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Article: From Our Archives; Abridged from the Lancaster Intelligencer, Sept. 22, 1864
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- Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
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- September 22, 2003
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Our Army Correspondence.
IN CAMP NEAR ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, Sept. 9, 1864,
Editors Intelligencer:
I am pleased to be able to state to you our whereabouts and the
success of our ever victorious army, which I believe has at last
accomplished its point and ended one of the grandest campaigns of
this war. We left our old position, in front of Atlanta, on the
evening of Aug. 25th, and made tracks to the right, coming in contact
with the Montgomery Railroad, which point we struck some thirteen
miles from Atlanta, we gave the enemy a complete whipping and in such
a manner that it will be unable to be reorganized this fall for duty.
We then beat a retreat for the Macon Road. -- Here we found a small ...