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The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1864., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], General Hood Increases his army. (search)
General Hood Increases his army. --The Atlanta correspondent of the Columbus Enquirer says that General Hood is rapidly increasing the fighting men of his army: General Hood is putting guns into the hands of every available man connected with the army. --All of the cooks have been armed and returned to their respective commands, and the negroes connected with the army have been employed in that capacity. Quartermasters and commissaries have been made to disgorge the many superfluous men in their departments; surgeons also. The result is that the army has received a considerable reinforcement. In Clayton's division alone the number of new men returned from the cooking detachments reached three hundred, which at this time is considered a good regiment. The increase from the cooks alone will reach four thousand effective men. But General Hood does not stop here. He has ordered the arming of every artillerist except from No. 1 to 6, who are absolutely necessary to ha