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The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley) 1,463 127 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 1,378 372 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 810 42 Browse Search
John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies 606 8 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 565 25 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 473 17 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 373 5 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 372 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 277 1 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 232 78 Browse Search
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From Gen. Johnston's army. Atlanta, Ga., Monday, July 14, 1864. --On the night of the 9th our army crossed the Chattahoochee river, giving up our line of works on the opposite side. The enemy were crossing below Turner's ferry, on our leftn would attack Sherman before he could entrench on this side of the river. Our lines now are about four miles north of Atlanta, in the form somewhat of a semi circle, extending to the right and left around the city, thus protecting it. Everything e importance of the place as a base and a depot for supplies warrants this conclusion. The proximity of our army to Atlanta has caused a considerable stir among the citizens and noncombatants, and all those who are note are taking themselves anarmy. The men are willing and ready to fight, and they say that they will fight harder between our present position and Atlanta than they have ever fought before. It has now been more than sixty days since this fight commenced, and it is aston
rially that it is now safe to say there were periods between Saturday and Monday morning when the rebels might have dashed into Washington and effected its capture, if not its occupation. The Chronicle also says that the rebels are so flattered because they have put Washington and Baltimore in terror that they will not hesitate to repeat the experiment. The Chronicle says, editorially, that Sherman has crossed the Chattahoochee, and that Johnston is inside of the fortifications at Atlanta, and that it is not probable that Johnston, who failed to arrest Gen. Sherman in fortified mountain strongholds, will be able to detain him long before a down in an open country accessible to approaches on all sides. The danger is, it says, that Johnston will give up the place in despair and destroy such of his munitions and supplies as cannot be removed and retreat further to the Southwest, in the direction of Augusta or Savannah. In continuation, it says, it is probable that Sherman wil