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The Daily Dispatch: May 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], Newspaper accounts from Georgia. (search)
nfederacy gives the following further particulars of the engagement at Resaca on Friday morning: It became necessary for Gen. Johnston to move his army from Dalton from the fact that the enemy concentrated his entire force on, and passed Gen. Johnston's left, making a demonstration on Resaca. At 1 o'clock P. M. Tuesdayne of the railroad and joining Hooker's corps, already there. This gap has been left open to the enemy for a number of days. It is seventeen miles southwest of Dalton, and the next gap above it, in the same ridge, is Dug Gap, which we hold, and where the enemy has made repeated assaults in vain. Dug Gap is about four miles southwest of Dalton. It will thus be seen that the enemy has transferred the bulk of his force from our right and front and pushed them seventeen miles to our rear through Snake Gap. Meanwhile, Gen. Johnston has skillfully brought up a powerful supporting force to the defence of Resaca and made a corresponding change in his li