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The Daily Dispatch: March 30, 1864., [Electronic resource], The battle of Stoneside Mountain — gallant conduct of the Virginians and North Carolinians. (search)
The battle of Stoneside Mountain — gallant conduct of the Virginians and North Carolinians. [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch] In Camp, Near Dalton, Ga, March 21st, 1864. The advance of Thomas upon this point, under the erroneous impression that General Johnston's force had been greatly depleted to reinforce Polk, afforded opportunities for the exhibition of heroic resistance to his impetuous onsets, and for the infliction of severe punishment upon the enemy which so uniformly characterizes the conduct of our troops upon similar occasions. But for the determined valor and tremendous effort which our troops opposed to the advance of Thomas on the 25th of February, what was intended as an easy march to Atlanta would have resulted in a general engagement, which was not as desirable then as it would have been a few days afterwards, or would be now, against a similar force. It is not my purpose to give a general account of what was really a battle, though only looked upon