655 Series I Volume XXXVIII-V Serial 76 - The Atlanta Campaign Part V
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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE,
August 24, 1864.Major-General SHERMAN:
A fire seems to be raging in Atlanta, direction 10 degrees south of east from my tree. Can see heated air rising in dense column; seems to be spreading; town is filled with smoke. I have directed my heavy guns to fire on the town.
O. O. HOWARD,
Major-General.
HOWARD'S HEADQUARTERS,
August 24, 1864.
Major-General SHERMAN:
3.30 p. m. - Fire reported spreading in Atlanta. 4 p. m. - It broke out in rear of large block. Eighteen box and one passenger cars arrived, empty.
O. O. HOWARD,
Major-General.
HOWARD'S HEADQUARTERS,
August 24, 1864.
General SHERMAN:
Signal report 6 p. m. says: A train of eight freight-cars, loaded with boxes, bundles of goods, and other articles, just left Atlanta; about forty men on the train. The fire is still burning and spreading.
O. O. HOWARD,
Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND,
August 24, 1864.Major-General HOWARD:
The road past Utoy Creek will not be used by me after Friday morning. I will park my trains as far to the right rear of the Fourteenth Army Corps as it will be safe.
GEO. H. THOMAS,
Major-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding.
HOWARD'S HEADQUARTERS,
August 24, 1864.
Major-General THOMAS:
I meant Utoy Place, not creek. I wish to know if I can march a column via Utoy or Kennedy's house without interfering with you or Schofield, and I wish to park my trains a little nearer the Chattahoochee than yourself.
O. O. HOWARD,
Major-General.
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