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The Daily Dispatch: August 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Northern Presidential campaign — the War. (search)
eight thousand men and sixteen pieces of artillery, was detailed for the work. Of course, this body of men divided into small parties, numbering from three thousand down to five hundred. The line to Charleston was cut by Stoneman first at Covington, fifty miles from Atlanta, and he then went straight south to the line to Savannah, which he struck at Gordon, one hundred and thirty miles from Atlanta by railroad, but not more than half of that by stage roads. He then went thirty miles below Gordon, on the same road, and destroyed quite an important bridge over the Oconee river. This constituted his individual portion of the work; and having finished it, he started for Macon, which was named as a rendezvous for all the raiders, but was captured, with five hundred of his men. The party he sent to Oconee bridge was not three hundred strong, and a very small bridge guard might have repulsed it. After Stoneman's capture the idea of making Macon a rendezvous was given up, and the raiders c
The Daily Dispatch: August 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Northern Presidential campaign — the War. (search)
ith was supposed to be attempting to cross to the east side of the Mississippi, but at what point was either not known, or is not mentioned. Marmaduke, however, was crossing his men, in small squads, in the neighborhood of James's Landing. On the 10th ultimo, Shelby, who, with his command, was at Scarcy, between Little Rock and Batesville, captured one hundred and eighty of the Tenth Illinois cavalry. General Carr was in command of the Federal troops at Little Rock, whilst Generals Lee and Gordon, from Louisiana, were at the mouth of White river with reinforcements for General Stecle. Comments of the New York Press on the battle of Petersburg. [from the New York Times.] The attempt on the lines of Petersburg on Saturday did not result in a success. It was an effort whose success or failure must occur at once, and must at once be apparent. It was of the nature of a coup de main, or a sudden effort or enterprise, which, though it might embrace many parts and much laboriou