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The Daily Dispatch: October 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
y of twenty to watch the movements of Colonel Palmer, commanding General Vaughn's advance guard, when he surprised them and captured the whole squad. From General Hood's Army. There is very little room to doubt that, by this time, General Hood's army is in Tennessee. The latest Northern accounts report it at Gunter's lanGeneral Hood's army is in Tennessee. The latest Northern accounts report it at Gunter's landing, on the Tennessee river, about to cross. It left Gadaden, Alabama, on Saturday, the 22d, and started on the road for the plant, thirty miles distant, at which the Yankees announce its arrival. On Friday, the Cooss river was crossed. The transportation quickly followed, and at noon the pontoon was taken up and also hurried d to follow his corps; "but," said he, we are going home now, and I'll strap myself to my saddle before they shall leave me behind." General Beauregard is with General Hood. Every general officer is at his post and the spirit and morale of the men unbounded. The army received thirty thousand additional blankets before it started
The Daily Dispatch: October 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
lle, dated the 26th, says that Sherman is at Gavissville, Alabama, near the Coose river, and that Hood is retreating towards Gadsden, Alabama. The railroad from Chattanooga to Atlanta was to be complay. A letter from Chattanooga, dated the 20th, says: As the chances of a grand battle with Hood's army, the same being nicely sandwiched between two of our armies, each larger than the lame Texhe affair. We know how much damage has been inflicted; we know that we can get to Atlanta before Hood if he turns that way; we know that troops; new and old, are pouring in here with rapidity and bodthe troops here have pushed to the front, and are now in communication with Sherman; we know that Hood can get away if he wants to, and that he has such a desire; and the result of all this knowledge he status of affairs there. The garrison.--which is sufficient to make a prolonged resistance to Hood's whole force — have been working day and night on fortifications, and have completed three new l
The Daily Dispatch: October 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], Vice-President Stephens's and Sherman's Proposition to negotiate. (search)
he Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad on Monday, going north. A. strong force has been sent after them. The latest from Hood's Army. The Yankees say they have nothing more from Sherman. A telegram from Nashville, dated the 27th, says that the General Lyon has crossed the Tennessee river near the mouth of White Oak creek. A negro soldier, who had escaped from General Hood's army reports that Lee's corps, of that army, was marching to Whitesburg, there to cross the river. The main body waort of the critical situation of Sherman's army in Georgia, for want of commissary supplies, is unfounded. At the time of Hood's movement northward there were at Atlanta twenty days supplies for the whole Union army. The departure of the larger portion in pursuit of Hood leaves nearly three months supplies for the garrison in the town. There is a scarcity of forage, but the absence of the majority of the animals will allow for some weeks a sufficiency for those that remain. Altoona, another