Posted on 10/08/2024 7:03:10 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
[OFFICIAL.]
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON.
FRIDAY, Oct. 7, 1864.
Major-Gen. John A. Dix:
In a recent dispatch, it was mentioned that Gen. SHERMAN was taking measures to protect his communications from the rebel forces operating against them. Dispatches received last night show the fulfilment of this expectation.
Major-Gen. GIO. H. THOMAS was sent to Louisville to organize the troops in his district, and drive FORREST from our lines, while the attention of Gen. SHERMAN was directed to the movements of the main rebel army in the vicinity of Atlanta.
On the 4th of October the rebels had captured Big Shanty, but were followed closely up by SHERMAN, on the 6th. A severe engagement was fought by our forces under Gen. FRENCH, in which the rebels were driven from the field with heavy loss, leaving their dead and wounded in our hands.
Details are given in the following dispatches from Gen. THOMAS:
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Thursday, Oct. 6 -- 11:30 P.M. Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War:
The following telegram is just received from Chattanooga:
Gen. SMITH, who left here yesterday, 5th inst., telegraphs that the enemy retreated last evening from Allatoona, moving in the direction of Dallas, leaving his dead and four to six hundred wounded in our hands. Our loss was about one hundred killed and two hundred wounded.
The Resaca bridge will be repaired by to-morrow, and the trains will be able to run as far as Allatoona, going via Cleveland and Dalton. Nothing further has been heard from SHERMAN since my dispatch of yesterday; but the retreat of the enemy toward Dallas indicates that he was close on their rear near Allatoona. I have not heard from Gens. ROUSSEAU or WASHBURNE to-day, but presume that they are pushing FORREST as rapidly as the condition of the roads
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