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et us be men, and fight it out as we propose to do and not deal in such hypocritical appeals to God and humanity. God will judge us in due time, and he will pronounce whether it be more humane to fight with a town full of women and the families of a brave people at our back, or to remove them in time to places of safety among their own friends and people. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, W. T. Sherman, Major General Commanding. headquarters Army of Tennessee, September 12th, 1864. Major General W. T. Sherman, Commanding Military Division of the Mississippi. General:--I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9tn inst., with its inclosure in reference to the women, children, and others, whom you have thought proper to expel from their homes in the city of Atlanta. Had you seen proper to let the matter rest there, I would gladly have allowed your letter to close this correspondence, and, without your expressing it in words, would have