bridges, scaled precipices, and constructed roads through the wildest of countries; had fought battles, skirmished almost every day, by moonlight, and amid darkness and howling storms; and had captured every strong-hold from a large and well-officered army, and driven them back within thirty miles of Atlanta.

Previous to this time the public had not regarded Sherman as a military genius or a very cautious general. He was considered to be a bold, fearless, and hard fighter, but very reckless. The manner in which he had conducted the campaign thus far, had removed these impressions, and he has since that time been regarded as one of our ablest generals.

INCIDENTS.

We will close this chapter with the following incidents, which we give upon the authority of various correspondents.

A rebel who had voluntarily given himself up, was asked by one of our soldiers what he thought of Sherman. This was his reply: "Sherman gits on a hill, flops his wings and crows; then yells out, attention! creation! by kingdoms right wheel! march! and then we git."

Some of the prisoners, with an air of great curiosity inquired in reference to the breech-loading Henry rifle, which can be fired sixteen times

without re-loading:

"Where do you get those guns

which you load on Sunday, and fire all the week without re-loading?"

A YANKEE TRICK.

Colonel Wolcott of the Forty-sixth Ohio, played an original and striking trick upon the rebels in his front. They were behind a very heavy earthwork and safe from our sharpshooters. Advancing his regiment he constructed a substantial rifle pit, in which he placed his regiment entirely covered from the rebels, and within short range of their works. He then formed columns some distance in the rear with considerable display, as if about to storm the rebel works. After he had sufficiently attracted their attention, his bugles sounded "forward." The rebels jumped to their works in readiness to resist an assault. The "Johnnies" thus exposed the half of their bodies above the parapet, and instantly received full and square in their faces the volleys of the sixteen shooters of the Fortysixth. The line fell down and the survivors thunderstruck by the unexpected fire, ran without ceremony out of the works. No doubt they considered it a Yankee trick.

JEFF. C. DAVIS' JOKE.

General Jeff. C. Davis played a serious joke upon the enemy in his front, of which I have not given you the particulars. Davis' division was

near the foot of a hill, near the the top of which the rebels had a strong intrenchment. Davis advanced a regiment as skirmishers up the hill through the woods. It moved pretty well up to the work, and finding it too strong to assault, the colonel halted his command, and reported to General Davis that he could not proceed any further without great loss. Davis ordered him to hold his men in that position until he should hear his signal to withdraw. Leaving an interval of the length of his regiment, he put troops on either side and in front of this space in ambush, and sounded the recall. As the regiment commenced falling back leisurely, the rebels came out of their work, and with a tremendous yell, charged down the slope expecting to capture the retreating Yankees. The speed of our men was accelerated and down they rushed to their place in the line, pursued closely by the rebels. The result was a fearful slaughter of the entrapped confederates. Few of the assailants escaped Davis' enfilading fire.

CHAPTER X.

SHERMAN'S GREAT CAMPAIGN FROM CHATTANOOGA TO ATLANTA.

OPERATIONS OF THE ARMY FROM JUNE SEVENTH TO THE CAPTURE OF ATLANTA-SHERMAN'S REPORT-EFFORTS то BREAK THE ENEMY'S LINES BETWEEN KENESAW AND PINE MOUNTAINS -DEATH OF GENERAL POLK

MC PHERSON'S OPERATIONS-TWO DIRECT ASSAULTS

KENESAW ABANDONED

THE CHATTAHOOCHEE

THE PURSUIT -PASSAGE OF THE BATTLE OF THE TWENTIETH -JOHNSTON RELIEVED ATTACK ON OUR RIGHT-POSITIONS OF OUR FORCES-SUDDEN ATTACK· DEATH OF MCPHERSON-GRAND MOVEMENT OF THE RIGHT FLANK

KILPATRICK'S OPERATIONS SHERMAN'S FLANK

MOVEMENT AND THE CAPTURE OF ATLANTA-BOMBARDMENT OF ATLANTA—SHERMAN'S CONGRATULATORY ORDER.

The last chapter brings the account of this wonderful campaign to June 7, 1864. In this chapter we propose following him to the capture of Atlanta. The details of this part of the campaign cannot be given in this chapter, but will be given in a subsequent and separate part.

We learn from General Sherman's official report, upon which we base our statements in this chapter, that dispositions were made to break the lines of

the enemy between Kenesaw and Pine Mountains. This was on the 11th. General Hooker was placed on the right and front, and General Howard on the left and front of the enemy's position, and General Palmer between it and the railroad. During a sharp cannonading from Howard's right or Hooker's left, General Polk, the renowned bishop of the Episcopal Church, was killed on the 14th.

On the morning of the 14th, Pine Mountain was found abandoned by the enemy. Generals Thomas and Schofield advanced, and found the enemy again strongly intrenched along a line of rugged hills connecting Kenesaw and Lost Mountains. At the same time General McPherson advanced his line, gaining substantial advantage on the left. Pushing operations on the centre as vigorously as the nature of the ground would permit, General Sherman ordered an assault on the centre, when, on the 17th, the enemy abandoned Lost Mountain, and the long line of admirable breastworks connecting it with Kenesaw Mountain. Our forces continued to press at all points, skirmishing in dense forests of timber and across most difficult ravines, until they found the enemy again strongly posted and intrenched, with Kenesaw as his salient point, his right wing being thrown back so as to cover Marietta, and his left behind Nose's Creek,