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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: August 17, 1864., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Atlanta (Georgia, United States) or search for Atlanta (Georgia, United States) in all documents.
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The "Siege" of Atlanta.
The Atlanta correspondent of the Columbia Carolinian, "Personnel, " gives the following intelligible summary of the operations near there the ten days preceding the 5th instant:
I will pass over the raids of Stoneman and McCook, both of which have, fortunately, come to grief, with their commandsAtlanta correspondent of the Columbia Carolinian, "Personnel, " gives the following intelligible summary of the operations near there the ten days preceding the 5th instant:
I will pass over the raids of Stoneman and McCook, both of which have, fortunately, come to grief, with their commands broken up and scattered, and their principal leader safely housed within the hospitable gates of Camp Oglethorpe, where I saw him a few days since, looking the personation of object misery and despair.
He was formerly General Hood's captain in the Second United States cavalry, and afterwards served upon the staff of General Hood n Anderson, lately in command it. Florida, of Hindman's division, he being still absent on account of injuries received by a fall from his horse.
The city of Atlanta reminds one very much of Goldsmith's "Deserted Village," although many families have been compelled to remain here despite the danger from the missiles which the
Casualties.
To the Editor of the Richmond Dispatch:
Below I give a list of the casualties of Jeffress Battery, Nottoway county, Virginia, in the late battles around Atlanta, which you will publish for the information of the friends of these who were killed and wounded:
Killed--Privates James Van Dyke, Albert A. Sheffield, W. W. Rivers and John Higginbotham.
Wounded severely--Lieutenant A. W. Robertson, in the right leg (amputated above the knee). Privates E. S. Redwine, in right thigh: Thomas Saunders, left leg, below the knee; Zachariah Elliott, right leg, above the knee; Edward A Snellings, both legs, below the knee, (both legs amputated); James M. Herndon, through the body; (since died): J. W. Barrow, shot through the body; A. M. Barrow, shot through the body; James.
M. Mathews, in right thigh.
Wounded slightly--Lieutenant E. W. Jones, in the neck; Privates F. D. Hawkes, in right arm; Green B. Robertson, head, face and shoulder; Henry Rooney, in right
A few days
after General Hood assumed the command of the Army of Tennessee, he, with his staff, visited all the hospitals at Atlanta, and the result of his strict inspection was a return of fifteen hundred men to the front.