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The Daily Dispatch: September 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], From Georgia. (search)
From Georgia. The ten days flag of truce between Sherman and Hood ends this evening, and to-morrow morning hostilities are to be resumed. The two commanding generals have filled up this interval with some sharp pen-and-paper skirmishing, in which Sherman has been using slang and waving "the old flag," and our commander has entered into the history, causes, &c., of secession. Both will use different weapons after to-day.
The Daily Dispatch: September 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], Arrival of the flag of truce with sick and wounded prisoners. (search)
move a heavy column to some point — possibly, Montgomery. More letters have passed between Generals Hood and Sherman. The latter answering General Hood's protect against the removal of the citizenGeneral Hood's protect against the removal of the citizens of Atlanta, says that General Johnston act him the precedent, by very wisely removing all the families on his way down to Dalton, that General Hood himself burnt dwellings near Atlanta to obtain sitGeneral Hood himself burnt dwellings near Atlanta to obtain sites for fortifications, and winds up with some stuff about the "old flag" and seizing United States property, and all that sort of nonsense. He concludes as follows: Talk thus to maranes, but notbacks, or to remove them in time to places of safety among their own friends and people. General Hood soon disposes of such arguments, showing that General Johnston never removed a single family except at their own request. General Hood, in finishing his letter, says: You say, "let us fight it out like men." To this my reply is, for myself, and I believe for all true men, aye, and wome
The Daily Dispatch: September 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], From Georgia. (search)
Wheeler's cavalry raid. --Among the many jokes to which Wheeler's cavalry raid has given rise, nothing is better than this in a letter from Hood's army: The boys in camp, who are always very severe in their criticism upon the cavalry when a failure occurs, say that Wheeler, in his detour from Dalton towards Knoxville, was on his way to tear up the road between Lynchburg and Richmond, and was only deterred from so doing by a dispatch from Jeff. Davis requesting the General to spare it.