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Adj’t A Inspector Oknebal’s Offick. #
Macon, (4a.. August 1,1864. )
Special Order,)
No. —. i
As there is a misapprehension about the powers
of the Inferior Courts in making details for police
duty, the following orders are publish***! for the in
formation of all concerned :
One policeman is allowed for each 500 negroes in
each county.
All men between 55 and 60, able to ride and carry
a gun, are to act as a police force in their respec
tive counties. The Aida dc Gamp nro specially in
structed to order them upon this duty, and any man
between these ages, able for service, who refuses,
will be sent to the front. They are to ride all
through the county, confining themselves to no par
ticular district or plantation, and aie to give their
whole time to this business. As they can sleep in
houses at night, they can do this duty, when they
would not be fit for other military service. They
will visit the plantations, correct insubordinate ne
groes. and do all in their power to protect property
and preserve order.
It is believed there are but few cflhpties in the
State, in which there are not in the county, one man
able for service for each 500 negroes. If there
should not be that number in any county, the Inf ' - j
rior Court will recommend foridetail a number of
men subject to the late call sufficient to make up the
deficiency. These should bo selected from such
overseers and others as have most control over the
negroes. The recommendation * of the eourts must
be sent to those headquarters, where they will bo
allowed, if the evidence of deficiency in the num
ber of old men is satisfactory.
The court must accompany the application for
the detail by a certificate, giving the following
facts:
Ist. The number of slaves in the county.
2d. The number and names of the old men be
tween 55 and 60 in the county, with the namo of
each, who is too feeble through the county.
3d. The names of the persons recommended by
the courts to make up the deficiency if any. All
details granted by tho courts without an order from
these headquarters, are valid, and will be so treated
by all Aids-de-Camp and other State officers, who
will send all such detailed men to the front imrae-. j
diatoly. -
As the late interruption in the railroad transpor
tation may have caused some of the militia who
had started to Macon to return home for want of
transportation, all such are required to press for
ward to Macon without delay, as the channels of
communication will be open again in a day or two.
All officers at home will exercise great energy in
sending all men subject to the call forward prompt
ly, under arrest when necessary.
HENRY C. WAYNE,
augl 2t Adj’t & Insp. Gen.
Hr ipquarters Georgia Reserve, )
Macon, Gn., July 23, 1864. i
ft filer al Orders, l
No. 13. J
I. All questions of details from the Reserve for j
agricultural purposes, on the part of those persons j
having less than fifteen able-bodied field hands, I
having been placed under the control and direction
of the Commanding Officer of the Reserve Force, i
it is ordered that the details heretofore granted by j
the Commandant of Conscripts in this State, shall
stand until otherwise ordered from these Head- (
quarters.
11. The Commandant of Conscripts will cause a
full an accurate report to be made to these Head
quarters, of all persons of this class who have been
thus detailed, stating the residonco and age of each
person detailed, and the grounds upon which such
details have been made; and they will bo immedi
ately assigned to companies in the Reserve Force,
and be subject to be ordered to the companies to
which they may be thus assigned, whenever their
details may be suspended or annulled.
HI. Enrolling Officers will continue to send for
ward all persons liable to duty in the Reserve Corps j
under tho orders and directions heretofore issued
to them by the Commandant of Conscripts, cx- I
cept as these orders and directions may be modi
fied or changed by orders from these Headquar
ters.
IV. County Enrolling Officers will send all such
persons tc the District Enrolling Officers, who will
send them to the Camp of Instruction at this place,
where the officer in charge will report daily their
arrival to theso Headquarters, that they may be
promptly assigned and sent forward to their respec
tive companies.
V. In the case of persons of the Reserve Class
applying for exemption under the third paragraph
and first clause of tho fourth paragraph of Section
Tenth, of tho act of Congress, entitled “.An Act to
organize forces to serve during tho war,” approved
February 17th, 1861,’ the application will be for
warded to the Commandant of Conscripts, and the
same privilege will be extended to applicants as
heretofore allowed.
VI. In all cases arising under the second clause j
Paragraph Fourth, commencing with these words, ;
“In addition to the foregoing exemptions,” Ac., the
applicant will bo sent forward us provided In the
Fourth Paragraph of this Order, and no furlough
will be allowed, and his application will as soon as
practicable be forwarded to these Headquarters for
decision. Enrolling Officers will make in such cases
investigations as heretofore, and wi'l as soon as
practicable be forwarded to these Headquarters lor,
decision. Enrolling Officers will make in such cases
investigations as heretofore, and wi I forward the
papers to theso Headquarters, with the application
for detail.
VII. All applications for details from the Reserve
Force for Government works, or any other purpose
must be made to these Headquarters.
Rv command of
MAJ. GEN. HOWELL COBB,
Commanding Goorgia Reserve.
Lauaji Cobb, Major and A. A. G.
iul 29 fti
GEORGlA—Muscogee County,
WHEREAS, Mrs. Mary V. Davis, adm’x of Dr.
George S. Davis, dee’d has filed her petition lor
leave to sell a negro woman by the name of Maria,
about 25 years of age and her four children.
All persons concerned are hereby notifiecUto sjiow
cause, (if any they have) why an order should not
be granted at the next September Term of tho Court
of Ordinary for said county, authorizing tho sale of
mid negro.
Given under my hand, July Ist. fit.
.TNG. JOHNSON.
iy t 2m Ordinary.
Martha A, Taylor) Libel for Divorce iu Marion
vs [-Superior Oourt. Returnable to
Green B. Taylor. ) September Term, 1864.
At Columbus, April 2d, 1864.
IT appearing to the Court by the return of the Sher
iff. that the defendant is not to bo found in the
county, and it further appearing to the Court by
other evidence that the deloudent does not reside
in the State. . _ .
It is therefore ordered by the Court that service
be perfected on tho defendant by publication of this
order once a month for four months, before the
next term of the Court, in some newspaper of this
State.
EDMOND 11. WORRILL, J. S. C. C. C.
A true extract from the minutes, this April sth.
1864. GEO. W. AfcDfFFIE,
apl 7 m4m Clerk.
TO HIRE !
UOlv the balance of the year fifteen able-bodied
F Negro Men and seventeen Negro Women.
Apply soon to R. M. GUNBY. Ag’t.
iul 2S ts
Aoticf to Debtors and Cred
itor*.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of .Seaborn
Jones, deceased, are required to make imme
diate payment, and those having claims against said
estate are required to render them m terms ot the
law to the undersigned. , , ,
SEABORN J. BENNING, Adm r.
Bj MARY H. BENNING, Agent.
jul23 wfit
ROOMS TO RENT!
TWO comfortable and well furnished rooms to rent
Ito some ordo:ly and respectable person or per
sons in a private house, iu the northern part of the
city. Apply tr. MRS. DAVID,
aug4 It* Upper end Oglethorpe st.
' '
Vol. XL
J. W. WARREN A CO. Proprietors J. W. WARREN, £<litor
Notice
All Officers or Men registered as patients in
this hospital in private quarters will report Imme
diately is Person, or they will be reported to
lheir commands as deserters.
W. A. ROBERTSON.
jul29 d3t Surg. in charge Lee Hospital. m
Headquarters Conscript Service, 1
Augusta. July 25,1864. )
General Order*, \
No. 42. /
The following extract from Circular, No. 24, Bu
reau of Cfou3orir cion, (current series,) i3 published
for the information and guidance of all concerned :
11. The sale to the Government or to the families
of soldiers, at prices fixed by the Commissioners of
the State, under the Impressment Act, of the mar
ketable surplus remaining after furnishing the Gov
ernment with the stipulated quantity of provisions,
and which he may raise from year to year, while his
exemption continues, is made by the act of Con
gress, approved February 17th, 1864, one of the
conditions of exemption allowed to an overseer or
agriculturalist. A claim is asserted by some of
those exempted as agriculturalists to exchange such
part of tho aforesaid surplus as they may please, for
supplies of provisions, clothing, and the like, to be
consumed in family use, and to sell to the Govern
ment or to the families of soldiers only what re
mains of such surplus after making said exchanges.
Tho claim is in violatian of the law and of their
contract with the Government, and cannot be al
lowed.
Upon satisfactory evidence being furnished that
persons exempted as overseers or agriculturalists
have or are thus disposing of their surplus produc
tions by exchange as aforesaid, Enrolling Officers
will arrest all such persons, forward them to their
nearest camp of Instruction, to be retained there
until final action shall be taken and announced in
their cases, and forward through the proper chan
nels of communication to this Bureau a report of
all the facts and circumstances of each case.
Every agriculturalist or overseer, upon receiving
his certificate of exemption, should be informed
that the action indicated above will be taken in the
event of his not disposing of his marketable sup
plies in accordance with the requirements of the
law.”
By order of
Col. WM. M. BROWNE,
Commandant.
P. Looney, Lt. and Adj't.
jul2B 5t
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THE
mtummsm.
The undersigned proprietor of the ATLANTA
Daily and. Weekly Intelligencer^
announces to the public that he has made arrange
j ments for the publication of these Journals in this
■ city (Macon) and that in a few days subscribers to
I the same will be furnished as usual with their pa
pers :
i Correspondents, advertisers and all persons bav
! inj? business with the
| X3STTELT_,XC3-EliTO EB
• will pleasse address their communications to
TUc Intelligencer Office.
Macou, Georgia.
All JOB and GOVERNMENT WORK
on hand will be resumed at an early day.
JARED I. WHITAKER,
Proprietor
jul27 It
Flag of Truce Letters
Confederate States of America,)
War Department. >
Bureau of Exchange. )
Richmond, Va., July Ist, 1864.
1. All letters to go North by flag of fnee must be
sent to this office.
2. Each letter must be inclosed in a separate en
velope and addressed to me. Bureau of Exchange,
Richmond, Va.
3. No letter must exceed in length one page of
ordinary sized letter paper, and its contents be con
fined strictly to personal or family matters. No
letter alluding to the movements or localities of
troops will be allowed to pass.
4. Each letter must contain a United States post
age stamp, or its equivalent in silver or United
States currency. These regulations will be rigidly
enforced, and no letter transmitted iu which they
are not strictly observed.
ROBT OULD,
Agent of Exchange
[Official,
W H Hatch. Captain aad A A <4.
juiy226t
Shoemaker*- and Saddlers’
r PHK UNDERSIGNED having commenced the
*■ manufacture of the above named articles in this
city, are prepared to fill orders for the same.
Office on Angle street, a few doors above C. S.
Hospital. HARRISON, BEDELL & CO.
Reference— Maj. F. W. Dillard.
Mobile Register, Mississippian and Augusta Con
stitutionalist. please copy one month and «md bills
to this office,
mar 30 ts
ON and after the Ist July, my office and dwell
ing will be on Broad st., at the residence of the
la juhritf toCS ' W. J. MUR&HLL. * 9
Columbus, Oa Monday Morning, August 8,1864.
HEW GOODS!! HEW GOODS!!!
.A.T
Mra. DESSAU’S.
FROM THE LATE BLOCKADE SALE AT
A.U£iista, Ga.
The good> arc all superior to what is
offered elsewhere, and will be sold lower
thau lately. In thg assortment can be
found :
Ladies’ Aevv fiats.
-Vevj Bonnet Ribbon*.
3¥ew licit*. ,
Bobinet Musquito Setting.
Tuchingand Dressing Combs,
Ladies’ llosery,
Three y’ds wide Linen Sheeting.
Superior Bleached Shirting.
Printed Jackonets.
Ginghams,
English and French Calicoes, '
Bombazine, Alpacas,
Elegant Leroes,
O.A EE .A.3STE SEE.
je 21 ts
Medical Card.
dr. e. aTrossi .
FORMERLY Surgeon to the New Orleans "Fe
x male Infirmary,” tenders his services to the Cit
izens of Columbus in all the branches of his profes
sion.
Special attention will be devotedlto the treatment
of the diseases of womem.
Surgical operations performed for
Fistula in Ano, Visico-Vaginal fistula,
Hydrocele, Congenital and Accidental Phymosis,
Varicocele, Heemorrhoids or Piles, Callous Impas
sable strictures, False Passages, Tallapes or Club
Foot, and contraction of the fingers. Strabismus or
Squinting, Aneurism, Varix or dilated veins, Ptery
gium, Cataract and Hair Lip; also for the remov
al of all tumors or abnormal growths from any part
ofthe body.
“Diseases ofths’Genito-Urinary System, comprsing
the different stages of Ghonorrhoea, Strictures,
Gravel, Spermatorrhea, Syphilis, in its primary
secondary,tertiary and heriditary forms,will receive
particular attention.
References given whenever desired as well as the
recommendation of many years practice in New Or
leans; Cousultation hours every day at his office
in the Masonic Hall Building, from 10 to 12 o’clock
a, m„ and from 2to 4 o’clock p, m. Patients willdo
well to call precisely at those hours, as before and
after that time will be devoted to visiting personsin
t.he city.
Address all comiuuications to
DR. E. A. ROSSY.
Columbus. Ga,
N. 15. —Persons from a distance having servants
requiring surgical or medical treatment, will be
provi led with comfortable quarters, but in all cases 1
will have to furnish their own provisions and bed
ding.
will also bestow particular attention to
the treatment of the different forms of Ulcers, Rheu
matism, Gout. Scrofulous affections, Syphilitic erup
tions, and all other chronic diseases of the skin. —
Medicated Fumigations and Steam Sulphurous
Baths, as employed in the hospitals in Europe and
America, will form a part of my treatment,
feh 11 3m E. A. R.
Change of* Schedule.
Office Engineer and Superintendent, )
Charleston and Savannah Railroad, S
Charleston, June 7,1864.)
j iN THURSDAY, June 9,1864, and until further
U notice, the Schedule of the Passenger train will
be as follow, viz;
Leave Charleston., 9.45, a. m.
Arrive in Savannah. 5.40, p. m.
Leave Savannah 5.30, a. m.
Arrive in Charleston 1.15, p. m.
This Train makes direct connections, going north
and south, with the Northeastern Railroad at Char
leston, and the Central Railroad at the Junction.
. H. S. HAINES,
J une 14 ts Engineer and Superintendent.
FRICTIW ifIATHCES!
'THE Columbus, Ga., Friction Match Company,
1 have again resumed operations, and will, in a
few days, be prepared to supply them in quantity.—
They also make a superior article of Blacking, which
can be supplied in quantity.
Dealers'and others wishing to purchase, can ap
ply to Messrs. Livingston & Cos., or Messrs. Hull &
Duck, who will be kept constantly supplied.
S. D. THOM & CO.,
Manufacturers.
N. B. —It having cost me about $5,000 in the past
eighteen months, above receipts, to learn how to
make good matches, the public can now rely on get
ting a superior article. S. D. THOM.
Columbus, May 14,1864 dtf
Change of Schedule.
ON and after Sunday, June 19th, the Trains on
the v uscogee Railroad will run as follows:
PASSENGER TRAIN:
Leave Columbus 6 45 P. M.
Arrive at Macon 3 25 A. M.
Leave Macon 8 10 P. M,
Arrive at Columbus 4 25 A. K.
FREIGHT TRAIN:
Leave Columbus .5 00 A. M,
Arrive at Columbus 4 55 A. M.
W.L. CLARK.
mar 19 ts Supt. Muscogee R, R.
“ Notice to Planters and Con
sumers of Iron.”
WE will keep for sale, for Confederate funds, or
exchange for country produce—such as Corn,
Fodder, Bacon, Lard, Syrup, Peas, Potatoes, Tal
low, Butter, Wheat or Flour—the following articles,
on hand or made to order:
PLOW AND SCOOTER BAR IRON:
FLAT, ROUND AND SQUARE BAR IRON:
HOOP, HORSE SHOE, NAIL ROD;
IRON COTTON TIES (CHEAPER THAN
ROPE) FOR BALING :
SHOVELS AND SPADES:
FRY PANS;
POT WARE Ol SEVERAL DESCRIP
TIONS ;
SUGAR AND SALT KETTLES—FROM 40
TO 100 GALLONS;
SUGAR MILLS—I3 AND 15 INCH.
We are prepared to receive and fill orders for any
sizes and quantity of Iron, from our Iron Works
and Rolling Mill in Alabama.
JOHN D. GRAY & CO.,
apr3tf Next o New Bridge,
FOR SALE !
One of the Most Desirable Resi
dences in Wynnton*
THE Lot contains forty acres of Land—twenty of
which are in the woods. The House is commo
dious and convenient: containing six basement
rooms and seven on the first floor. On the premises
are good and new out-houses, barns and stables; an
orchard filled with selections of choice apples,
peaches, apricots, cherries, plums and pears; also a
vineyard of grapes in full bearing. This location is
healthy, supplied with excellent water and con
venient to the city. Persons desiring to invest will
not have as rare chance probably during the war.—
Parties wishing to negotiate for this property will
call on E. J. Pinckard, who will give them any in
formation desired. Possession given immediately,
jul 29 ts J. R. BANKS.
Negro Teamster* Wanted!
I wish to hire a number of Negro .Teamsters for
the Army of Tennessee. Citizens having such hands
will please notify me immediately; as in this way
a number of soldiers may be relieved to strengthen
our struggling army. Apply to
THOS. C. JOHNSON.
ju!27 2w Government Transportation M orks.
SSO Reward.
I WILL pay the above reward for 808, a bla- k
I boy, about 24 years old. He hu been oat three
or four weeks, and usupooeed to be larking about
the city JMO. hHIajSS
iyltf
Saturday Evening.
Yankee Deserters. —A Richmond paper
of the 28th says : Every day a squad of Yan
kee deserters, varying from five to twenty in
number, is marched into the city from the
lines on both sides of the Jame3. They all
tell the old story —Grant beaten, Union gone
rip, fighting don't pay, especially for negroes
and fanatics.
♦ ♦ ♦
Gen. Patton Anderson has been relieved
his commad in Florida, and ordered to
the army of Tennessee. Gen. John K. Jack
son has assumed command of the Florida de
partment, and has arrived at headquarters.
False Alarm. —On Tuesday night (says the
Macon Xelegraph) the up train from Colum
bus found the citizens of Taylor county, to
the number of sixty or more, assembled at
Butler and well armed for the defence of that
place against raid. A strong force had also
been dispatched to defend the Flint river
bridge. A courier had arrived from Fort
Valley reporting that a body of 200 raiders in
Twiggs county had burnt the railroad bridge
over the Ocmnlgee and were making down, to
the track of the Southwestern railroad. The
down train'from Macon, due at Butler .at half
past eleven, was not in on time, and did not
get there till an hour after. This fact seemed
for a while to corroborate the report. When
it did arrive, however, it was found that the
delay resulted from the impressment of the
train for the transportation of wounded to
Columbus. The citizens of Taylor county
deserve great praise for the prompti
tude with which they turned out to meet an
expected enemy, and, had he come, it was
clear from the spirit of the men assembled at
Butler, that he would have met with a warm
reception.
i Correspondence Atlanta Intelligencer.
(Atlanta, August 4, 1864.
Editor Intelligencer: As there is a good prospect
for a general engagement, I have come to the con
clusion that I would stay and see it, if it should
come off. I suppose the telegraph has apprised
you, ere this, ot the fighting which took place on
our right center about 5 o’clock yesterday evening.
The militia man our works on tbo right running
to the center; the Yankees attempted to charge
our pickets in front of our works on this portion
of our line and were repulsed with heavy slaugh
ter. Early yesterday morning, a similar attempt
i was made on our left and met with a similar result.
! While the fighting was goiug on, I could hear a
; Yankee band playing “Yankee Doodle” away to
| our left.
I thought at one time that a general engagement
had commenced, but after tho severe repulse
which the Yankees met with it dwindled down to
mere sharp shooting and skirmishing again.
The enemy threw about thirty shell into tho
heart of the city yesterday evening, without doing
much damage.
From Tuesday, at 12 M., until Wednesday, at 1
o’clock, no shells were thrown into the city. An
occasional shell came over into our midst during
last night.
A person who visited here before the army fell
back on this place, after an absence of two weeks
from the city, is astonished at the great change
that has been effected, but it is not near so great
as one might suppose from the big yarns ho hears
at a distance. I notice women and children walk
ing about the streets as though there was no army
within a hundred miles of the city. I notico, too,
in perambulating the town, that about two-thirds
of the residences of the city are occupied by fami
lies, and several of them the oldest inhabitants of
the place.
I also notice that some of our most substantial
and influential citizens are still in the city; among
them I see J. E. Williams, Dr. J. S. Denny, Mark
ham, Muhlinbrink, A, S. Myres, David Mayer,
W. Herring, A. Austell, the three Lynches, John,
James and Peter and many others.
The Yankee wounded, which are in our hands
at this place, are in the Medical College, and I un
derstand the Yankees, hit it occasionally.
Atlanta will never be taken by the Yankees, in
my opinion.
P. S.—Nearly all the Newnan raiders, who tore
up the M. <fc W. R. R., have been captured. The
prospects are brightening. P.
The Stoneman Raid
Clinton, August 2, 1864.
, Mb. Clisby ; Stoneman and his band of
thieves and robbers, as you are aware, have
been through our village and county, and
have despoiled our people of many valuable
goods. I was absent from home when they
came to our town, on Friday last. At my
house were no whites but my two small sons.
They cut into, with heavy axes, my bureaus
and secretary, broke all my locks and de
stroyed and carried off nearly everything val
; uable—all of my silver ware, table cutlery,
bed-clotbe3 ot all kinds, all of my wearing
apparel, notes, title- deeds, money, shoes, hats,
double-barrelled gun and pistol; took the
most of my bacon, and every horse and mule
I had, and took an ambrotype of my wife, who
has been dead nearly two years. *My servant beg
ged them not to take that as well as everything
else, but they plundered on, even to the dress
es and under-clothing she left at her death ;
and thus they treated many of our people, but
none quite so bad as myself, that I am aware
of; and yet these, are the people who are to
be our task-masters ; if we fail in this war. It
j has been thought by my friends that it was
; not only proper but might conduce to the
good of our cause by placing these facts be
fore the public; for the correctness and truth
i of which I refer to my neighbors.
Very respectfully,
R. W. Bonnes
[Macon Telegraph.
- - i— •-
Baio. Gen. Buford—An Incident.—A friend in
; forms us that during the recent engagement in
North Mississippi, this brave chieftain found him
self, with a very small force, on the crest of a hill.
Below was a strong and well aligned force of the
. enemy.
The General, observed that his little band did not
fire with sufficient coolness and precision, took a gun
and proceeded to give them a few practical lessons.
One time and one motion placed the ball end of the
' cartridge foremost in the barrel: the second motion
i drove it home, but the third, fourth and fifth snap
; ped as many caps. Throwing the gun aside, he was
soon supplied with another, with which he was more
successful; but riving a few rounds the Yankees ad- 1
vanced, when the General, lcoking around and find- i
j ing himself almost alone, exclaimed, "Give me my !
j horse!—they’re coming right up here, and these
men won’t stand.” But his horseholder was getting !
out of the way as fast as possible; and those who ■
are aware of the General’s portly figure can appre
ciate his efforts at a double-quick to regain his
. steed. The General is a hard fighter, and is gifted
with all those qualities so essential to high com- 1
| mand.
We are pleased to learn that Gens. Lee and For
rest have recommended him for promotion. He
richly deserves advancement.— Miss.
Yankees in Randolph Coustt.—From the Selma
Mississippian we clip the following item of news:
Scouts reported at Blue Mountain, on Monday !
night, that about six hundred Yankees, under >
McCook, were coming through Randolph county, in
the direction of Oxford. They were supp< sed to 1
be a foraging party. Colonel .fteid, who has com •
[ mand of our forces in that quarter, was prepared
I to meet them, and will doubtless gobble up the
whole party, if he bu cot already dune so
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The McCook Bald.
Correspondence of the Rebel.}
New nan? Ga., August 1, 1864.
Your readers may probably be interest
ed in some brief account of the McCook
raid which has just ended on the Chalta*
hoochee, some twelve miles below this.
McCook, with between two thousand
five hundred and three thousand picked
cavalry, on last Thursday crossed the
Chattahoochee between Campbelton and
Moore’s bridge apd that wing tore up the
railroad for about one mile at Palmetto,
which by the way was repaired and the
trains running over in two days. McCook
moved that night to Fayetteville where
he found between fifty and one hundred
Government wagous which he destroyed.
The next day he tore up perhaps one mile
of the Macon railroad; this is now repair*
ed, or will be by morning. Learning that
two bodies of cavalry were coming in dif
ferent directions to meet hjm. McCook
changed his course (having abandoned his
work on the railroad) and moved towards
Newnan.
The Confederate cavalry under Col.
| Wheeler fought him two or three times on
| Friday, killing and capturing nearly all of
j one regiment. When night came Mc
| Cook, with about two hundred prisoners
! and much stolen plunder, pressed forward,
traveling all night, and reached Newnan
about 7 o’clock Saturday morniug.
It so happened that General Roddy
with a part of one of his brigades was there,
and without any notice of his approach,
pitched into the advance guard with such
a hearty good will, that McGook at once
determined to flank Newnan. While he
was flanking, Gen. Wheeler passed through
and met him about four miles below New
nan, between the Lagrange and Grantville
roads, and fighting commenced.
McCook had been foiled in his move*
ments, which was doubtless to pass rapid*
ly through Newnan, stopping only to burn
public stores and steal mules and negroes,
and get back to the point on the Chatta
hoochee where he had crossed as he came
over, and where his pontoons were doubt
less guarded on the opposite side ; but
h\& flank movement had thrown him be
low the road, and enabled Wheeler to
take possession of all the roads, between
him and his pontoons, and in fact between
him and the river. Cols. Ashby and
Wheeler (Col. Wheeler,) with two small
regiments first met McCook’s whole com
mand and checked it. Ross’ brigade then
attacked them, and McCook finding him
self in a close place, halted and fought !
desperately fora short time. By two o’- J
clock, all Gen. Wheeler’s cavalry—which
hq had with him—being parts of Jack*
son’s and Hume’s divisions were up. or at
least within, reach.
Several close hand to hand, bat short
contests took place during the evening,
in all of which our men, in the fight, bore
themselves well and fought like veterans.
At one time, Ross’ brigade drove the ens
emy before them, but fighting on foot,
they had left their horses exposed, and
the enemy made a rapid movement and
captured some of their horses, these how»
ever were soon recaptured.
In the movements of troops, which was
in the woods and upon unknown ground,
the enemy at one time captured Gen.
Hume, but a few of his men, seeing him
in the hands of the enemy, with that in*
dividual heroism which has so often been
exhibited by our Southern soldiers, that
the most thrilling incidents now pass un«
noticed—rushed into the very presence
of the enemy, and while he stood amazed,
brought off their General in triumph !
Gen. Roddy finding that the fight had com
menced moved out on the LaGrango road, and
came up while it was progressing—the enemy
fightingbebind a fence and our men dismount
ed and out in an open field. The enemy about
this time ceased firing, and Gen. Roddy \va3
advised to form and move upon him. Gen.
Roddy had, perhaps, with him 1,000 men, and
nothing could exceed the gallantry with which
he executed this movement. His men. tbongh
properly cavalry, were acting as infantry, not
having their horses with them. This gallant
command, contrary to all expectations, reach
ed the fence without a gun being fired. The
enemv had fallen back into the woods where
the undergrowth was so thick that a man
couldn’t be seen twenty steps in many places.
But Roddy's men crossed the fence and moved
in line of battle until they found the enemy,
and here, for perhaps thirty minutes, the con
test was a close one, but never doubtful.
Roddy’s men kept moving and pouring volley
after volley into the enemy. Roddy has one
of the traits of a general whether he has
actions or not, that is, simply the common
sense to know that when an enemy is once
whipped it is an easy matter to make the vic
tory complete by pressing the fight. Such was
the spirit, a3 well as the skill of this move
ment, that the enemy gave way in confusion
and, until Roddy was induced to stop, he lo3t
no time in pursuing his retreating foe.
Perhaps it would not do to criticise the ar
dor of the General in command for the simple
reason that a commanding General cannot
always at the time know what every body can
see afterwards.
The enemy immediately abandoned his
I cannon, ambulances, medical stores, and eve
rything that retarded his movement, and tell
ing the Confederate prisoners to take care
of themselves, made a rapid movement around
Gen Wheeler’s right and into the road to La-
Grange, then crossing towards the river press
ed for the river—Wheeler pursued. Some
four hundred of the enemy remained and sur
rendered to Capt. Brown and Col. Worthing
ton, who had been their prisoners and just
released. It was not more than eight or ten
miles to the river, but Gen. Wheeler did not
reach there until next morning. The enemy
had scattered—thrown away their guns and
many of them abandoned their horses and
crossed on rafts. Some were captured at the
river, and some were drowned in crossing, and
upon the whole the command. a3 a command,
was wholly broken up. Those that get back
will get back as stragglers and not as an or
ganized body of troops.
The prisoners captured, will perhaps amount to
e ght hundred, may be a thousand, as soldiers,
citizens and even negroes are still constantly bring
ing them in. The killed and wounded i* estimated
at about 300. Mo9t of tho horses of the army
were captured, besides many horses and mules and
much other stolen property we captured. The
disaster to the enemy, is the most complete that
any large raiding party on either side has suffered
during this war, except the raid of Gen. Morgan
into Ohio. Our loss it light, KmJ m >t M
men, which is perhaps one half of too i I*mm.
Many of the citizens witnessed the ft *1 .>itg on
Saturday, and all hear testimony t» the * •ilantry
of the men in the fight, but all equally c incur ia
tho unpleasant admission, forced by a palatal
knowledge of the fact, that the general in oosa
m&nd, handled only the willing, while the unwil
ling and the slow soldier were away from their
command, and these with seemiag impunity loiter
ed about until the field was abandoned by the
euemy, and until the surrender was made, aad
then from all quarters they flocked to the field, for
a share of the spoils. Many of them carried away
led horses, besides saddles and bridles. All of
which they are proposing with seeming iimunity,
and in the most pnblie manner to trade off. TH»e
citizens are suffering immensely from these men,
some of whom tolled away their horses in their
presence.
A reference is here made to these facts because
the writer entertains the painful but consoiencious
conviction, that if cavalry commanders cannot, or
will not, hold their commands in tact, and command
them, they will be utterly ruined as commands.
I have no general criticism to make about tho
cavalry. Many of them are splendid soldiers and
in my opinion if well handled and made to obc\
orders, they would be tho best cavalry the world
has ever seen.
One feature of this raid should be mentioned.
The negroes almost unanimously fled and hid from
the Yankees, not one in a thousand exhibiting
any fondness for his Yankee frieud, who says to
him, I will call yon brother if you will do my
fighting. OrriZKN.
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[Special to the Richmond Whig ]
Harrisonburg, July 28.—The parti
culars of Early’s great victory at Kerns*
town are reaching here. The results
achieved, compared w : th the cost to ours
selves, are almost without precedent in the
war.
The enemy were completely routed and
thoroughly demoralized, lt is now un*
derstood that they weie commanded by
Averill and Crook, and numbered not less
than eighteen thouiand. On our side,
the divisions of Breckinridge and Gor
don were engaged. Breckinridge led the
skirmish line. The enemy soon broke
and fled in all directions. Our infantry
pursued them a distance of five miles be
yond W inchester, and our cavalry kept
up the pursuit seven miles further, to
Bunker Ilill. Night and exhaustion end*
ed the chase.
We captured from fifteen hundred to
two thousand prisoners. In the des
peration of their flight, the enemy burnt
their wagons and threw away their guns
and knapsacks. The panie and stampede
are described as worse than at Manassas
Prisoners were still coming iu when the
stage left yesterday. Our entire loss, in
killed and wounded, will not exceed fifty,
or, at most, sixty, of whom not more than
ten or fifteen are killed. The wounded
are well provided for, and tenderly nursed
in Winchester
Capture of More Raiders.—Sixty
eight more Yankees were received at the
Provost Marshall’s office in this city on
yesterday. We learn that another large
squad is on its way and will probably
reach here before we go to press. Our
cavalry are still hunting up the dispersed
raiders and eapturiug them by small
and large squads along the route of their
march. It is feared, however, that one
half of them will escape owing to the
long start they had of our men and the
jaded condition of the horses.— Mneon
Telegraph, 3d.
Wiiat Stoneman Says.— ln an in
terview with Gen. Stoneman yesterday,
he stated that at the time of his
der but 250 men were with him. Fifteen
to sixteen hundred of his troops had scat
tered and fled in all directions about three
hours before he gave up his sword. lie
further states that his officers reported to
him that their ammunition was exhausted.
Had the gallant Confederates knew of this
they would willingly have furnished them
powder to enable them to fight it out, for
our troops would much prefer killing raid
ers to taking them prisoners. Stoneman
says that of the 600 men brought in, all
but 250 were captured after his surrender
Everybody can take his statement for
what it is worth.— Macon Confederate.
m #
Capture Extraordinary. —A cor
respondent of the Petersburg Express
gives an account of the capture in Bruns
wick county of a gang of Yankee marau
ders, consisting of a Lieutenant and thirty-,
one men, by a Confederate Captain and
six citizens. The capture was effected in
the following manner :
While the Yankees were awaiting a
breakfast which they had ordered Mr. El
more to cook, Capt. White was in sight,
maturing his plans for their surprise and
capture. He stationed his company of
six mounted men several hundred yards
off in a lane, at the further slope of an
eminence, and in 3uch a manner as to pre*
sent the appearance of a front rank of
cavalry force. They were two abreast
and really looked as appearances would
seem to indicate. Capt. White then made
a circuit so as to avoid being seen by the
enemy, and dashing boldly up to the par
ty, defiantly ordered a surrender, or he
would cut them to pieces in a moment, at
the same time pointing to the head of
what seemed to be a squadron of cavalry.
Overwhelmed with surprise and panic
stricken, the valiant Brooks asked for
time to consult his men. Capt White
replied that there was no time for parley.
He must stack arms in the road and
march immediately up to the Dixie boys,
or the Dixie boys would march to them.
Lieut. Brooks immediately complied, and
stacking arms, they marched up to Capt.
White’s “formidable” body of cavalry.—
Upon finding that they had surrendered
to six citizens, armed only with double
barrel shot guns, their mortification was
great, but it was too late to retrieve their
misfortune. They were so far from their
arms, that Capt. White and his men, be
ing mounted, could have killed half ol
them before they could have fallen back
many paces, and then have speedily dis«
patched the balance by first gaining ac
cess to their carbines and pistols.
.We learn that the Central road will be in run
ning order in less than two days. The mails are ex
pected through to-morrow. We are glad to see the
energy that is being displayed in repairing the dam
age that was done by tne raiders. — Confed., sth.
Wanted !
Office Chief Quartermaster
Columbus, Ga., Aug. 5, '64,
One Hundred Negro Shoe-makers to work in
Government Shop. Call at once and help rae to
shoe the army.
Liberal prices will be paid.
F. W. DILLARD,
ang6 6t Major and Q’r.
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