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The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], The cruise of the "Tallahassee ." (search)
From Georgia. Macon, September 16.
--Parties arrived here from Atlanta say that great numbers of Sherman's army are going home, and that ten thousand had already gone, and more are following, their terms of service being out.
The whole situation here looks well.
Yesterday was observed by the people and army as a day of fasting and prayer.
The Chattanooga Union and Nashville Gazette, of the 11th and 13th instants, have been received.
They say that Wheeler has been forcehville Gazette, of the 11th and 13th instants, have been received.
They say that Wheeler has been forced from Middle Tennessee, and driven into North Alabama.
The Gazette contains Sherman's congratulatory address to his army.
He tells them that they have performed prodigies of valor, and that Atlanta was captured by General Hood making a mistake in sending his cavalry to his [Sherman's] rear.
He says that the Confederate army, both under Johnston and Hood, fought with heroism.
Rumors — exchange of prisoners agreed on. Macon, September 17.
--Rumors are rife to-day that Sherman has sent an informal request to Governor Brown, Vice-President Stephens, and H. V. Johnson, to come to Atlanta and confer with him upon the subject of peace.
General Hood has relieved his chief of staff, Brigadier-General Shoup, of duty.
Major Macon is now acting in that capacity.
Five hundred exiled families have arrived in our lines from Atlanta.
Their condition is most d H. V. Johnson, to come to Atlanta and confer with him upon the subject of peace.
General Hood has relieved his chief of staff, Brigadier-General Shoup, of duty.
Major Macon is now acting in that capacity.
Five hundred exiled families have arrived in our lines from Atlanta.
Their condition is most deplorable.
A special exchange of two thousand prisoners has been agreed upon by Generals Hood and Sherman, and seven hundred Yankees will be sent forward to-night for that purpose.
General Sherman on recruiting negroes in the Confederate States.
Sherman seems to have little confidence in the negro troops.
He has written the following letter to the Massachusetts agent for recruiting that sneaking State's quota out of negroes within the Confederate States:
headquarters Military Division of the Mississippi, in the Field, near Atlanta, Ga., July 30, 1864. John A. Spooner, Esq., Agent for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Nashville, Tennessee: sir:
Yours from Chattanooga, July 28, is received notifying me of your appointment by your State as Lieutenant-Colonel and Provost-Marshal of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, under the act of Congress, approved July 4, 1864, to recruit volunteers to be to the States respectively.
on applying to General Webster, at Nashville, he will grant you a pass through our lines to those States, and, as I have had considerable experience in those States, would suggest recruiting depots to be established at Mac