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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 18 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 16 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 8, 1864., [Electronic resource] 12 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 8 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 8 0 Browse Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 6 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 6 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 2 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 3 1 Browse Search
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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 48: (search)
my while actively engaged with the enemy, that I overcame the objection only in view of an emergency, and in the hope that the impending danger of the loss of Atlanta might be averted. The following extracts are made from a letter of the Hon. Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia, written at Atlanta October 12, 1878, and handed to me by the friend to whom it was addressed: On Wednesday or Thursday, I think the 28th or 29th of June, 1864, a messenger came to my house, sent, as he said, by General Jhee River at least fifty-four days, and perhaps sixty days. I made this calculation with General Johnston's data in his presence, and told him the result, and he assented to it. When this result was stated, General Hood, who was presented, said, Mr. Hill, when we leave our present line, we will, in my judgment, cross the Chattahoochee River very rapidly. Why, what makes you think that? said General Johnston, with some interest. Because, answerd General Hood, this line of the Kenesaw is the st