. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . troops filed into position in Shermans front,which was then near Jonesboro. By the 4th ourentire army was at this point, on the Macon road. On the Gth the Federals withdrew from our im-mediate front and moved off in the direction ofAtlanta. General Sherman published orders stat-ing that his army would retire to East Point, De-catur, and Atlanta, and repose after the fatigue ofthe campaign through which it had passed. Wewere apprised of these instructions soon after theirissuance —
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . troops filed into position in Shermans front,which was then near Jonesboro. By the 4th ourentire army was at this point, on the Macon road. On the Gth the Federals withdrew from our im-mediate front and moved off in the direction ofAtlanta. General Sherman published orders stat-ing that his army would retire to East Point, De-catur, and Atlanta, and repose after the fatigue ofthe campaign through which it had passed. Wewere apprised of these instructions soon after theirissuance — as well as of nigh every importantmovement of the enemy — through the vigilance ofour cavalry, spies, and scouts, and from informa-tion received through Federal prisoners. Uponthis date it may be justly considered that the oper-ations round Atlanta ceased. We had maintaineda defense, during forty-six days, of an untenableposition, and had battled almost incessantly, dayand night, with a force of about 45,000 againstan army of 106,000 effectives, flushed with vic-tory upon victory from Dalton to UNION DEFENSES AT ALLATOONA PASS (SEE ALSO P. 323). FROM A WAR-TIME PHOTOGRAPH. 4 Jrji)
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