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The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
the enemy keep up a constant musketry fire from their picket lines, with the design of preventing a surprise. Since Mahone's descent upon their pickets, they have been very nervous and apprehensive. From Georgia. Our Georgia exchanges furnish us with very little intelligence to copy Governor Brown has issued a proclamation for a levy en masse of the whole free white male population in the State between sixteen and fifty-five years old for forty days service. All persons refusing to report will be "carried immediately to the front." The fright in Milledgeville, when the enemy approached, was very great — some of the members of the Legislature paid as high as one thousand dollars to be carried eight miles. A letter was received in Columbus on Saturday, from Palmetto, a point on the West Point and LaGrange railroad, stating that Kilpatrick, with five thousand Yankees, was advancing down the country on the Alabama side of the Chattahoochee, burning and destroying everything.