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The Daily Dispatch: October 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], Interesting from Georgia. (search)
Interesting from Georgia. The Georgia papers bring us some intelligence from the two armies confronting each other in that State: When Sherman heard that Hood had left his front and gone northward, he crossed the river with two corps and formed a line of observation at Vining's station. Hood's line crossed the railroad at Big Shanty. On the 3d and 4th, the two armies held this relation to each other without firing a gun. On the 5th, Sherman withdrew and returned to Atlanta. The enemy thus disposed of, our army set to work with axe and spade. It pretty effectually administered upon the State road. From Big Shanty to the Ocstenaula the scene is one dismal wreck. Those deep cavities among the Etowah hills have been filled up by heavy timber, earth and stone. The mode of procedure is thus described by our correspondent: Whilst one detail is engaged in tearing up the truck and burning the cross-ties, a second occupies itself with hewing heavy loge for the purpose of ch