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The Daily Dispatch: August 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
a relates chiefly to the operations of a raiding party, under Kilpatrick's, sent out by Sherman to destroy our railway communications. There is a wide discrepancy between the two dispatches, the first estimating the raiding force at twenty-five to thirty thousand, and the second at two thousand five hundred. The latter is, doubtless, nearest the mark. Fairburn, the point at which they met with some success, is on the Atlanta and West Point railroad, nineteen miles from the former place. Lovejoy's, on the Macon railroad, is twenty- nine miles, and Jonesboro' twenty-two miles from Atlanta. Between these two points the raiders seem to have been routed and driven off, though from the small number of killed and wounded on either side, we infer that the fighting was not very desperate. Late Northern papers inform us that Sherman considers it of the highest importance to gain a foothold on the Macon railroad, as by that means, it is added, the investment of Atalanta would be complete.
The Daily Dispatch: August 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], We are (search)
orts from the enemy's rear to the effect that Wheeler had burned the bridges at Etowah and Resaca and Dalton, between the up tunnel.--[The enemy, then, is undoubtedly on half ration.] [Second Dispatch.] Atlanta, August 22. --Kilpatrick's raid, composed of twenty-five hundred men, crossed the Chattahoochee at Campbelton and struck the road at Fairburn at 3 o'clock on Friday morning, destroying it for six miles. The raiders then crossed over to the Macon road, striking the road at Lovejoy's on Friday evening, and moving towards Jonesboro'. The Federal infantry support which accompanied Kilpatrick's cavalry to West Point returned, and the cavalry proceeded along towards the Macon road. Ross's brigade skirmished with Kilpatrick's advance, but was unable to hold the enemy in cheek. The raiders burned the depot and post-office at Jonesboro', destroying all the papers. Saturday evening the enemy were surrounded, between Love joy's and Jonesboro', by Reynold's infantry brig