^sailed the position held by Waleutt’s brigadea<J ross the Villa Rica road and met a bloody re-Pulse. General Bate officially reported the loss inls division as 450. General"Walcutt in his officialle port says that “ 244 dead and -wounded rebels1,Vere found in my front,” and many were doubtlessr enaoved. The Confederate loss in this “veryaffair ” was, therefore, over seven hundred.ae loss of the Fifteenth Corps was 370, or about^e-half the Confederate loss, instead of “morean ten times as many.”
General Johnston assumes that General Sher-ai1 Used his entire army in the assault of Kene-® a Ur Mountain, when, in fact, he employed lessy* a u 15,000 men. The remainder of the armya snot engaged, except in the continuous battle of, 6 skirmish-lines. The assaulting column of thec r,n yof the Cumberland, directed against Hardee’s® r Ps, was composed of five brigades about nine^ °usand strong. The formation was such that eachGgade presented a fi-ont of but two companies.« 16 leading regiments lost very heavily; those inr 6 re ar suffered few casualties. General Thomas^ported the entire loss as 1580. The attack ofp e Rnay of the Tennessee was made upon the-'"nfederate intrenchments held by French ’s di-
vision and a part of Walker’s, by three brigades ofthe Fifteenth Corps, numbering 5500 men. Theirformation was in two lines ; their total loss 003,three-fourths of this falling on the regiments inthe first line.
General Johnston expresses the belief thatNorthern soldiers could not be repulsed with cas-ualties so small as reported at Kenesaw. In thishe, unwittingly perhaps, compliments Sherman’sarmy at the expense of his own. On the 22d ofJune, five days before the battle of Kenesaw, hetells us that the divisions of Stevenson and Hind-man were repulsed, in an assault on the Unionline, with a loss of one thousand men. These di-visions, June 10th, numbered over eleven thou-sand for duty. Their loss, therefore, was but nineper cent., while that of the troops of the Army ofthe Cumberland engaged at Kenesaw was 17 percent.; of the Army of the Tennessee, 11 per cent.In both cases the loss sustained was sufficient todemonstrate thefutilityof further effort. In neithercase was it a fair test of the staying qualities ofthe troops, who on many fields had shown theirwillingness to shed any amount of blood necessarywhen there was reasonable hope of success.
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C0 NFEDEltATE DEFENSES AT THE BRIDGE OVER TIIE ETOWAH. FROM A WAR-TIME PHOTOGRAPH.