Abraham Lincoln : a history . distantdetonations. Instead of asking one of the experi-enced officers of the staff his opinion as to thesesounds, he took the characteristic course of wakingup a farmer in the neighborhood and asking himwhat he thought of them. He replied — with thepositiveness derived from his summers education— that it sounded like a battle at Atlanta, and Sher-man could only wait for the morning to come tosolve the doubt in his mind whether Hood wasblowing up his own magazines or Slocum hadreached forward and had engaged him in morning came, it was ascertained thatH
Abraham Lincoln : a history . distantdetonations. Instead of asking one of the experi-enced officers of the staff his opinion as to thesesounds, he took the characteristic course of wakingup a farmer in the neighborhood and asking himwhat he thought of them. He replied — with thepositiveness derived from his summers education— that it sounded like a battle at Atlanta, and Sher-man could only wait for the morning to come tosolve the doubt in his mind whether Hood wasblowing up his own magazines or Slocum hadreached forward and had engaged him in morning came, it was ascertained thatHardee was gone, and Sherman starting after himin hot pursuit, came upon his lines at a point nearLovejoys Station. Here, while feeling the newConfederate position, rumors began to arrive thatAtlanta had fallen, and later in the day a letter fromSlocum confirmed the momentous news. Slocumhad heard the sounds which had so disturbedSherman, and moving rapidly from the bridge atdaylight had entered Atlanta without GENEKAL JOHN A. LOGAN. ATLANTA 289 Sherman sent the news to Thomas. This imper-turbable soldier, who yesterday had for the firsttime galloped his horse, now, says Sherman, snapped his fingers, whistled, and almost saw there was no hope for Atlanta from themoment that Hardee was repulsed at says in his memoirs that, had it not been forthe necessity of keeping his army between Sher-man and the Andersonville prison, he would havemet Shermans bold movement by another farmore bold—and it may be said, less judicious—thatis, to move north across Peach Tree Creek and theChattahoochee and take a position near the Ala-bama line across Shermans line of supplies; butthis plan never had a chance of realization. Hestopped Lees corps on its northward march nearRough-and-Ready, posted him so as to protect theConfederate left flank, marched out of Atlanta atfive oclock on the McDonough road, and concen-trated his army at Lovejoys Station. Sher
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