Posted on 07/25/2024 6:55:14 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.
WASHINGTON, Sunday, July 24 -- 10 P.M.
Official dispatches of another battle before Atlanta, fought on Friday, were received by the authorities last night. At the time of sending the dispatch the contest was still going on, but the results, so far as developed, were favorable. A position had been gained from which SHERMAN was able to bring his siege guns to bear on the city. Extensive fires were raging within its limits as though the rebels were burning stores, &c.
During this engagement Gen. MCPHERSON was allied. This sad report it was at first hoped might prove unfounded, but it has been fully confirmed. In this brilliant young officer the country loses one of its ablest Generals. Gen. GRANT has always placed the very highest estimate on his talent, and after the Vicksburgh campaign addressed him a letter, in which he stated that after SHERMAN, no man in his army had rendered him such service, and done so much for the success of the campaign as he.
Gen. McPherson's Death -- A Battle on Friday -- Fighting Still Going On.
LOUISVILLE, Sunday, July 23.
Major NORCROSS, local Paymaster at Chattanooga, telegraphs Major ALLEN, Chief Paymaster here, that Major-Gen. MCPHERSON was killed yesterday before Atlanta. Another correspondent says he was shot fatally through the lungs.
BALTIMORE, Sunday, July 23.
A private dispatch received by a relative of Gen. MCPHERSON in this city last night, dated near Atlanta, July 23, announces that that gallant officer was killed in battle the day previous, and that his remains would be sent home in charge of members of his staff.
WASHINGTON, Sunday, July 24.
The latest official dispatches from Gen. SHERMAN represent repeated fighting, and give the circumstances attending the death of Gen. MCPHERSON, who fell
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Before Atlanta: A Battle Before Atlanta on Friday – 2-3
From Memphis: Important Victories Gained by General Smith– 3-4
Army of the Potomac: Skirmishing in Burnside’s Front – 4-5
Life in Rebel Prisons: Narrative by an Ohio Boy Just Escaped from Andersonville, Georgia – 5-6
From Mississippi: Gen. Dennis’ Expedition to Jackson – 6
POSTSCRIPT-Atlanta: Details of Operations from Tuesday to Friday – 7
The War in the Southwest: Further Details of Gen. Smith’s Expedition – 7
News from Washington – 7
Editorial: Is Peace Attainable? How? – 7-8
The Battle at Atlanta – 8
Fall of a Great Soldier – 8-9
Editorial: Slavery as a Military Force – 9
The Peace Negotiations – Disclaimer by Thompson – 9
News of the Day: The Rebellion – 9
Billy Sherman’s Boys-rape, burn, pillage, murder civilians. “ Make Georgia howl “.
Trashing out the vineyards where the grapes of wrath are stored.
It is amazing that Sherman, a lousy businessman, friend to a very few, with a harridan wife, was literally forced from San Francisco in the 1850s. He returned to his St. Louis banker friends who saved his bacon.
Methinks General Grant should be relieved of command for not taking Petersburg according to the NYT timeline.
5.56mm
Kicked ass and won the war. Horay!
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