ANOTHER FLANK MOVEMENT OF THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE IN A PITCH-DARK NIGHT, WITH LOGAN ALL NIGHT IN THE SADDLE-LOGAN'S MILITARY SKILL DISPLAYED.

The men of the Army of the Tennessee never recovered from a severe battle with more confidence in their leader, nor was the esprit de corps more manifest at any time than in the days succeeding the battle of Atlanta, while Logan remained in command. He was received everywhere among them with the greatest enthusiasm and with the heartiest congratulations that he was in future to be their leader.

The time was occupied until the evening of July 26th in reorganizing the various commands, performing the last offices to the gallant dead, and preparing for the next movement, which was as usual by the flank, but this time to the right. It is but fair to say that a more difficult and delicate movement of an army than this, was not undertaken during the war. The enemy was intrenched closely in Logan's front, almost within speaking distance on many parts of the line, when the order came from General Sherman to withdraw under cover of night from that position, and move the three corps, past the rear of Sherman's other two armies, seven miles to the right. It was necessary to deceive the enemy entirely as to this movement, and the wheels of the gun-carriages and caissons were bound with wisps of hay and straw, in order that the utmost silence might prevail as the Army of the Tennessee moved out from its position. General Logan was in his saddle all night long and, with his staff, personally superintended the movements of every corps. They moved without the slightest confusion. By daylight of the 27th, the different corps of the entire Army of the Tennessee were safely upon their respective roads, prepared to go into their new position, and this without any casualty, leaving the enemy in complete ignorance of the withdrawal. The mili

tary talent displayed by Logan on this occasion was remarkable, when it is considered that the darkness of the night was such that the entire command was obliged almost to feel its way-it being impracticable to use any light, even that of a torch, with which to guide the troops.

HOWARD'S APPOINTMENT TO COMMAND THE ARMY OF THE A WORD, LOGAN RETURNS ΤΟ HIS

TENNESSEE—WITHOUT
BRAVE CORPS.

Overcome with fatigue and anxiety resulting from the sudden responsibility of the command of this army in the battle of the 22d, and this delicate movement in the face of the enemy, General Logan, on the morning of the 27th, at the White House, where General Sherman was quartered, was informed that General O. O. Howard had been appointed to the command of the Army of the Tennessee. Without a word, however, General Logan resumed command of his old corps, the Fifteenth, and during the 27th went into position on the right of the line, General Blair, of the Seventeenth Corps, on his left, and General Dodge, of the Sixteenth, upon the left flank.

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The rain poured in torrents as the army took up its posi tion on that day, and it was late in the evening before the troops were all deployed. Again the Army of the Tennessee was, by its right flank, "in air." The enemy was discovered late in the day again upon that flank, and, as the Army of the Tennessee could not reach so as to secure a position not easily turned, General Sherman ordered General Jeff C. Davis, with his division, to move at once and support the right flank.

Alluding to this appointment of Sherman's, General Grant, in his Memoirs, says: "I doubt whether he had an officer with him who could have filled the place as Logan would have done." See also Addenda to this work.

The morning of the 28th, found the Army of the Tennessee again confronting the enemy. Hardly had the Fifteenth Corps, under Logan, thrown up their earthworks, with logs and rails covering in their front, when Hood came at him. again. By eleven o'clock A.M. the fighting became general along his entire line, and then occurred another most desperate battle in which General Logan with his corps was exclusively engaged on our side. Six times did the enemy deploy from the woods in Logan's front; six times, with words of encouragement and threats from their commanding officers, they marched up to receive the deadly fire of Logan's troops; and six times they were repulsed with slaughter. Perhaps in the history of the war never was such persistent and desperate gallantry displayed on the part of the enemy; but his defeat was complete, and the reports of this battle of Ezra Chapel show that to Logan and his brave corps alone was due the credit of the victory.

General Sherman, in his report of this battle, says:

General Logan, on this occasion, was conspicuous as on the 22d, his corps being chiefly engaged; but General Howard had drawn from the other corps, the Sixteenth and Seventeenth, certain reserves, which were near at hand, but not used.

Again Sherman, speaking of Logan and his corps and this battle, says:

He commanded in person, and that corps, as heretofore reported, repulsed the rebel army completely.

General Grant, in his "Memoirs," says:

On the 28th the enemy struck our right flank, General Logan commanding, with great vigor. Logan intrenched himself hastily, and by