SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS No. 70.
HDQRS. MIL. DIV. OF THE
MISS.,
In the Field,
Atlanta, Ga.,
September 10,
1864.
I. Pursuant to an agreement between General J. B. Hood,
commanding the Confederate forces in Georgia, and Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman,
commanding this army, a truce is hereby declared to exist from daylight of
Monday, September 12, until daylight of Thursday, September 22, being ten full
days, at the point on the Macon railroad known as Rough and Ready, and the
country round about for a circle of two miles' radius, together with the roads
leading to and from in the direction of Atlanta and Lovejoy's Station,
respectively, for the purpose of affording the people of Atlanta a safe means
of removal to points south.
II. The chief quartermaster at Atlanta, Colonel Easton, will
afford all the people of Atlanta who elect to go south all the facilities he
can spare to remove them comfortably and safely, with their effects, to Rough
and Ready, using cars and wagons and ambulances for that purpose, and
commanders of regiments and brigades may use their regimental and staff teams
to carry out the object of this order, the whole to cease after Wednesday, the
21st instant.
III. Major-General Thomas will cause a guard to be
established on the road, out beyond the camp-ground, with orders to allow all
wagons and vehicles to pass that are manifestly used for this purpose without
undue search, and Major-General Howard will send a guard of 100 men, with a
field officer in command, to take post at Rough and Ready during the truce,
with orders, in concert with a guard of like size from the Confederate army, to
maintain the most perfect order in that vicinity during the transfer of these
families. A white flag will be displayed during the truce, and the guard will
cause all wagons to leave at 4 p.m. of Wednesday, the 21st, and the guard to
withdraw at dark, the truce to terminate the next morning.
By order of Maj. Gen.
W. T. Sherman:
L. M. DAYTON,
Aide-de-Camp.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 3,
Part 2 (Serial No. 78), p. 356-7
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