Our latest
Georgia exchanges give us some intelligence of military affairs in that State.
No movements seem to have been made recently.
We take some items from them:
It has been rumored that
General French's division was cut off from the main body of the army above
Acworth, on Friday, and forced to cut its way out, with a loss of six hundred.
That the division was engaged with the enemy we are assured, but are inclined to doubt the truth of the statement which has passed current.
General Beauregard was at
Talladega on Saturday,
en route for
General Hood's headquarters, accompanied by
Governor Harris, of
Tennessee.
A party just out from
Atlanta — at least he left that city on the 28th ultimo--reports that the impression seemed to prevail in military circles that
Hood's flank movement consisted of only a portion of our main army, and that the larger portion was still between
Atlanta and
Macon, under
Beauregard.
This may account for their apparent apathy concerning
Hood's movement; thinking, perhaps, they could send out and "gobble him" up whenever it suited them.
Major-General Bate, of
Tennessee, who was severely wounded before
Atlanta, passed through here to-day,
en route to take charge of his old command, which has temporarily been under the command of
General John C. Brown.
Hardee's corps crossed the
Chattahoochee at Grave's ferry, and are now far advanced.
As the army moves on it increases in strength.
Men who straggled when the army retreated to
Atlanta, and who were left in the enemy's lines, are now coming back to their comrades, rallying around the banner they have followed on many a field, whilst deserters, too are returning to their post.
Hardee's corps alone has received an accession of two thousand nine hundred men.
The
Macon papers contain the subjoined items:
I had a long conversation with a gentleman this morning just from the Army of Tennessee.
He represents things as being all right about the army; that we have possession of the
State road from Big Shanty to
Altoona; that we have utterly destroyed this road for fifteen miles, filling up the cuts with stick and dirt and brush, and spading down the hills, so that
Sherman could not mend the road in fifteen days if he had possession of it. He represents the army as being in the finest of spirits, and increasing in numbers daily at the rate of from five hundred to a thousand.
The soldiers say they will be content with a handful of corn a day if
General Hood will only keep them going forward, and that they will whip
Sherman if he dares to attack them.
Three hundred and seventy Yankee prisoners, captured on the 3d and 1st instants upon the railroad at Big Shanty and
Acworth, arrived at
Newman to-day.
They belong to the Seventeenth corps, (
Blair's) and had never been to
Atlanta.
They comprise men from
Ohio,
Illinois and
Missouri, and are, generally speaking, fine looking soldiers.
General Beauregard, in
Milledgeville, was the guest of
Governor Brown.
He doubtless went there on business relative to the militia.
A number of citizens, with torch lights, proceeded to the
Executive Mansion and called for
General Beauregard.
He appeared upon the portico of the mansion, and was introduced to the crowd by
Governor Brown as the general who fought the first battle of the war, and a general who never lost one; where upon
General Beauregard, in true military style, made the
Governor a bow for the compliment.
He then gave his visitors a short talk.
