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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter IX (search)
e of thirty miles, one corps below Jonesboroa being just driven from its ground with considerable loss and in retreat to Lovejoy's, the main body leaving Atlanta and stretched along the road toward McDonough; while Sherman's whole army, except Slocum's corps, was in compact order about Jonesboroa, nearly in a straight line between Atlanta and Lovejoy's. This seemed exactly the opportunity to destroy Hood's army, if that was the objective of the campaign. So anxious was I that this be attemptewhile Hood leisurely marched round us with all his baggage and Georgia militia, and collected his scattered fragments at Lovejoy's. Atlanta had become, like Richmond, in popular estimation the real objective of military operations. The public lrce under Sherman at Atlanta? This is one of the questions for the future historian to discuss. During our rest near Lovejoy's, General Sherman requested me to give him a statement in writing of my dissent from his decision upon the question of