Atlanta, Ga., September 6, 1864.
I take my first opportunity to write you a few words. Our
corps came in here on the 2d and took possession. Colonel Coggswell was put in
command of the post by General Slocum, with two regiments besides his own for
guard. I was appointed Provost Marshal of the city, and have been overrun with
business ever since. I have an office in the City Hall and quarters in an
elegant house near by. Our corps and the Fourteenth are to occupy the defences
of the city, General Slocum commanding. You can imagine my hands are full of
work, being “Mayor” and answerer of all questions to the citizens of a
good-sized city, besides having to look after cotton, tobacco, and other
valuable stores, and arrest all marauders. However, I have got the thing in running
order now, and, with my two assistants and their clerks, shall get along very
well.
We shall be here a month or two, probably. Sherman and
Thomas will make their headquarters here in a few days.
SOURCE: Charles Fessenden Morse, Letters Written
During the Civil War, 1861-1865, p. 187-8
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