Atlanta, Ga., September 13,
1864.
The families are fast moving South; a large wagon train goes out each
day, conveying them to General Hood's lines. The family in whose house our
rooms are, is going North; I wish they were going to stay, so that we might
continue to enjoy the nice beds and furniture. However, we shall have our
balcony left, on which we spend our evenings. It is quite a place of resort for
the staff officers and others in town who call on us, especially as our brigade
band, or the Thirty-third Massachusetts', plays in front of the house almost
every night. I enclose some pieces of a rebel flag which was captured here and
presented to me; they will answer as a memento of our entrance into the city.
General Sherman told an officer of our corps that the reason he left the Twentieth
Corps behind was because he knew he was going to take Atlanta by this last
movement, and he wanted the corps which had done the hardest fighting and the
hardest work of the campaign to have the honor of entering the city first; I
believe this is honest, for there is very little humbug about General Sherman.
SOURCE: Charles Fessenden Morse, Letters Written
During the Civil War, 1861-1865, p. 190-1
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