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The Daily Dispatch: September 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
tarving Hood out, and leading to the capture of Atlanta, it will not even interrupt his communication with Montgomery, if the railroad presidents in that country be as active and energetic as they have proved themselves to be in this. From East Point — about three miles beyond which the Yankees now are — to West Point is eighty-one miles. From West Point to Opelika, where the Muskogee railroad strikes the Montgomery and West Point railroad--the latter being continuous with the Atlanta and West Point railroad--the distance, we should judge, is about fifteen miles. At any rate, it is hard upon one hundred miles from the junction of the Muskogee to Fairburn or East Point. Sherman's army must be very long indeed if they can reach thus far, and unless they can, he cannot prevent the trains which have hitherto run from Montgomery to Atlanta from communicating through the Muskogee railroad with the Macon railroad, and thus with Atlanta. The way is round- about, but it is perfectly prac