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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 21 (search)
Chapter 19: Atlanta and after — pursuit of Hood.
September and October, 1864.
By the middle of September, matters and things had settled down in Atlanta, so that we felt perfectly at home.
The telegraph and railroads were repaired, and we had uninterrupted communication to the rear.
The trains arrived with regularity and dispatch, and brought us ample supplies.
General Wheeler had been driven out of Middle Tennessee, escaping south across the Tennessee River at Bainbridge; and things looked as though we were to have a period of repose.
One day, two citizens, Messrs. Hill and Foster, came into our lines at Decatur, and were sent to my headquarters.
They represented themselves as former members of Congress, and particular friends of my brother John Sherman; that Mr. Hill had a son killed in the rebel army as it fell back before us somewhere near Cassville, and they wanted to obtain the body, having learned from a comrade where it was buried.
I gave them permission to go b