Identifier: redeemingrepubli00incoff (find matches)
Title: Redeeming the republic : the third period of the war of the rebellion, in the year 1864
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
Subjects: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
Publisher: New York : Harper & Bros.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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Wheeler about Resaca and Dalton had been repaired, and Wheeler him-
self was too far away to be of any service to his own army, and where he
could not do us much harm.⁽⁴⁾ General Sherman sent this despatch to General Halleck in Washing-
ton : " Heavy fires in Atlanta all day, caused by our artillery. I will be
all ready, and will commence the movement around Atlanta
Aug. 24, 1864.
by the south to-morrow night, and for some time you will
hear little of us. I will keep open a courier line back to the Chattahoo-
chee bridge, by way of Sandtown. The Twentieth Corps will hold the
railroad bridge, and I will move with the balance of the army, provisioned
for twenty days."
General Sherman was confident that the Confederate cavalry under
Wheeler could not seriously interfere with the running of railroad trains.
It was soon seen by the Confederate troops that Hood had made a mis-
take in sending Wheeler northward into the State of Tennessee. A Con-
federate writer says that it was an irreparable blunder.⁽⁶⁾ A Confed-
erate has pictured the scene in Atlanta:" There are excavations in the
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GEN. JUDSON KILPATKICK.

FALL OF ATLANTA. 413

ground, roofed with heavy logs, over which is heaped a mountain of earth.
The garden to almost every house which does not boast of a cellar has one
of these artificial bomb-proofs. They are perfectly secure against the
shells, and many of them are quite comfortably furnished with beds,
chairs, and other furniture. Women and children are huddled together
in them for hours at a time, and when the city is furiously shelled at
night, the whole community may be said to be underground."⁽⁶⁾
The Twentieth Corps was marching north-west, to be the guard at the
Chattahoochee. The Fourth Corps, under General Stanley, was marching
south towards Utoy Creek. Garrard's cavalry picketed their
Aug. 26, 1864.
horses in the woods where the Confederates could not see
them, and took the place of the departing troops in the trenches. As soon
as it was dark on the night of the 26th, the Army of the Tennessee, under
the command of Howrard, left its trenches and moved south, unseen by the
Confederates.

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