The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-04-22

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the North the articles of clothing ant
comfort which they wanted viz, under
! clothing, soap, combs, scissors, etc.
all needed to keep them in health-an6
to send these stores with a train, and
an officer TO issue them. Gen. Hood
on the 24th, promptly consented, and
telegraphed to my friend, Mr.. James e
1eatman, Nice.President of the Sanitary
Commission at ST. Louis, to send us al
the underclothing and soap he could
spare, specifying 1900 fine-tooth comb;
and 400 pairs of shears to cut hair
These articles indicate the plague that
most afflicted our prisoners at Ander
sonville.
Mr.. 1eatman promptly responded tc
my request, expressed the articles, but
they did not reach Andersonyille in
time, for the prisoners were soon after
removed. These supplies did, however,
finally overtake them at Jacksonville,
Fla, just before the war closed.
On the 2Sth | received from Gen.
Grant two dispatches.
CITY POINT, Va, Sept %, 1864; $50 a. m.
Mai SHERMAN:
1t is evident from the tone of the Richmond
press and from other sources Of information
that the enemy intend making desperate eff
tort to drive you from where you are have
directed all new troops from the West, and
from the East, too. if necessary, in case none
are ready in the West to be sent to you. If
D. -t-.l l., ~
Abingdon ] think he had better be recalled
and his surplus troops sent into Tennessee.
u. 5. GRANT, Lieutenant General.
CITY POINT, Va, Sept. 81, 1864; lo:30a. m.
Maj j.-Gen. SHERMAN:
| have directed ali recruits and new troops
from all the Western States to be sent to Nash
Vile, TO receive their further orders from you.
l was mistaken about JEFF Davis being in Rich
mond on Thursday last. He was then on his
way to Macon.
Z. s. GRANT, Lieutenant-G
GEN. THOMAS SENT BACK.
Forrest already having made his ap-
pearance in Middle Tennessee, and
Hood evidently edging off in that di-
rection, satisfied me that the general
movement against our roads had begun.
| therefore determined to send Gen.
Thomas back TO Chattanooga, with
another division (Morgan's, of the Four
teenth Corps, TO meet the danger in
Tennessee. Gen. Thomas went up on
the 29th, and Morgan's Division fol-
lowed the same day, also by rail. And
| telegraphed to Gen. Halleck:
/ take it for granted that Forrest will cut
our road, but think we can prevent him from
making serious lodgment. His cavalry will
travel a hundred miles where ours will ten.
have sent two divisions up to Chattanooga and
one 10 Rome, and Gen. Thomas started to-day
to drive Forrest out of Tennessee. Our roads
should be watched from the rear. and am glad
that Gen. Grant has ordered reserves to Nash
viie / prefer for the future to make the move
ment on Miiedgevlle, Milep, and Savannah.
Hood now rests "a miles south, on the Chatta-
hoochee. with his right on the West Point road.
he is removing the iron of the Macon road. /
can whip his infantry. but his cavalry is to be
feared.
There was great difficulty in obtain
ing correct information about Hoods
movements from Palmetto Station. /
could not get spies to penetrate his
camps, but on the 1st of October / was
satisfied that the bulk of his infantry
was at and across the Chattahoochee
River, near Campbellton, and that his
cavalry was On the west side, at Powder
Springs. On that day telegraphed to
Gen. Grant:
HOODS MOVEMENTS
Hood is evidently across the Chattahoochee.
below Sweetwater. If he tries to get on our
road, this side of the Etowab. shall attack
him but if he goes TO the Selma & Taladega
road, why will it not do TO leave Tennessee to
the forces which Thomas has, and the reserves
soon TO come TO Nashville, and Tor nae to de-
stroy Atlanta and march across Georgia to
Savannah or Charleston, breaking roads and
doing irreparable damage? We cannot remain
on the defensive
The Selma & Talladega road herein
referred TO was an unfinished railroad
from Selma, Ala, through Talladega,
to Blue Mountain, terminus 65 miles
southwest Of Rome and about 10 miles
southeast of Gadsden, where the rebel
army could be supplied from the direc-
ton Of Montgomery and Mobile, and
from which point Hood could easily
threaten Middle Tennessee. Ny first
impression was, that Hood would make
for that point; but by the Sd of
October the indications were that he
would strike our railroad nearer US, viz,
about Kingston or Marietta.
Orders were at once made for the
Twentieth Corps (Slocun's) to hold
Atlanta and the bridges of the Chat
tahoochee, and the other corps were put
in motion for Marietta.
The army had undergone many
changes since the capture of Atlanta.
Gen. Schofeld had gone to the rear,
leaving Gen. J. ID. Cox in command Of
the Army of the Ohio (Twenty-third
Corps. Gen. Thomas, also, had been
dispatched to Chattanooga, with New
Morgan's, Of the Fourteenth Corps, leav-
toms Division, Of the Fourth Corps, and
ing Gen. ID. S. Stanley, the senior Major
General of the two corps of his Army
Of the Cumberland, remaining and avail
able for this movement, viz, the Fourth
and Fourteenth. commanded by himself
and Maj-Gen. JEFF c. Davis; and after
Gen. Dodge was wounded, his Corps
(the SIXTEENTH had been broken up,