GEN. GRANT’S DEPARTMENT: Heavy Arrivals of Troops and Supplies; The Rebel Army in Georgia Thirty Thousand Strong (1/24/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 1/24/1864

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CHATTANOOGA, Saturday. Jan. 23.

Trains are running regularly between Nashville and Chattanooga. Col. McCALLUM has arrived here with 1,000 mechanics and laborers, and the work of rebuilding the railroad to Knoxville will be commenced at once.

Supplies are accumulating, and Quartermasters commenced issuing full rations to the soldiers to-day.

A large number of veteran volunteers have left the army, but the balance of power is maintained by raw recruits from the North and deserters from the South.

Seven hundred recruits came down this morning.

On Monday last 150 rebels deserted and today a squad of 14 rebels.

The rebel army which holds the position at Dalton to believed to number 30,000 men. The Tennessee and Kentucky troops are camped in the centre under a guard.

It is positively known that the rebel soldiers are killing their best mules for subsistence.

Gen. GRANT came to the front this morning.

Gen. JUDAH has left for. Knoxville to resume command of his old division, the Twenty-third corps.

Surgeon H.S. HEWETT has been assigned by Gen. GRANT Medical Director of the Department of Ohio, to report to Gen. FOSTER in the field.

No demonstrations have recently been made by rebel guerrillas on our front.

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Gen. Grant’s Department: Heavy Arrivals of Recruits and Supplies – 2
Affairs at Nashville: Re-enlisting and Returning Regiments – 2
Interesting from Richmond: Inside View of Southern Affairs – 2-3
Gen. Banks’ Department: The Fate of Captured Officers from the Corps D’Afrique – 3
The Great Metropolitan Fair: Our Merchants –3
Department of the South: Flag of Truce to Rebeldom – 3-4
News from Washington: Special Dispatches to the N.Y. Times – 4
Editorial: Desperate Rebel Expedients – 4
Editorial: No Relaxation of Effort – 4-5
Editorial: A Contrast – Patriotism at Home and in the Field – 5
Editorial: The Anglo-Maorian War – 5