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Lowrey's position.
Hardee was on the defensive.
At night Lee's corps was ordered by General Hood to return, his dispatch stating that ‘the enemy may make an attack on Atlanta to-morrow.’
On the 1st of September Hardee's corps received repeated assaults made by Sherman's army, but he succeeded in maintaining his position and enabled General Hood to withdraw from Atlanta.
At night Hardee retired four miles to Lovejoy's Station, where the army was concentrated.
On the 1st of September Brig.-Gen. John C. Carter commanded Cheatham's division; on the 31st of August and the 1st of September Col. Geo. C. Porter commanded Maney's brigade, and Col. James D. Tillman commanded Strahl's. Brig.-Gen. George W. Gordon commanded Vaughan's, known hereafter as Gordon's, and on the 1st Col. John H. Anderson commanded Carter's brigade.
On the second day of the battle of Jonesboro, Carter drove the enemy back and retook the works in which a part of Govan's brigade of Cleburne's division had been captured.
Gordon's brigade was most exposed, and maintained the reputation acquired under the leadership of Smith and Vaughan.
The enemy, in vastly superior numbers, was held in check until night closed the battle, and Gordon covered the retreat to Lovejoy's Station.
Col. A. J. Long, Eleventh Tennessee, was mortally wounded, and Capt. J. H. Darden killed—true and faithful soldiers, said General Gordon, greatly beloved and deeply lamented.
The Third lost the gallant Col. Calvin J. Clack, promoted to the command of the regiment after the fall of Colonel Walker near Marietta.
The veteran Tenth mourned the loss of Col. William Grace, mortally wounded, who in his last hours gave expression to a single regret, that he could no longer serve the cause he loved so well.
The chaplain of his regiment, Father Blieml, was killed while administering the sacrament of extreme unction to the dying on the field.
Tyler's brigade was hurled against the intrenched position
Atlanta, Ga. 1899.
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