There he became bewildered, and sacrificed himself for the safety of his command.

He occupied the attention of his enemy by a small force of seven hundred men, giving Colonels Adams and Capron leave, with their brigades, to cut their way back to me at Atlanta.

The former reached us entire, but the latter was struck and scattered at some place farther north, and came in by detachments.

Stoneman surrendered, and remained a prisoner until he was exchanged some time after, late in September, at Rough and Ready.
I now became satisfied that cavalry could not, or would not, make a sufficient lodgment on the railroad below Atlanta, and that nothing would suffice but for us to reach it with the main army.

Therefore the most urgent efforts to that end were made, and to Schofield, on the right, was committed the charge of this special object.