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ge was done. Kilpatrick is moving after Wheeler. As is supposed, he turned towards the Atlanta and West Point railroad, which he struck at Fairburn, where, having cut the road and telegraph, he has gone in the direction of the Macon road, and, it is supposed, thence to Andersonville, for the purpose of releasing the prisoners. His force is estimated at from twenty-five to thirty thousand. There are reports from the enemy's rear to the effect that Wheeler had burned the bridges at Etowah and Resaca and Dalton, between the up tunnel.--[The enemy, then, is undoubtedly on half ration.] [Second Dispatch.] Atlanta, August 22. --Kilpatrick's raid, composed of twenty-five hundred men, crossed the Chattahoochee at Campbelton and struck the road at Fairburn at 3 o'clock on Friday morning, destroying it for six miles. The raiders then crossed over to the Macon road, striking the road at Lovejoy's on Friday evening, and moving towards Jonesboro'. The Federal infantry suppor