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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 14: Sherman's campaign in Georgia. (search)
hments. Hooker's corps. being uncovered, and on mostly open ground, suffered most severely. The entire National loss in the combat was fifteen hundred men. Sherman estimated Hood's entire loss at not less than five thousand men. He left five. hundred dead on the field, one thousand severely wounded, many prisoners, and several battle-flags. The 21st was spent by Sherman in reconnoitering the Confederate intrenched position on the south side of Peachtree Creek, during which Brigadier-General L. Greathouse (formerly Colonel of the Forty-Eighth Illinois); was killed. On the following morning it was found that the Confederates had abandoned those heights, and Sherman supposed that movement to be preliminary to the evacuation of Atlanta. With that impression, the troops pressed eagerly toward the town in lines forming a narrowing semicircle, when, at an average distance. of two miles from the Court-House they were confronted by an inner line of intrenchments, much stronger than th