| From the Augusta Constitutionalist |
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| August 26, 1864 |
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| The Last Raid |
| The Rebel of Monday gives the
following account of the recent raid from the Yankee lines around the
left of our army upon the Macon & Western Railroad. |
| The vigilance of our
authorities at the front had several days ago discovered that a raid
was in contemplation, and it had hardly left their lines before the
information was communicated to points liable to attack, and provision
was made to repel the raiders. Telegraphic dispatches from
Headquarters announced on Friday morning that it had started around
the left of our army, and our cavalry was already in pursuit. In
addition, a brigade of infantry was sent down the road. On Friday
evening, Gen. Ross, who had beaten the enemy to Jonesboro' with his
cavalry, was attacked by them at that place, but being unable to
contend successfully with the superior force of the enemy, fell back,
and the enemy occupied Jonesboro' that night. They perpetrated the
usual barbarities, and acts of vandalism, burning five private
residences and the Freight Depot and tearing down most of the
inclosures about town in sheer wantonness. It is also reported that
they burned the Court House, but this is contradicted, and needs
confirmation. |
| In the meantime a detachment
of about three hundred from the main force had struck the Railroad
about noon Friday, near Bear Creek, and captured the construction
train on its way down from Atlanta. Of course the train was destroyed,
two box cars alone escaping the general ruin. The raiders, however,
appear to have been under a big scare, and aside from the destruction
of the train, and the cutting of the telegraph wire, accomplished but
little. |
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