GEN. SHERMAN’S ARMY: HOOD TRYING TO ESCAPE; SHERMAN PRESSING HIM CLOSELY (10/19/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 10/19/1864

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[OFFICIAL.]

WAR DEPARTMENT, Oct. 18, 1864.

Maj.-Gen. Dix:

The following dispatch has been received:

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Oct. 17, 1864 -- 3 P.M.

HOOD's main force was about Lafayette last night, and SHERMAN at Ship's Gap.

The report of yesterday that HOOD was approaching Carpenter's Ferry was a mistake. He had not crossed Lookout Mountain last night.

J.M. SCHOFIELD, Maj.-Gen.

Another official dispatch, dated at Chattanooga, is as follows:

I left Gen. SHERMAN at Ship Gap, in Taylor's Ridge, at dark last night. The General and army are all right and in the best of spirits. HOOD won't fight, though offered repeatedly. His dreadful repulse at Allatoona has made him very cautious.

Gen. SLOCUM is all right at Atlanta, with plenty of provisions and forage.

HOOD's raid has produced no military result as yet.

If he wants to invade Tennessee as he has promised his men, he will lose by desertion twice as many as he has captured.

The losses in men thus far, have been in our favor.

HOOD demanded, over his own signature, the surrender of Reseca and Dalton, and said that if surrendered, the white officers and men would be paroled in a few days, but that it the post was carried by assault "no prisoners would be taken."

Rome is all right. C.A. DANA,

Acting Secretary of War.

SECOND DISPATCH.

[OFFICIAL.]

WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHIHGTON, D.C. Oct. 18, 1864, 9 P.M.

To Maj.-Gen. Dix, New-York:

The subjoined dispatches have reached the Department this afternoon:

NASHVILLE, Tenn., 4 P.M., Monday, Oct. 17, 1864.

The following dispatch has been received from Gen. SHERMAN:

SHIP's GAP, 5 P.M., Sunday, Oct. 16, 1864.

We took Ship's Gap to-day, capturing a part of the Twenty-fourth North Carolina. Two corps are represented to be at Lafayette, and one went south from Villanova Plain.

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From Florida: Gen. Asboth’s Expedition – 3
From Newbern-No Abatement of the Yellow Fever – 3
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Southern News: How a Convention is Regarded – 4
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