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inhabitants. Peninsular War, B. XXIII, chap. 3. The inhabitants of Atlanta gave no such cause for action on the part of General Sherman, nor was the safety of the Federal Army in any manner involved. Nevertheless he ordered women and children, the infirm and the sick, in fact the entire population to go either North or South. The subjoined appeal of the Mayor and Councilmen of Atlanta was powerless to alter the determination of the Federal commander: Atlanta, Georgia, September 11th, 1864. Major General W. T. Sherman. Sir:--We, the undersigned, Mayor and two of the Council for the city of Atlanta, for the time being the only legal organ of the people of the said city, to express their wants and wishes, ask leave most earnestly but respectfully to petition you to reconsider the order requiring them to leave Atlanta. At first view, it struck us that the measure would involve extraordinary hardship and loss, but since we have seen the practical execution of it, so f