corps repulsed six assaults of the enemy before they fell back, and which will swell the rebel loss in killed to at least 3,000. The latest reports state that we buried over 3,200 rebels killed in this fight. There were captured from the enemy in this battle 18 stands of colors and 5,000 stands of arms.
"By command of
Major-general George H Thomas.
"W. D. Whipple,
Assistant Adjutant-general."
GENERAL SHERMAN'S SPECIAL FIELD ORDER NO. 68.
"Headquarters Military Division, of the }
Mississippi in the Field, }
Atlanta, Georgia, Sept. 8, 1864. }
"The officers and soldiers of the armies of the Cumberland, Ohio, and Tennessee have already received the thanks of the Nation through its President and commander in chief, and it remains now only for him who has been with you from the beginning, and who intends to stay all the time, to thank the officers and men for their intelligence, fidelity, and courage displayed in the campain of Atlanta. On the 1st day of May our armies were lying in garrison, seemingly quiet, from Knoxville to Huntsville, and our enemy lay behind his rocky-faced barrier at Dalton, proud, defiant, and exultant. He had time since Christmas to recover from his discomfiture on the Mission Ridge, with his ranks filled, and a new commander in chief, second to none of the Confederacy in reputation for skill, sagacity, and extreme popularity. All at once our armies assumed life and action and appeared before Dalton. Threatening Rocky Face, we threw ourselves upon Resaca, and the rebel army only escaped by the rapidity of its retreat, aided by the numerous roads with which he was familiar, and
