...meddle with Sherman's rear he can afford to subsist this army, and I fear the citizens where our parties have been are not now luxuriating in their plenty of which the "Confederacy" is so boastful. Atlanta has been, and is being, fortified, to make it almost a Gibraltar; but as it can no longer be a strategic point for the rebels, I think it not certain that it will not be abandoned when we start on th...