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The Daily Dispatch: August 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
command of the cavalry in the Valley. Brigadier-General Pegram is in command of the division of General Ramseur, who has been ordered to Richmond. This young officer is a son of General James W. Pegram, deceased, formerly a citizen of Richmond. The situation in Georgia. The enemy in front of Atlanta was less demonstrative than usual on Tuesday. The artillery firing was almost entirely suspended, which conjecture attributes to a scarcity of ammunition, caused by an interruption of Sherman's communications. There is no certainty of this, however, and the next news may announce a resumption of the shelling in full vigor. The enemy's raiding parties are again at work. One of them struck the Atlanta and West Point railroad at Fairburn, burned the depot, and tore up the track in several places. Fairburn is nineteen miles from Atlanta in a southwesterly direction. It is to be hoped that our cavalry will check and scatter this gang, as they did Stoneman's and McCook's. We
The Daily Dispatch: August 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
cotton-clads, captured, together with their officers and crews. Fort Gaines surrendered, and its garrison of six hundred men is held as prisoners of war. No details of the surrender of the fort are given. On the 8th, the right wing of Sherman's army had advanced three miles northward of Atlanta and to within a mile and a half of the Macon road. On the 10th, Sherman had reached, by gradual approaches, to within a mile of the Macon road. At every step he fortified his position very sSherman had reached, by gradual approaches, to within a mile of the Macon road. At every step he fortified his position very strongly. The Confederate works are represented to be very formidable, and it is confidently reported that Hood has received reinforcements. Reports from New Orleans, to which considerable credence appears to be attached, state that Beauregard has joined Hood at Atlanta with twenty thousand men. A Confederate force, over two thousand strong, has occupied Morganfield, Kentucky, and is menacing the border towns of Indiana. General Carrington has made a requisition on Governor Morton for
The Daily Dispatch: August 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], Ran away from my farm, at the Half-way House (search)
of the bay so as to prevent the enemy from making a water base near the city for the advance of an army. The loss of Grant's pass gives the enemy this advantage. That is, he can now sail up the bay with his transports, loaded with supplies and troops, thus dispensing with wagon trains, and land within a short distance of the city. But when he does this, he has to encounter the inner line of defences. When he does that, he is no nearer to taking Mobile than Grant is to taking Petersburg; Sherman, Atlanta; or Foster, Charleston. In other words, this city is a long ways from "going up." General Canby does not command troops enough to take the city by land, nor Farragut ships enough to break through the guns and obstructions on the water front. Brigadier-General Higgins, who seems to have command of the harbor defences of Mobile, has issued the following order to prevent the surrender or evacuation of any more forts: I. In view of the recent evacuation of Fort Powell withou