Showery.
Atlanta has fallen,
and our army has retreated some thirty miles; such is Hood's dispatch, received
last night.
The cheering in
Grant's camp yesterday was over that event. We have not had sufficient
generalship and enterprise to destroy Sherman's communications.
Some 40,000
landowners, and the owners of slaves, are at their comfortable homes, or in
comfortable offices, while the poor and ignorant are relied upon to achieve
independence, and these, very naturally, disappoint the President's
expectations on momentous occasions.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel
War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
277
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