. Atlanta and its builders, a comprehensive history of the Gate city of the South. elled to leave uponthe field officially reported by the enemy who buried them anddressed their wounds to number 4,796 officers and men. The en-tire Union loss was reported to be 1,710. Where the fight ragedfiercest, whole Confederate brigades were almost annihilated. Inhis report, for example, Brigadier-General Featherston, of Lor-ings division, Stewarts corps, said that out of an effective totalof 1,230, 616 were killed, wounded and missing. Loring andWalthall, of Stewarts division, did most of the fighting on
. Atlanta and its builders, a comprehensive history of the Gate city of the South. elled to leave uponthe field officially reported by the enemy who buried them anddressed their wounds to number 4,796 officers and men. The en-tire Union loss was reported to be 1,710. Where the fight ragedfiercest, whole Confederate brigades were almost annihilated. Inhis report, for example, Brigadier-General Featherston, of Lor-ings division, Stewarts corps, said that out of an effective totalof 1,230, 616 were killed, wounded and missing. Loring andWalthall, of Stewarts division, did most of the fighting on thepart of the Confederates, and Geary and Williams, of Hookerscorps, on the part of the Federals. The battle endured from 4oclock in the afternoon until dark of a midsummer day. Hoods attack on Shermans right wing on the 20th of July,1864, was eminently characteristic of that commander. It wasan avalanche of battle. For weeks the Federals had been claim-ing that they only wanted a fair shot at their enemy, away frombreastworks and forests. They were given their opportunity 37i. >, u S-* fl> « S 0» OS > o O C o u0) W S o -J rt a, ,?U Battle Of Peach tree Creek 373 now. Much of the fighting at Peachtree Creek was done in theopen fields, and was almost hand-to-hand. The Confederates ad-vanced in fine fettle, confident of victory, and as they rushed uponthe Federal earthworks—mere scratches along the ground, asyet—their well-known yell was never more defiant. They foughtlike furies upon the very top of long stretches of these incompletetrenchheaps, bayoneting and clubbing the Federals who did notflee. In places, as has been stated, they fairly carried the hostileworks and broke the hostile lines, but everywhere the victors wereflanked and enfiladed because they were wholly unsupported. Ex-cept, perhaps, to teach Sherman to move more slowly, PeachtreeCreek profited Hood nothing. He could not hold the line thereand drew back to his Atlanta defenses. General Howard thu
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