News from Atlanta
conflicting; papers, so far as we know, admit the repulse of Hood, then claim a
victory. Later statements rather choke victorious editors. Hood feels compelled
to fight and not leave the town. Sherman intends to give him the whipping
Johnston has all summer been running away from, if he makes the stand.
My complaints are
unabated; are attended with weakening pains which at times prostrate me.
Rations irregular; often missing a day or two.
SOURCE: John Worrell Northrop, Chronicles from the Diary of a War Prisoner in Andersonville and Other Military Prisons of the South in 1864, p. 94
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