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The Daily Dispatch: July 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
euralgic effects of which he is still suffering. In conclusion, the President was reduced to the alternative of retaining Johnston and losing Atlanta, or losing Johnston and the possibility of saving Atlanta. He could not but be satisfied that Johnston had already made up his mind to abandon the place as untenable. If he did not fight Sherman at the Chattahoochee, would he have done so in the open country around Atlanta? Sherman could turn his position at Atlanta more easily than at Kennesaw. It may be, and I fear is, too late to save Atlanta; but do not place the blame upon the wrong shoulders. And especially do not say Johnston could not but retire because Forrest was not sent to him. Forrest was not idle in the West; he was beating back column after column of reinforcements going to Sherman. The order for him to move to Georgia was given, nevertheless; but before he could obey it, the enemy were again moving from Memphis to the support of Sherman, and it became necessary