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passing through heavy fortifications on the right bank of the Chattahoochee River, near the railway bridge, and then among others more thickly strewn around the ruined city.
We spent a greater portion of two days in and about Atlanta, visiting places of chief interest connected with the siege, accompanied by Lieutenant Holsenpiller, the post commander, and two other officers.
Then we went down to Jonesboroa, twenty-one miles south of Atlanta, on the Macon road.
It was a little village of seven hundred inhabitants when the war began.
It, like others in the track of the armies, was nearly ruined.
The Courthouse, and almost twenty other buildings, were destroyed.
An intelligent young man, who was a Confederate soldier in the battle there between Howard and Hardee,1 accompanied us to places of interest connected with that struggle, and at about noon we returned to the village and took the cars for Atlanta.
We went out to Marietta that night and lodged, and on the following morning we journeyed by railway from that town to Cleveland, in East Tennessee, on our way to Richmond, in Virginia, by way of Knoxville.2
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