Slight rain in the morning. There is an ugly rumor on the streets to-day—disaster to Gen. Hood, and the fall of Atlanta. I cannot trace it...

Showery. Atlanta has fallen, and our army has retreated some thirty miles; such is Hood's dispatch, received last night. The cheerin...

Clear and warm. Gen. Lee has called for 2000 negroes (to be impressed) to work on the Petersburg fortifications. Gen. Lee has been here tw...

Rained last night; clear to-day. We hear of great rejoicing in the United States over the fall of Atlanta, and this may be premature. Pres...

Hot and dry. At 3 P. M. rained about three minutes. We are burning up. There is no war news. A rumor in the street says Atlanta has fallen...

New York City is shouting for McClellan, and there is a forced effort elsewhere to get a favorable response to the almost traitorous proceed...

CAMP OF SHERIDAN'S ARMY NEAR BERRYVILLE, VIRGINIA,  September 6, P. M., 1864.  DEAR UNCLE: — Saturday evening (September 3) my brigade a...

September 3, 1864. Rebels still here. Congratulatory order from Sherman commences, “Slocum occupied Atlanta yesterday at 11 a. m.” We c...

Moved back to B. last night. Rained. Drivers and dead-beats got scared and pulled out very quickly before we moved. In line on left of infa...

Got an order at 10 o'clock last night to be in readiness to move at 4 o'clock a. m.; didn't start until about 6.30 o'clock ...

Atlanta is ours. The rebel papers think it isn't a place of any importance after all. The boat is expected daily. I am patient until Mo...

Atlanta, Ga. , September 13, 1864. The families are fast moving South; a large wagon train goes out each day, conveying them to General...

Atlanta, Ga. , September 11, 1864. To-day being Sunday, my office is closed, and I have a little time to tell you of some of the events...

We must give up our rooms by the last of this month, and the question now arises about our future abode. We are searching hither and thithe...

These stories of our defeats in the valley fall like blows upon a dead body. Since Atlanta fell I have felt as if all were dead within me f...

The battle has been raging at Atlanta, 1 and our fate hanging in the balance. Atlanta, indeed, is gone. Well, that agony is over. Like Dav...

Summit Pt ., 7 P. M., Sept. 5, 1864. This evening in a very heavy rain our wagons came up, and I am now snugly ensconced in a tent on t...

The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta By Marc Wortman Marc Wortman hasn’t so much written a book about the siege and burning of Atla...

Davis Mill, Ga. Sept. 4, 1864 Friend Caverly: It is folly, perhaps, for me to attempt to anything in relation to our Company or Regiment whi...