OUR ARMY IN GEORGIA: THE ADVANCE TOWARD ATLANTA; The Assault of Our Troops Upon Kenesaw Mountain (7/8/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 7/8/1864

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Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.

WASHINGTON, Thursday, July 7.

The Government is in constant telegraphic communication with the army in Georgia, and all dispatches from Gen. SHERMAN are at once forwarded direct to Gen. GRANT, at City Point. Gen. GRANT takes the deepest interest in the great campaign of the West, as well as in that conducted in Virginia under his own eye; and though the control of operations is with Gen. SHERMAN, yet he is actively aided by GRANT, both in the way of advice and otherwise.

The latest dispatches are dated at Marietta, which our army reached at the opening of this week. The real defensive line of the rebels in Northern Georgia is now the Chattahoochie River, some half a dozen miles north of Atlanta, though JOHNSTON will, of course, obstruct our advance to it for as long a time as possible. SHERMAN confidently expects to force the passage of the river without much loss, and with much less labor than it has cost for th mountain strongholds of the rebels, which he has in succession captured. Atlanta is elaborately fortified after the fashion of the first line before Petersburgh and the works around Richmond. It is very defensible, the region around, though not mountainous, being hilly, and furnishing many commanding positions. It can be flanked after we command the crossing of the Chattahoochie, by moving a short distance down the north bank of that stream, and then striking for Fayatteville, but that operation would be a perilous one for Gen. SHERMAN. Were the investment of the place feasible, and perhaps by rapid and skillful movement, and with our large army this may be accomplished, the whole problem of the war in the Southwest would be greatly simplified.

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Our Army in Georgia: The Advance Toward Atlanta – 2-4
List of Wounded in the Field Hospital of the Eighteenth Army Corps – 4
The Rebel Raid: The Invaders in Considerable Force – 4-5
Army of the Potomac: Heavy Firing Near Petersburgh – 5-7
From the South: Additional Details of General Hunter’s Raid – 7-8
POSTSCRIPT-The Raid: The Rebels Checked at Monocacy Bridge – 8
News from Washington – 8-9
Editorial: The Rebel Raiders in the North – The Policy for Pennsylvania – 9
Editorial: The Maryland Raid – 9-10
Editorial: Playing Possum – Making Believe Dead – The Last Secesh Trick in Europe – 10
Georgia – 10
Cricket: New-York vs. Massachusetts – 10

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*Spoiler alert* The sad end to Gen. James McPherson’s demise at the Battle of Atlanta coming up, followed by the internal drama that Sherman caused with his replacement appointment of Otis Howard over Blackjack Logan, one of the few capable political generals. This move would cause Sherman some grief later as General in Chief of the Army.