. . ORWARD. A Rebel Captain Taken in—Johnston Evacuates Marietta—An-other Fourth of July—An Unexpected Explosion in theBattery—A View of Atlanta—Death of Lieutenant Aykes—A Wild Rush to Roswell and Back—Across the Chatta-hoochee—Adventure with Rebel Artillery—Colonel Op-dyckes Definition of a Forlorn Hope. DURING the night of June 30th the Sixty-fifth was on pick-et, the outposts being not more than fifty yards fromthose of the rebels. A Confederate captain, of the Fifty-eighth Alabama, went to the front to inspect the postsami see i
. . ORWARD. A Rebel Captain Taken in—Johnston Evacuates Marietta—An-other Fourth of July—An Unexpected Explosion in theBattery—A View of Atlanta—Death of Lieutenant Aykes—A Wild Rush to Roswell and Back—Across the Chatta-hoochee—Adventure with Rebel Artillery—Colonel Op-dyckes Definition of a Forlorn Hope. DURING the night of June 30th the Sixty-fifth was on pick-et, the outposts being not more than fifty yards fromthose of the rebels. A Confederate captain, of the Fifty-eighth Alabama, went to the front to inspect the postsami see if his men were doing their duty. It was very dark andhe lost his bearings. He appeared before a post occupied by threemen of Company G, of the Sixty-fifth, Supposing them to be hisown, he instructed them to be alert and valiant, and if the Yankeeadvanced to give them fits—or words to that effect—and theboys said they would. As he turned to leave, they cocked theirmuskets and told him to come in out of the wet, which he did 565 566 [j« PHILIP H. SHERIDAN, MAJOR-GENERAL, COMMANDING SECOND DIV1SIAT MISSIONARY RIDGE.
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