JONESBORO THE BATTLE OF JONESBORO Stewart's corps was at Atlanta, Lee's corps was between Atlanta and Jonesboro, and Cheatham's corps, then numbering not more than five thousand men--because the woods and roads were full of straggling soldiers, who were not in the fight--was face to face with the whole Yankee army, and he was compelled to flee, fight, or surrender.

This was the position and condition of the grand Army of Tennessee on this memorable occasion.
If I am not mistaken, General Cleburne was commanding Cheatham's corps at that time.

We expected to be ordered into action every moment, and kept see-sawing backward and forward, until I did not know which way the Yankees were, or which way the Rebels.

We would form line of battle, charge bayonets, and would raise a whoop and yell, expecting to be dashed right against the Yankee lines, and then the order would be given to retreat.

Then we would immediately re-form and be ordered to charge again a mile off at another place.