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The Daily Dispatch: August 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
An Enormous Lie. We have before alluded to the statement of the Virginia renegade, General Thomas, made "in an order of the day," to the effect that he had buried three thousand two hundred of our dead after the battles of the 20th and 22d ultimo, before Atlanta, when, in point of fact, and according to the admission of the New York World, the Yankees sustained a most disastrous repulse, and would have been utterly routed but for the exertions of McPherson, who was killed in the action. In order that the public may have the best possible opportunity to pass judgment upon this report, we here republish it, with an analysis of its confused statement: "army headquarters, July 26, 1864. "The Major-General commanding the army congratulates the troops upon the brilliant success attending the Union arms in the late battles. In the battle of the 20th instant, in which the Twentieth corps, one division of the Fourth corps, and part of the Fourteenth corps were engaged, the tota