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th says: Advices from Jonesboro' to the 2d instant were received this morning. General Hood's army was then retreating, with General Sherman's forces hanging closely on his rear. The head of the Union column was skirmishing with the rebel rear near Fayetteville, six miles from Jonesboro'. The righting around Jonesboro' had been very severe, and the enemy was routed at all points. On the 30th ultimo the Fourth and Twenty-third corps struck the Macon line, five miles beyond East Point. In the meantime, the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth corps and Kilpatrick's cavalry were skirmishing briskly with the enemy on our right, driving him across Flint river into Jonesboro' Hazon's division, of the Sixteenth corps, took possession of a prominent hill on the way to the enemy's position. On the next day the enemy burst en masse on the Fifteenth corps; but their repeated assaults were repulsed, and they lost several general officers, including Major- General Anderson,