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Marshall County Republican
Plymouth, Marshall County, Indiana
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Union forces under General Sherman captured Atlanta, Georgia, after defeating Confederates at Jonesboro and forcing General Hood to evacuate the city on September 1-2, 1864. Union casualties under 1,200; Confederates suffered 300 dead, 250 wounded, and over 1,500 prisoners.
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Hood Gets Away with His Army.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN.
War Department, September 4.
To Major General Dix:
General Sherman's official report of the capture of Atlanta has just been received, dated 26 miles south of Atlanta, 6 o'clock yesterday morning. It had been detained by the breaking of the telegraph lines, as already reported.
Our army withdrew from about Atlanta, and on the 30th made a break on the East Point Road, and reached a good position from which to strike the Macon Road. Howard was on the right, near Jonesboro; Schofield on the left, near Rough and Ready. Howard found the enemy in force at Jonesboro, and intrenched his troops within half a mile of the railroad. The enemy attacked him at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and was easily repulsed, leaving his dead and wounded.
Finding strong opposition on the road, I advanced the left and center rapidly to the railroad, and made a good lodgment and broke it all the way from Rough and Ready down to Howard's left, near Jonesboro, and by the same movement interposed my whole army between Atlanta and that part of the enemy intrenched in and around Jonesboro.
At first we made a general attack on the enemy at Jonesboro, the 14th Corps, General Jefferson C. Davis, carrying the work, with ten guns and about 1,000 prisoners. The enemy retreated south, and we have followed him to his hastily constructed lines near Lovejoy's Station.
Hood finding me on the only road that could supply him, and between him and a considerable part of his army, blew up the magazine in Atlanta, and left in the night. The 20th Corps, General Slocum, took possession of the city. So Atlanta is ours, and fairly won.
Since the 5th of May we have been in one constant battle or skirmish, and we need rest.
Our losses will not exceed 1,200, and we have over 300 rebel dead, 250 wounded, and over 1,500 prisoners.
W. T. SHERMAN.
A later dispatch from Gen. Sherman, dated on the night of the 3d, at Atlanta, says: The enemy destroyed seven locomotives and eighty-one cars, loaded with ammunition, small arms, and stores, and left fourteen pieces of artillery, mostly uninjured, and a large number of small arms. Deserters are constantly coming into our lines.
E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
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Atlanta
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September 1864
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our losses will not exceed 1,200, and we have over 300 rebel dead, 250 wounded, and over 1,500 prisoners. the enemy destroyed seven locomotives and eighty-one cars, loaded with ammunition, small arms, and stores, and left fourteen pieces of artillery, mostly uninjured, and a large number of small arms.
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General Sherman's army withdrew from about Atlanta, advanced to the railroad near Jonesboro, repulsed enemy attacks, captured works with ten guns and about 1,000 prisoners, interposed between Atlanta and part of the enemy army. Hood blew up the magazine in Atlanta and evacuated at night; the 20th Corps took possession of the city.