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The Daily Dispatch: September 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
t worth bringing off. It is reported here this evening that two brigades of Yankees crossed the Atlanta and West Point railroad, and struck out for the Macon and Western railroad. I give you below a note which I discovered written in a large bold hand with charcoal on the headboard of one of the Yankee bunks. The bunk is about three miles west of Atlanta. The note is as follows: "Good-bye, Johnny. We are going to see you soon, and when we come to Georgia we will remember Kennesaw. A letter dated the 28th says: Many persons think that the long agony is over — that the investment is raised, and that the city is safe. I am not so fast in my conclusions. Among the prisoners who are brought in every day, I do not perceive the slightest demoralization. They are all plucky, and have no idea of abandoning Atlanta. I see in late Northern papers hints which squint at a movement on our left; that is, upon East Point, the junction of the Macon and Montgomer