. The twelve decisive battles of the war; a history of the eastern and western campaigns, in relation to the actions that decided their issue . l those forces built strong bridges, and intrenchedtheir positions without much opposition, as the fordablc natureof the river induced Johnson to take up his line along Peach-tree Creek and the Chattahoochic below that point. How-ever, as a consequence, on the night of the 9th, Johnsonabandoned his strong position on the Avcst bank of the riverat Turners Ferry, an4 in that act left Sherman, as the guer-don of his well-manoDuvrod and well-fought campaig
. The twelve decisive battles of the war; a history of the eastern and western campaigns, in relation to the actions that decided their issue . l those forces built strong bridges, and intrenchedtheir positions without much opposition, as the fordablc natureof the river induced Johnson to take up his line along Peach-tree Creek and the Chattahoochic below that point. How-ever, as a consequence, on the night of the 9th, Johnsonabandoned his strong position on the Avcst bank of the riverat Turners Ferry, an4 in that act left Sherman, as the guer-don of his well-manoDuvrod and well-fought campaign, theunchallenged mastery of all North Georgia between the Ten-nessee and the Chattahoochic. n. BATTLE OF ATLANTA. In the latter days of the Confederacy, the grim fatalitywhich from the outset had walked with it, side by side, alongits destined course, silent and unseen, seemed to throw off, atlength, the cloak of invisibility, to stab it boldly with mortalblows. Looking at that epoch even with such light as the fewsubsequent years of history have thrown upon it, in the logicof events and the character of the actors, we may find ration-. ATLANTA. 405 al ncccssitj for all that took place. But so stupendous Treresome of the acts of folly then perpetrated by the Confederateleaders, that one would say that it was not enough for the in-surrection to rear its front hiprli opposed to the storm of blowswhich fell crushingly upon it from without, but it must suc-cumb to keener pangs received from within. AVhile, in theenthusiasm of the contest, it seemed hardly fanciful to declarethat Fate itself, shadowing the Confederacy so long throughsuccesses, Avith imsuspccted presence, at length revealed itssardonic figure in the moment of destin}^ to lix its doomand downfall. One such mysterious blow to the Confederacy was that bywhich General Johnston was removed from its Western armyat the moment when he was most needful for its salvation,kept from command till an intervening general had ruin
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