early to-day, but the inclemency of the weather and unfavorable condition of the roads have dissuaded me from attempting it at present. I give the statement for what it is worth. It is the general impression that the enemy is gone.

I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

FRANK P. BLAIR, JR.,

Major-General.

ALLATOONA, June 18, 1864.

Major-General SHERMAN:

The telegraph wire cut three miles north of this place; 1 patrol picket killed, 1 mortally wounded. The strength of brigade, 500 men, one section of artillery.

GEO. C. ROGERS,

Colonel, Commanding.

HDQRS. DEPARTMENT AND ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,
Big Shanty, Ga., June 18, 1864.

Brigadier General K. GARRARD,

Commanding Second Cavalry Division:

Send immediately a good portion of your dismounted men with their arms to report to Colonel George C. Rogers, commanding at Allatoona.

By order of Major General James B. McPherson:

WM. T. CLARK,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

JUNE 18, 1864.

Captain DAYTON:

My men who went out to repair line near Etowah bridge returned, and report that the line was cut in two places, and a rail taken up from the railroad track at a point two miles and a half beyond Allatoona, by a party of twenty-five rebels, and that a patrol was fired on by them, killing 1 man and wounding 1.

Very respectfully,

J. C. V. D.

CAMP NEAR NOYES' CREEK, June 18, 1864-8.30 p. m.

Major ECKERT,

Washington, D. C.:

All last night and until 5 p. m. to-day it has rained heavily till the creek is a river and every rivulet a line of defense. No material progress. General Sherman still in doubt as to Johnston's design, but thinks we shall get the trial of strength here, or hopes so; said to me "to-morrow will tell that." Twenty-two hundred cavalry said to have gone around our left to strike railroads. Can't harm us; if so, it's too late.

J. C. VAN DUZER.