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The Daily Dispatch: September 2, 1864., [Electronic resource], The railroad raid in Sherman 's rear. (search)
The railroad raid in Sherman's rear.
Our advices from Georgia would indicate that General Wheeler has made a decided impression on the roads in Sherman's rear.
The blowing up of the tunnel at Tunnel Hill, near Dalton — which was the most irreparable damage he could have effect — seems to have been done.
A clergyman, who was at Rome, Georgia, under sentence of exile to the North, could not go in consequence of the road above there being destroyed; and upon applying to the Yankee general n, Ohio, recently, and sent forward to Chattanooga--one of them in irons; that they left Chattanooga on Monday last, with five train loads of troops for Sherman's front, and that the whole body of reinforcements passed through without hearing of Wheeler or being detained by any break in the road.
They also said they were not assigned to any command until they reached the front, as was the case with many of those who came down with them.
They made no complaints of the subsistence furnished the