SHERMAN’S ARMY: Great Losses of the Rebels in the Battles of the 22d and 23d; GENERAL HOOD REPORTED KILLED (7/28/1864)

Information received from an officer at the front says, in two battles in front of Atlanta, we have destroyed the better portion of the enemy's best two corps.

All the prisoners captured on the 22d and 23d, unite in saying that the rebel Gen. HOOD was killed on the 22d.

Maj. Gen. ROUSSEAU and staff arrived last night from Marietta. His raid was the most successful during the war. His total loss was five killed and thirteen wounded. He captured and paroled 2,000 rebels, and killed and wounded 200. He also captured 800 horses and mules and about the same number of contrabands. He destroyed thirty-one miles of the railroad, great quantities of stores, cotton, &c. and thirteen railroad depots at points along the Atlanta and Montgomery Railroad.

Official information from Atlanta states that there were no operations yesterday, but there was hard work in the trenches. There had been no fighting.

Major L.W. KELLY, late Mayor of Natchez, has just arrived from the front, which place he left Monday night. He reports of the Friday's fight in front of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Corps, that our men buried three thousand two hundred and twenty-one.

We captured one thousand prisoners and eleven hundred seriously wounded, and eleven stand of colors. Among the prisoners are thirty-three officers, from rank of Colonel down. The slightly wounded were taken off the field by the rebels.

Gen. JOHN A. LOGAN estimates the loss of the rebels at 12,000. Our loss, Including killed, wounded and missing foots up 3,120.

Atlanta is in plain view. Gen. SHERMAN does not desire to enter Atlanta at present,

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Sherman’s Army: Great Losses of the Rebels in the Battles of the 22d and 23d – 2-3
From Gen. Grant’s Army: The Rebels Claim a Decided Victory at Atlanta– 3
Army of the Potomac: An Artillery Episode – 4
Southern Views – 4
Arrest of the Editor of the Savannah Plain-Dealer – 4
From Memphis – 4
The Guerrillas in Missouri: Movements of Thornton – 4-5
Gen. A.J. Smith’s Expedition – 5-6
The Upper Potomac: Various Reports and Rumors – 6
From Missouri: Guerrilla Operations in the State – 6
The War with the Indians: Progress of Gen. Sully’s Expedition – 6-7
Equality of Negro and White Soldiers: Negroes Competent as Substitutes – 7
The Navy Department: Letter from E.N. Dickerson in Reply to the Assistant Secretary – 7-8
News from Washington – 8
Editorial: New Rebel Schemes of Disunion – 8-9
Editorial: The Return of Early’s Men – 9-10
Obituary: Brig.-Gen. William M. Averill – 10
Terrific Explosion: Two of Dupont’s Powder Mills in Ruins – 10
Local Intelligence: Reported Yellow Fever – 10
Politics – 10
The Christian Commission – 10
Fire at Fall River – 10

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