The Daily Dispatch: August 10, 1864., [Electronic resource]

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How reserve troops fight.

--The Georgia State troops appear to be praised by every letter writer in the Army of Tennessee. The compliments they receive are well merited. Here is what a correspondent of the Griffin Rebel says of them:

‘ During the movements of which I can now give only a general outline, many collisions occurred with the enemy. In one of these the Georgia State troops, the first of Governor Brown's late levies were assailed. No body of untrained soldiers ever conducted themselves with greater courage — none have displayed a more commendable spirit. At one time, when enfiladed in their hurriedly constructed works, they maintained a position from which experienced soldiers would certainly have fled. They, on the contrary, evoked encouragement and hope from the usual prelude to disaster. They believed the enemy's line broken and that they had penetrated his centre. They fired to the right and left, and finally repulsed their assailants. They were surprised no little when ordered to withdraw. Their contempt for a cavalry brigade sent to their support, and which suddenly retreated, knows no bounds.

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