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The Daily Dispatch: June 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], Grant 's campaign an acknowledged failure. (search)
The fall of Lieut. Gen. Polk.
The Atlanta Confederacy has an interesting account of the fall of Lieut. Gen. (Bishop) Polk.
It appears that Gen. Polk, with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, Lieut. Gen. Hardee and Gen. Jackson, of the cavalry, accompanied by their respective staffs, had ridden out on the morning of the 14th inst to Pine Mountain to survey the positions.
They reached that elevation, which is in the neighborhood of Gen. Bate's line, some five or six miles in front of Marietta, about 11 o'clock, A. M. The Confederacy says:
The party were dismounted, and all their horses were left below the crown of the knoll.
Some one had suggested that so large a group of officers at so exposed a point might attract the fire of the enemy.
The suggestion had scarcely been offered before a shell from one of the enemy's batteries, recently planted, about nine hundred yards distant, passed very near them.
The group then began to disperse in different directions.
General Johnston and