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rrespondent thinks, was expected. This device, however, did not seem to deceive Hood, who also massed troops where the assault was to have been delivered, and pounced on Logan before he got into position, whipping him and going back to his works. After this disaster, the Yankees determined not to make the proposed assault. There is a good deal of wrangling about whose fault it is that Logan was whipped. The other corps commanders are accused of not getting up in time to support him. General Sweeney was removed from his command, and General Jefferson C. Davis is to be court-martialed. Logan declares that he lost only 1,500 men, which was as little as he could possibly have gotten off with under the circumstances. The correspondent winds up with the usual consolation, that "the loss of the rebels was nearly equal to ours." These disasters in front, and the inability to flank Hood, seem to have opened the eyes of the Yankees. The correspondent says: To tell the truth, we are