The National tribune., 1909-07-01
An Hour of Thrilling Work.

The long campaign was now about to
close, the fate of Atlanta was to be
sealed by an intense hour of wild, saw
age work The curtain was to go down
in mad melee of bayonet thrusts and
crashing musket blows, upon the drama
which had opened just 100 days before
and 100 miles away before the scarped
natural bat Elements of Rocky Face
Ridge.
The manuvering, tine days of skir-
mishng and the nights of marching
and intrenching, the picket's vigil, the
| sharpshooter's slaughter, the wild
| charge and the stubborn defense, were
| all to culminate in one last fierce, mad
rush across the cotton fields, straight at
the embattled front of the enemy.
The long, ghastly trail of the dead
over mountain, dale and river valley
was to conclude with the shallow graves
on the red clay hills of Flint River,
which would receive blue and gray
alike, those who had followed the Flag
and those who had struck at il.
| Sherman came up to Howard as Lo-
gan had finished his battle, and the de-
| feated enemy sullenly retreated to the
works from which they had emerged.
| Sherman instantly bent his thoughts
upon surrounding, capturing and de-
stroying the force which Logan had re-
| pulsed He sent orders in all haste to
| forward to Jonesboro. Stanley was hur-
| ried forward, and Jeff C. Davis or
dered to bring the Fourteenth Corps to
Howard's left. and, swinging around to
the right endeavor to envelop Hardee's
right Blair was ordered to make de-
tour to the right and reach the railroad
| south of Jonesboro, so as to cut off re-
treat in that direction. Schofield closed
| up behind the Fourth Corps
| Hardee comprehended the impending
storm, and hastened to get into shape
to meet it. He hurried his men behind
the strong works which ran in front of
Jonesboro, with sharply refused right
| covering the railroad. On this refused
right was Clebarhe's Division. with Co
vans Brigade holding the angle, Gran
berry on his left and Lewis's Brigade
on his right -
Sept. / was spig with events, and
everyone in, all the regiments so felt 1t.
Gen. Logan says that he saw Gen.
Thomas gallop 5his horse for the only
time during the campaign. All the
movements were made with a celerity
and certainty astonishing, even, in such
veteran soldiersoas they were. Davis
was marching the Fourteenth Corps
straight doWn toward the north front
of the works aTPund Jonesboro. with
the Army 9f ths Tennessee advancing
on his right and the Fourth Corps COM
ing down an his left, followed by the
Army of tRe Ohio. About o'clock of
the bright september afternoon Davis
had his corps Well in hand with the
divisions in echelon in front of cot
ton field, beyond which rose the Con-
| federate intrenchmeIts.
| Tense Fighting Fitch.
The spirit of the army was at fighting
pitch, and everybody wanted an imme-
date settlement. Tho voice of the Gen.
erals was that of the men for a swift,
hard blow and charge home and an end
of the long struggle. man to man and
bayonet to bayonet
The previous history Of the war was
| filed with stories OF gallant charges
and bloody repulses, In few i'll
omened hours OF short Winters day
900 men of the Army of the Potomac
had fallen at Fredericksburg upon
nights no more formidable than those