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The Daily Dispatch: September 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], Arrival of the flag of truce with sick and wounded prisoners. (search)
Warriors in chariots. --We heard a little incident related in reference to the Alabama militia the other day, which shows the laxity of military discipline about Opelika. A captain of a cavalry company reported about ninety men for duty every morning, and on an occasion of parade, the colonel asked him why he did not parade more than twenty-six men. "The fact is," says the captain, "there are about seventy of my men who have reported here in buggies, and there are only this number properly equipped." We suppose these mulish have read of the style of the ancients who went to war in chariots, and are only imitating the ancients as nearly as they can.--La Grange Bulletin.
The Daily Dispatch: October 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], Interesting from Georgia. (search)
e corps to hold Atlanta, and that the residue of his army will not be a match for ours. Our cavalry had captured a train of thirty cars near Ackworth, on the 2d instant, loaded with supplies — coffee, five hundred barrels crackers, etc. On the 3d, they captured a train of cars loaded with beef cattle, which were burnt. -- These licks, together with those struck by Forrest, will soon have the desired effect in moving Sherman from Atlanta. General Beauregard and staff passed through Opelika on Friday, on his way to the Tennessee army to assume the command, and be will personally direct the movements and operations of the army until the fall campaign shall have been fully ceased. The situation on both sides is critical; but if Hood can keep up his supplies, Sherman must evacuate Georgia in no great length of time. The Appoints Grenada correspondent the President sent General Forrest fifteen hundred fine English carbines last week, for his men, as an appreciation of
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