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The Daily Dispatch: October 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
y settled that a large force of rebel infantry is operating in those counties. Hitherto it has been thought that cavalry only were so far from home. Rome, Georgia, was abandoned, and is now used as a rebel base of supplies, which are brought there on the Coosa river. Resaca has been attacked by a party traveling northward; the road torn up again near Tilton; Dalton captured; Ringgold, Tunnel Hill and Cleveland evacuated, and a concentration of Union forces has taken place here. Colonel Johnson, of the Forty-fourth United States colored troops, who garrisoned Dalton, surrendered to a vastly superior force night before last, seeing that resistance was hopeless. All but seventy-five or eighty of his command were taken by the enemy. No great amount of supplies fill into the enemy's hands; but his possession of the post, the railroad, and some hundreds of sturdy Africans, was indisputable. The guards and garrisons at Tunnel Hill and Ringgold rightly considered discretion the be