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The Daily Dispatch: August 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ad indulged rather too freely in old Bourbon on Sunday and became vindictive under its effects. From Georgia. The news from Atlanta relates chiefly to the operations of a raiding party, under Kilpatrick's, sent out by Sherman to destroy our railway communications. There is a wide discrepancy between the two dispatches, the first estimating the raiding force at twenty-five to thirty thousand, and the second at two thousand five hundred. The latter is, doubtless, nearest the mark. Fairburn, the point at which they met with some success, is on the Atlanta and West Point railroad, nineteen miles from the former place. Lovejoy's, on the Macon railroad, is twenty- nine miles, and Jonesboro' twenty-two miles from Atlanta. Between these two points the raiders seem to have been routed and driven off, though from the small number of killed and wounded on either side, we infer that the fighting was not very desperate. Late Northern papers inform us that Sherman considers it of the
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rson, of the Fourteenth Texas cavalry. Two children and several ladies were wounded. No further damage was done. Kilpatrick is moving after Wheeler. As is supposed, he turned towards the Atlanta and West Point railroad, which he struck at Fairburn, where, having cut the road and telegraph, he has gone in the direction of the Macon road, and, it is supposed, thence to Andersonville, for the purpose of releasing the prisoners. His force is estimated at from twenty-five to thirty thousand. between the up tunnel.--[The enemy, then, is undoubtedly on half ration.] [Second Dispatch.] Atlanta, August 22. --Kilpatrick's raid, composed of twenty-five hundred men, crossed the Chattahoochee at Campbelton and struck the road at Fairburn at 3 o'clock on Friday morning, destroying it for six miles. The raiders then crossed over to the Macon road, striking the road at Lovejoy's on Friday evening, and moving towards Jonesboro'. The Federal infantry support which accompanied Kilpatr