The National tribune., 1900-10-11
PLENTY OF FIGHTING.

On the 10Th we were in line OF battle
one and a half miles from Marietta.
About o'clock in the afternoon the reb-
els made charge, but soon We're repulsed.
They could not stand the Spencers. We
lay there all night, our skirmish-line SEEM
ing to think it necessary to rob US of what
sleep we might have gotten by exchanging
compliments with the enemy.
We were put out at the same place
again on June 90 About o'clock in
the afternoon we made an attack. We
fought about two hours, but finally gave
back, darkness coming on. The enemy s
loss was greater than ours. The AdJu-
tant- Generals report showed that our di-
vision, the Second, of the Fourteenth
Corps. lost 45 killed and so wounded, and
75 killed and 100 wounded and 200 pris-
oners was the eDemy's loss. There was
heavy fighting along most of the line.
We got a good time for sleep that night.
We had been on duty for 4S hours with
little rest and only cat-naps in lieu OF
sleep.
Tuesday found us in camp close to
MONDAY Creek, not far north of Marietta.
We lay in line all night, for we knew not
what moment we would be called upon
to defend our lines. There was fierce
fighting on Kenesaw all day, and it was
very rainy and disagreeable.
We went down to Canton, the County
Seat of Cherokee Co., next day, drove a
small band of rebels out of town, taking
some prisoners, and returned to find that
the rebels had evacuated Marietta and
fallen back toward Atlanta. Sherman S
forces occupied Marietta and the north
spur Of Kenesaw.
We crossed MONDAY Greek on the ODD,
and running into the enemy had three
hours fight. One of Co. F's men got shot
in the hand. The enemy fell back to their
IMPROVED RING CONTESTS.
We spent Friday cleaning up generally
and drawing clothing and rations. We
amused ourselves by wagering on excit-
ing battles between pairs of our gray
back friends, hordes of which we seized
the opportunity to turn off from their
warm nesting places into the cold world
or hot fire. We would put two gray
backs" on plank, worry them bit, and
soon we would have ''mill'' of the most
approved kind. One condition they in
sisted upon as necessary to hostilities.
that was that they should not be pitted
against those who had sojourned in the
clothing of the same person as themselves,
but each was ready to fight an outsider.
Two of them would fight until one was
eXterminated.
We moved camp about two miles and
guarded the bridge across MONDAY Greek.
There was considerable fighting at Lost
Mountain. We could see the rebels sig
mails, and finally captured one of their sig
nal men, who admitted that the signals
had ordered that the army leave kenesaw
and Lost Mountain and fall back to At
lanta.
Sunday afternoon, after lying all day in
line against the extreme right of the Ell
emy, we went into camp farther up Noon
day Creek and next day marched little
farther, built breastworks and soon found
we were fronting the rebels. We skir-
mished with them until late in the even
turned to camp, where our horses were.
We lay in camp next day 10 miles north
east Of Marietta.
MAKING THEM MOVE.
The enemy was repulsed on our right
next day by Mcpherson, losing in four
charges nearly 400 men killed on the field
and 600 wounded. We began to get many
escaped Union prisoners, who had terri
BILE experiences to relate.
On June 80 Sherman, close to Lost
Mountain, opened his batteries, and there
was hard fighting until noon, when the
enemy withdrew, leaving the ground
strewn with dead and wounded. 1t grew
hotter than ever, occasional rain still fell,
and many of the boys suffered from sun
stroke.
Co. e, 123d ILL.,, lay on our arms all
night on picket, as We had done the night
before, and when morning dawned the
Johnnies were in our front. We were
soon relieved by Co. G. There had been
another one of those flank movements by
Sherman, and the enemy was falling back
toward Atlanta, and evacuated Marietta,
Kenesaw and Lost Mountain
On the I'd we moved and drove the en-
emy out of Big Shanty and camped. The
heat and sultriness continued. Next day
we marched for many hours, and just
when we thought we were going to get
well-earned rest and were about to get
supper We were ordered out again. There
was growing Of all kinds, but we went,
of course. We marched eight miles,
through Marietta, ran against a force of
rebels, drove them across the Chatta-
hoochee, captured two pieces, and re-
turned to camp, four miles north of Ma
rietta.
(To be continued)