Posted on 10/11/2024 6:56:25 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
[OFFICIAL.]
FROM SECRETARY STANTON TO GEN. DIX.
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Monday, Oct. 10.
Major-Gen. Dix:
Reports have been received by this Department from Gens, BUTLER, SHERMAN, THOMAS, SHERIDAN and BURBRIDGE, showing the favorable condition of military affairs in their respective fields of operation.
The purpose of Gen. GRANT's visit to Washington having been accomplished, he returned to his headquarters on Saturday, but there has been no telegraphic communication since his arrival there.
FROM GEN THOMAS.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., 11:30 P.M., Tuesday, Oct. 4.
Have not heard direct from SHERMAN, but Gen. CORSE, at Allatoona, informs me that SHERMAN is at Kenesaw, repairing the railroad between Atlanta and Allatoona. He has plenty of provisions in Atlanta and to far as the main army is concerned, feels secure.
Gen. ROUSSEAU reports that FORREST has escaped him by crossing the Tennessee on flat boats, above and below Florence, on the 6th inst., while he (ROUSSEAU) was detained by high water in Shoal Creek and Elk River (signed)
GEO. H. THOMAS, Major-Gen.
FROM GEN. SHERMAN.
ALLATOONA, Oct. 9, 1864 -- 8 P.M.
Maj.-Gen. Halleck, Chief of Staff:
I reached the Kenesaw Mountain Oct. 6, just in time to witness at a distance the attack on Allatoona. I had anticipated this attack, and had ordered from Rome Gen. CORSE with reinforcements. The attack was met and repulsed, the enemy losing some 200 dead, and more than 1,000 wounded and prisoners. Our lose was about 700 in the aggregate. The enemy captured the small garrisons at Big Shanty and Ackworth, and burned about seven miles of our railroad; but we have at Allatoona and Atlanta an abundance of provisions. HOOD, observing our approach, has moved rapidly back to Dallas and Van Wert, and I am watching him, in case he tries to reach Kingston or Rome.
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