From Lovejoy's to Lost Mountain--Big Shanty--Acworth--Destroying 223
Railroad--In the Rear of Sherman--Situation of the Two
Armies--Orders to Destroy the Etowah River Bridge--To Fill Up
the Railroad Cut at Allatoona--Hood Not Aware that Allatoona Was
Fortified and Garrisoned--March to Allatoona--Summons to
Surrender--No Answer--Gen. Corse's Report Erroneous--The
Fortifications--Strength of Forces--Equalization of Forces--Some
Federal Dispatches--The Battle--Corse's Account--Col. Ludlow's
Description--Desperate Fighting--The Main Line Captured--Enemy
Driven into an Interior Fort--Dispatches from Gen. Armstrong
Respecting Movements of the Enemy at Big Shanty--Withdraw to
Avoid Being Surrounded by Converging Forces--Corse's Dispatch to
Sherman--Provisions--Confederates Three Days and Nights without
Rest or Sleep--Pass by the Enemy--Evangelist P. P. Bliss Writes
the (Gospel) Hymn, "Hold the Fort"--Hood and His Erroneous
Publications in His Book--His Admiration for Corse--My
Admiration for the Confederates--The Soldier's Grave--The Lone
Grave--Lieut. Gen. A. P. Stewart's Note in Regard to This
Account of the Battle