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The Daily Dispatch: May 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], Hurdle of Confederate soldiers by negro troops. (search)
From North Georgia. Atlanta, May 25.
--Westward and casts ward to Columbus the homeless people of Northern Georgia are crowding into this city, to await the issue of the pending struggle between our army and the Federal.
The relief committee here are pouring out everything that can be obtained for their sustenance, and call now to the people of Georgia, Alabama, and South Caroline, to aid and help them.
Immediate, instant help is needed in clothing for women and children, bacon, salt meats, fish, meal, and corn.
These things can be delivered to the agent of the Express Company, addressed to J. W. Duncan, President of the Relief Committee, Atlanta.
They also need information as to where any number of destitute families can find shelter and food.
Will the press please publish these and aid in the maiter?
Two press reporters came from the army this evening.
Their intelligence is mostly of a character which prudence requires should be withheld from publication.
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The fighting in Georgia.
The Atlanta Appeal, of the 20th, has the following late intelligence from the fighting in Georgia.
The last account received from the front by train was on Thursday morning. Our army was in line between Case Station and Kingston.
Both armies were within two miles of each other Thursday and it was reported were advancing.
The reported capture of twenty two hundred Yankees by General Cleburne turns out to be untrue.
There was no fighting during Thursday.
The Federal soldiers have insulted and outraged the residents of the section of the country they have marched through.
In the charge of Stewart's division on Sunday evening beyond Resaca a Presbyterian minister, the Rev. Mr. McMullen, Missionary to Raker's brigade, an old gentleman upwards of sixty-five years of age, gallantly went in front of the whole line, amid a perfect tornado of bullets and shells.
The patriotic veteran, with his white hair streaming in the wind waved the b
The Daily Dispatch: May 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], The facts about the capture of Fort Pillow . (search)
The facts about the capture of Fort Pillow.
A correspondent of he Atlanta Appeal gives the, paper the following correct history of the facts connected with the capture of Fort Pillow.
It gives the he to the Yankee stories of "brutal massacre," &c., which have been endorsed by a Federal Congressional investigating committee:
Gen. Forrest determined, with that quickness and correctness of decision peculiar to himself, to jake the fort.
He had on the ground not more then 1200 men. The horses were all more than a mile in the tear, and the consisted of only four small and inferior mountain howitzers.
When the order to attack was announced, the line officers and men, for a moment stood appalled at its apparent audacity; but as the towering form, blazing eye, and the clarion voice of the fearless leader was seen and heard along the line "move up, move up," the inspiration flashed through the men with electric speed, and nobly did they respond to the call of their daring ch