At Adairsville we took a train composed of box cars and left
for Resaca, where we arrived about 4 o'clock this morning. We at once left the
cars and formed a line of battle. Here we lay all day. The remainder of our
corps soon arrived, and later the Fourteenth Army Corps came up. The first
division of our corps was sent out after the rebels. They found them on the
railroad about six miles out between Resaca and Dalton, where they already had
destroyed about fifteen miles of track. Our troops engaged in a skirmish there
in which the Seventeenth Iowa were taken prisoners, but were at once paroled.
It is reported that the commander of the post at Dalton surrendered the place
without firing a gun. It is thought that the rebels are making for the
mountains, and if they succeed in getting there before we do, it will be hard
to trap them, as they are in their own country and among friends.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 221-2
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