. . e rear. McCook, however, succeeded in cutting his way out, with a loss of fivehundred men, and returnedto Marietta. McLaughlins Squad-ron belonged to the columnof Stoneman, which hadbeen concentrated on theleft of the Union line, nearDecatur, and from thatpoint passed around Atlan-ta to the eastward. Thefollowing narrative of theSquadrons adventures is aQpOStte story, compiledfrom the accounts furnishedby Sergeant Pomeroy, Ser-geant Morris, and BuglerEverly . The command startedfrom the left on July 27thto carry out its part of t
. . e rear. McCook, however, succeeded in cutting his way out, with a loss of fivehundred men, and returnedto Marietta. McLaughlins Squad-ron belonged to the columnof Stoneman, which hadbeen concentrated on theleft of the Union line, nearDecatur, and from thatpoint passed around Atlan-ta to the eastward. Thefollowing narrative of theSquadrons adventures is aQpOStte story, compiledfrom the accounts furnishedby Sergeant Pomeroy, Ser-geant Morris, and BuglerEverly . The command startedfrom the left on July 27thto carry out its part of theprogram. At the last mo-ment Stoneman got per-mission from (icneral Sherman to gp below Lovejoys to Maconand thence to Andersonville, for the purpose of releasing theUnion | there confined. Stoneman proposed this, and Sherman only consented on condition that he should join McCookand with the united force defeat Wheeler, and then send GeneralGarrards division back to the main army. Stoneman detachedGarrards division and with about three thousand men proceeded. ALBERT A. POMBBoUAKTt M RGEANT, COMPANY B, «LAUGH LIN* S SQUADRON, t864.] LRED KM AT MACON. southward on a hazardous and, as it proved, disastrous expedition. Although the start was made under unfavorable auspices, Stoneman finally succeeded in eluding (General Wheeler, crossed the * ee river high up near Covington, and followed the I down «>n thet-ast bank. Reaching Clinton, detachments were out, which struck the railroad leading from Macou toSavannah, at Griswold station, and destroyed seventeenlocomotives and more than one hundred cars. One of the de-tachments burned the railroad bridge across the Oconee river andall re-united in front of Macon. Stoneman shelled the town, butthe river lay between and he could not cross by the bridge, whichwas strongly guarded with cannon in such a position that theyeffectually covered the approaches. The railroad bridge, in likemanner, was defended by 12-pounders placed on flat c
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