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The Twelfth Louisiana, at the battle of the 20th of July, lost II killed, 57 wounded, and 4 missing, out of 318 engaged.
Capt. J. A. Bivin and Lieut. M. S. McLeroy were killed in front of the line.
Maj. H. V. McCain was wounded.
Lieut.-Col. T. C. Standifer and Sergt.-Maj. H. Brunner were honorably mentioned.
After the evacuation of Atlanta Hood designed a campaign to lure Sherman from Atlanta, cut his communications and force a battle further north.
On September 25th President Davis arrived at headquarters, and on the next day, after a serenade by the Twentieth Louisiana band, he addressed the soldiers.
Three days later the army began its movement northward.
In the most serious engagement which followed, that at Allatoona, the Pointe Coupee artillery took part.
Slocomb's battery, under Chalaron, did effective work at Dalton.
Hood, closely pursued by Sherman, fell back into Alabama, and Sherman returned to Atlanta, burned the city, and set out for Savannah.
Atlanta, Ga. 1899.
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