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The advance on Atlanta.
The well deliberated and carefully calculated programme of that coterie of warriors, statesmen, and rebellion crushers — Grant, Lincoln, and Seward, et id omne genus--was to seize Atlanta and Richmond at once, and thus make a simultaneous crush of the whole affair, and settle the business of President making after it was a lover.
In an editorial on this subject, the Atlanta Confederacy of June 7th, says:
Fighting had already begun in Spotsylvania county, Virginia, when Sherman, having got all in readiness, put his gigantic machinery in motion — the "On to Atlanta" was to be accomplished by a series of flank movements.
The "On to Atlanta" has not been consummated, but as much of it as we have been permitted to see has been conceived ingeniously and executed not without some display of strategic brilliancy.
If some enterprising Confederate sharpshooter had shot a bullet through Mr Therson's head, and knocked out Sherman's brains, the Yankee raid mi