ATLANTA, GA., September 17, 1864 — 8 a.m.
(Received 1.50 a.m. 18th.)
Major-General
HALLECK.
Chief of Staff:
My report is done
and copied. Many of the subordinate reports are also ready, and I could send
them forward to-day, but as I expect a special messenger from General Grant
every hour, who will return, I will await his arrival, and avail myself of his
return to send on the reports. All well. Troops in fine health, but are
unusually anxious about paymasters and the draft. Mr. Stanton tells me the
draft will be made on Monday next. If Mr. Lincoln modifies it to the extent of
one man, or wavers in its execution, he is gone. Even the army would vote
against him. Atlanta is pretty well cleared out of the families, so that source
of trouble is disposed of. Now, I will build some strong interior redoubts, and then, I suppose, for Augusta?
W. T. SHERMAN,
Major-General.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
39, Part 2 (Serial No. 78), p. 396
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