready, Gen.
Corse, who still remained at Rome, was ordered
to destroy the bridges there, all fOundries,
mills, shops, warehouses or other property that
could be useful to an enemy, and TO move to
Kingston. The railroads in and about Atlanta
and between the Et0wah and the Chattahoo
che were also ordered to be destroyed, and all
garrisons north of Kingston were withdrawn
to Chattanooga, taking with them all the pub.
lie property, and all railroad stock and the rails
from Resaca back were taken up and saved.
MARCH TO THE SEA.
By the 14th of November all the troops had
arrived at or near Atlanta and were in accord
ance with orders grouped into two wings; the
Right and Left, commanded respectively by
Maj.-Gens. Howard and Slocum. The Right
Wing was composed of the Fifteenth and the
Seventeenth Corps and the Left Wing of the
Fourteenth and Twentieth Corps.
The Third Division of the Fifteenth Corps,
which, during the Atlanta campaign. was
guarding railroads and lines Of communication
in the rear, rejoined the corps on the 18th, and
was supplied with the necessary stores, etc,
for the coming campaign.
The march from Atlanta began on the morn
ing of the 18th of November, the Right Wing
following substantially the two roads toward
Macon, by Jonesboro and McDonough reaching
the Ocmulgee at Planters Factory, which they
crossed by the aid of the pontoon train during
the 18th and 18th of November Gen. Howard
then, with the Seventeenth Corps, marched via
Monticello toward Gordon, having dispatched
Kilpatrick's Cavalry, supported by the Fif.
teenth Corps, to feign on Macon. Fitzpatrick
met the enemy's cavalry about four miles out
of Macon and drove them rapidly back into
the bridge dcfenses held by infantry. Kill
patrick charged these, got inside the parapet
but could not hold it, and retired to his in
fantry supports near GriswOd Station. The
Fifteenth Corps tore up the railroad track east
ward from Griswoldville, leaving Woods's Di-
vision behind as rear guard, one brigade of
which (Walcutts) was intrenched across the
road, with some Of Kilpatrick's Cavalry on the
tanks. On Nov. %. the enemy came cut of
Macon and attacked this brigade, but were
repulsed and driven back into
Macon. The loss in this affair was ii killed,
7S wounded. and two missing.
By Dec 10 the army had reached the de-
fenses of Savannah, and Gen. Howard was
to send a division with ali his ell
gineers to Kings Bridge 14l miles southwest
from Savannah, to rebuild it. Gen. Hazen's