November 12, 1864.
The Rubicon is passed, the die is cast, and all that sort of
thing. We to-day severed our own cracker line. At 11 a. m. ours and the 17th
Corps were let loose on the railroad, the men worked with a will and before
dark the 12 miles of track between here and Marietta were destroyed. The ties
were piled and burned and the rails, after being heated red hot in the middle
were looped around trees or telegraph poles. Old destruction himself could not
have done the work better. The way the Rebels destroyed our road on their raid
was not even a fair parody on our style. The 20th Corps is at it between
Atlanta and the river, and the 14th and 23d north of Marietta. We have orders
to-night to move at 7 a. m.
SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an
Illinois Soldier, p. 318-9
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