Posted on 07/26/2024 7:12:43 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Monday, July 25.
The Republican, extra, says:
Dispatches to the Government represent that a great battle was fought in Atlanta on Friday, resulting in a horrible slaughter and a complete repulse of the enemy at every point.
The rebels, holding the largest part of the city, assaulted our works on that day with great fury, evidently expecting to drive our forces out of the city. The Fifteenth Corps, commanded by Gen. FRANK BLAIR, seemed to be the special object of rebel wrath, as they massed against it in overwhelming force. The Fifteenth received the shock gallantly, and held its own until Gen. DODGE, with the Sixteenth Corps, came up, when the rebels were hurled back with great slaughter.
Gen. LOGAN, at the head of the Seventeenth Corps, went into battle with the rallying cry of "Remember MCPHERSON."
This corps, as well as BLAIR's Fifteenth Corps, both constituting the army under Maj.-Gen. MCPHERSON, fought desperately -- the news of the death of their brave Commander having been communicated to them just before going into battle.
Gen. MCPHERSON was shot while reconnoitering. He became separated from his staff for a moment, and a rebel sharpshooter shot him from an ambush.
The terrible struggle ended by repulsing the enemy at every point of the line.
It was arranged that on Saturday the dead of both armies should be buried and the wounded removed under a flag of truce.
Our troops buried one thousand rebels left on the field within our lines; besides which the rebels buried many of their own dead themselves near their works. Upon this basis, it is estimated that the rebel killed and wounded, on Friday, will exceed six thousand, the proportion of killed to wounded in battle being about one to seven.
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