The two six-pounders farther in advance were, however, lost, and had been hauled back by the enemy into Atlanta.

Poor Captain de Gress came to me in tears, lamenting the loss of his favorite guns; when they were regained he had only a few men left, and not a single horse.

He asked an order for a reequipment, but I told him he must beg and borrow of others till he could restore his battery, now reduced to three guns.
How he did so I do not know, but in a short time he did get horses, men, and finally another gun, of the same special pattern, and served them with splendid effect till the very close of the war.

This battery had also been with me from Shiloh till that time.
The battle of July 22d is usually called the battle of Atlanta.

It extended from the Howard House to General Giles A.Smith's position, about a mile beyond the Augusta Railroad, and then back toward Decatur, the whole extent of ground being fully seven miles.
In part the ground was clear and in part densely wooded.