Got an order at 10 o'clock last night to be in readiness to
move at 4 o'clock a. m.; didn't start until about 6.30 o'clock a. m.; marched
up the valley towards Clifton Farm; did not rest until about three miles of it,
and probably shouldn't then had we not run onto the enemy and had a brush;
don't know the result; heard to-day Atlanta had fallen. It's glorious news! I
was detailed for picket to-night. It looks like rain.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 143
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