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The division of General Harrow captured five battle-flags.
There were about fifteen hundred or two thousand muskets captured.
One hundred and six prisoners were captured, exclusive of seventy-three wounded, who have been removed to hospitals, and are being taken care of by our surgeons.
Five hundred and sixty-five rebels, up to this time, have been buried, and about two hundred are supposed to be yet unburied.
Large numbers were undoubtedly carried away during the night, as the enemy did not withdraw until nearly daylight.
The enemy's loss could not have been, in my judgment, less than six or seven thousand.
I am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
John A. Logan, Major-General, commanding Fifteenth Army Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel W. T. Clark, Assistant Adjutant-General.
The endorsement upon the above report is as follows:
headquarters Department of the Army of the Tennessee, before Atlanta, Ga., July 29, 1864.In forwarding the within report I wish to express my high gratification with the conduct of the troops engaged. I never saw better conduct in battle. The General commanding the Fifteenth Army Corps, though ill and much worn, was indefatigable, and the success of the day is as much attributable to him as to any one man. His officers, and in fact all the officers of this army that commanded my observation, co-operated promptly and heartily with him.O. O. Howard, Major-GeneraL
General Thomas' order.
Army headquarters, July 26, 1864.
The Major-General commanding the army congratulates the troops upon the brilliant success attending the Union arms in the late battles.
In the battle of the twentieth instant, in which the Twentieth corps, one division of the Fourth corps, and part of the Fourteenth corps were engaged, the total Union loss in killed, wounded and missing was one thousand seven hundred and thirty-three.
In front of the Twentieth corps there were put out of the fight six thousand rebels; five hundred and sixty-three of the enemy were buried by our own troops, and the rebels were permitted to bury two hundred and fifty.
The Second division of the Fourth corps repulsed seven different assaults of the enemy, with light loss to themselves, and which must have swelled the number of dead buried by the rebels to beyond three hundred.
We also captured seven stands of colors.
No official report has been received of the part taken in the battle by the Fourteenth corps.
In the battle of the twenty-second instant the total Union loss in killed, wounded and missing was three thousand five hundred, and ten pieces of artillery.
The rebel loss in prisoners captured was three thousand two hundred.
The known dead of the enemy in front of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth corps and one division of the Seventeenth corps was two thousand one hundred and forty-two.
The other divisions of the Seventeenth corps repulsed six assaults of the enemy before they fell back, and which will swell the rebel loss in killed to at least three thousand.
The latest reports state that we buried over three thousand two hundred rebels killed in this fight.
There were captured from the enemy in this battle eighteen stands of colors and five thousand stands of arms.
By command of General Howard's order.
headquarters Department and Army of the Tennessee, East Point, Ga., September 9, 1864.
General Field Orders No. 10.
It is with pride, gratification and a sense of Divine favor that I congratulate this noble army upon the successful termination of the campaign.
Your officers claim for you a wonderful record — for example, a march of four hundred miles, thirteen distinct engagements, four thousand prisoners, and twenty stands of colors captured, and three thousand of the enemy's dead buried in your front.
Your movements upon the enemy's flank have been bold and successful; first upon Resaca, second, upon Dallas, third upon Kenesaw, fourth upon Nickajack, fifth, via Roswell, upon the Augusta railroad, sixth upon Ezra Church, to the south-west of Atlanta, and seventh upon Jonesboroa and the Macon railroad.
Atlanta was evacuated while you were fighting at Jonesboroa.
The country may never know with what patience, labor and exposure, you have tugged away at every natural and artificial obstacle that an enterprising and confident enemy could interpose.
The terrific battles you have fought may never be realized or credited, still a glad acclaim.
is already greeting you from the Government and people, in view of the results you have helped to gain, and I believe a sense of the magnitude of the achievements of the last hundred days will not abate, but increase with time and history.
Our rejoicing is tempered, as it always must be, by the soldier's sorrow at the loss of his companions-in-arms.
On every hillside, in every valley, throughout your long and circuitous route, from Dalton to Jonesboroa, you have buried them.
Your trusted and beloved commander fell in your midst; his name the name of McPherson carries with it a peculiar feeling of sorrow.
I trust the impress of his character is upon you General Field Orders No. 10.
