HDQRS. SECOND DIV., FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
Rome, Ga., May 18, 1864.
Captain McCLURG,
Assistant Adjutant-General, Fourteenth Army Corps:
CAPTAIN: I arrived here last evening and had quite a sharp fight with two brigades of the enemy just before sunset. We soon whipped them. Our loss is less than 150 killed and wounded; the enemy’s considerably more. They retreated during the night, leaving us in possession of the strongest fortified place I have seen in Dixie. I shall bridge the river, and as soon as possible, join the corps. I have only four days’ rations. Please call the general’s commanding attention to the fact so that I may receive them as soon as I arrive.
I am, very respectfully,
JEF. C. DAVIS,
Brigadier-General, Commanding Division.
Colonel Wiles and Major Shea, Twenty-second Indiana, are among the wounded.