THE STRUGGLE FOR ATLANTA.

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CONFEDERATE lNTRENCIIMENTS NEAR NEW HOPE CIIlIltCH. FROM A WAR-TIME PHOTOGRAPH.

Ca adles lighted up dimly the incoming stretchers and the surgeons’ tablesai id instruments. The very woods seemed to moan and groan with thev °ices of sufferers not yet brought in.

McPherson, with Davis for his left, took position at Dallas , having Logan0ri his right, and Garrard’s cavalry still beyond. There must have been a^ a P of three miles between McPherson and us. Schofield was badly injuredY the fall of his horse in that black forest while finding his way during theJ^ht to Sherman’s bivouac, so that for a few days Cox took his command.

. ° x > with his Twenty-third Corps, and Palmer with the Fourteenth, swungj ri heyond me, as my men were moving up carefully into their usual posi-0 i)s in li rie of battle. Now the enemy kept strengthening his trench-bar-V Ca des, which were so covered by thickets that at first we could scarcelytect them. As he did, so did we. No regiment was long in front of John-11 s army without having virtually as good a breastwork as an engineer^ 0vdd plan. There was a ditch before the embankment and a strong log1 , e ® ueu t behind it, and a heavy “ top-log” to shelter the heads of the men.av e known a regiment to shelter itself completely against musketry andmery with axes and shovels, in less than an hour after it reached its

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^ It would only weary the reader’s patience to follow up the struggle steptli il 0 !* I 1 ’ 0111 New Hope Church to the Chattahoochee. Still, these werehardest times which the army experienced. It rained continuously for• n da y s > the roads, becoming as broad as the fields, were a series ofp. ^"ures. And, indeed, it was difficult to bring enough supplies forwardhi Kingston to meet the needs of the army. Sherman began to pass his