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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Chapter 26: (search)
Grant had first suggested in his telegram of the 10th of September. But at this moment the whole situation changed as suddenly as the scenery in a theatre. Sherman's letter was dated September 20th, and on the 21st, Hood moved his army from Lovejoy's, where he had remained since the capture of Atlanta, to Palmetto station, on the West Point railroad, twenty-four miles south-west of the national position. From this place, on the 22nd, he announced to Bragg: I shall, unless Sherman moves soh had been beaten and decimated in a vain attempt at the defensive could successfully undertake the offensive against the force that had so often defeated it. Sherman promptly reported the new manoeuvre of the enemy: Hood is falling back from Lovejoy's, but I will not follow him now. I will watch him, as I do not see what he designs by this movement. He had not long to wait. The rebel President had come from Richmond to the camp of Hood, and all along the road, with extraordinary fatuity,