. The mountain campaigns in Georgia : or, War scenes on the W. & A . repulse. In an assault upon an intrenched battery, on a high, bare hill, they were driven back,after a bloody fight, with a loss of about 1,000 men. This is usually known as the battleof Kulps (or, more properly, Kolbs,) Farm. The general situation at about this period is well summarized in a dispatch fromGeneral Sherman to General Halleck, dated June 23d: We continue to press forward on the principle of an advance against fortified whole country is one vast fort, and Johnston must have at least fifty miles of c
. The mountain campaigns in Georgia : or, War scenes on the W. & A . repulse. In an assault upon an intrenched battery, on a high, bare hill, they were driven back,after a bloody fight, with a loss of about 1,000 men. This is usually known as the battleof Kulps (or, more properly, Kolbs,) Farm. The general situation at about this period is well summarized in a dispatch fromGeneral Sherman to General Halleck, dated June 23d: We continue to press forward on the principle of an advance against fortified whole country is one vast fort, and Johnston must have at least fifty miles of connectedtrenches with abatis and finished batteries. We gain ground daily, fighting all the time. * * *Our lines are now in close contact, and the fighting is incessant, with a good deal of artillery fire. Asfast as we gain one position the enemy has another all ready, but I think he will soon have to let goKennesaw, which is the key to the whole country. The weather is now better, and the roads aredrying up fast.— (Memoirs, Vol. II., pages 59, 60.) ^fjf^y$&.
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