The  conflict  raged  with  great  fierceness;  and
Sherman,  from  the  top  of  Kenesaw,  heard  the
roar  of  caimon  and  saw  the  smoke  of  battle,
though  eighteen  miles  distant.  He  had  pushed
forward  a  corps  (Twenty-third)  to  menace  the
Confederate  rear,  and  by  signal-flags  on  Kene-
saw he  said  to  the  commander  at  Allatooua,
"Hold  out,  for  relief  is  approaching."  And
when  Sherman  was  assured  that  Corse  was  there,
he  said,  "He  -will  hold  out;  I  know  the  man."
And  so  he  did.  He  repulsed  the  Confederates
several  times ;  and  when  they  heard  of  the  ap-
proach of  the  Twenty-third  corps,  they  hastily
■withdrew,  leaving  behind  them  two  hundred
and  thirty  deatl  and  four  hundred  prisoners,
with  about  eight  hundred  small  arms.  The
Nationals  lost  seven  hundred  and  seven  men.
AUen,  Ethan,  born  at  Litchfield,  Conn.,  Jan.
10,  1737 ;  died  at  Burlington,  Vt.,  Feb.  12,  1789.
In  1762  he  was  one  of  the  proprietors  of  the
iron  -  works  at  Salisbury,  Conn.  In  1766  he
went  to  the  then  almost  unsettled  domain
between  the  Green  Mountains  and  Lake  Cham-
plain,  where  he  was  a  bold  leader  of  the  set-
tlers on  the  New  Hampshire  Grants  (which
see)  in  their  bitter  controversy  with  the  author-
ities of  New  York.  During  the  controversy  sev-
eral pamphlets  were  written  by  Allen,  in  his  pe-
culiar style,  which  forcibly  illustrated  the  injus-


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