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The Daily Dispatch: May 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], Newspaper accounts from Georgia. (search)
uation. By private dispatches we were yesterday morning informed of the change of the telegraph office from Resaca to Calhoun. Our own correspondent writes from Calhoun, under date of Sunday, that "all the trains, hospitals, and supplies are being moved to Cassville. The enemy are still attempting to flank, and it would be diffie. Our army was on this side of the river, and that of the enemy on the other. It was said that one corps of the enemy, perhaps, had crossed at the ford west of Calhoun. The Resaca bridge was burned Sunday morning. In the fighting on Sunday our whole army was not engaged. Indeed the greater portion of it has not yet been under ttle of the pluck which seems to have characterized their recent charges upon our entrenchments. There was no fighting of consequence in the neighborhood of Calhoun yesterday morning when the train left. P. S.--Later.--There was a heavy attack made upon our lines on Sunday night about 10 o'clock, which was repulsed with
The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], Harper's Weekly, (search)
wants them, and we know that it is only at the point he quits retreating that he begins to be effective by fighting. We learn that General Channers, with a cavalry force of five thousand men, captured and destroyed three railroad trains at Calhoun on the State told, but have not learned any particulars. There are numerous rumors concerning the whereabouts and doings of Forrest, but we do not learn anything to be positively depended on, though we hope that even the half of the romantiCalhoun, a distance of only twenty nine miles. He reached there Friday evening, and captured three locomotives and three large trains of cars, laden with army stores. These he burned, and after burning a small bridge across a creek this side of Calhoun, proceeded in the direction of Resaca, at which place it was supposed he would burn the bridge. He has also captured many prisoners, and is tearing up the track of the railroad on his march. You will recollect that in one of my previous letter
The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
k's troops had lost a position commanding our bridges; and received from Major-General Martin a report that the Federal infantry was crossing the Gostanaula, near Calhoun, on a pontoon bridge. The instructions to Lieutenant-General Hood were revoked, and Walker's division sent to the point named by Major-General Martin. On the 15th, there was severe skirmishing on the whole front. Major-General Walker reported no movement near Calhoun. Lieutenant-General Hood was directed to prepare to move forward, his right leading, supported by two brigades from Polk's and Hardee's corps. When he was about to move, information came from Major-General Walker that hat night, destroying the bridges behind it. On the 16th, the enemy crossed the Gostanaula. Lieutenant-General Hardee skirmished with them successfully near Calhoun. The fact that a part of Polk's troops were still in the rear, and the great numerical superiority of the Federal army, made it expedient to risk battle only
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