[KINGSTON, GEORGIA,
October 11, 1864]
Hood swung over against my road and broke it this side of
Marietta, and forced me to come out of Atlanta to drive him off. He sheered off
to the west, and is now below Home. I have taken position here where I can
watch him. I still hold Atlanta in strength, and have so many detachments
guarding the railroad that Hood thinks he may venture to fight me. He certainly
surpasses me in the quantity and quality of cavalry, which hangs all around and
breaks the railroad and telegraph wires every night. You can imagine what a
task I have, 138 miles of railroad, and my forces falling off very fast. I hear
some new regiments are now arriving at Nashville, and they may strengthen my
line so that I may go ahead, but Mobile or Savannah should be taken before I
venture further. I am far beyond all other columns.
SOURCE: Rachel Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The
Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between General and Senator Sherman from 1837
to 1891, p. 240
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