Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, July 9, 1864

The rebels left their rifle pits in the night and crossed the Chattahoochee river.¹

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¹ General Sherman always moved his army by the right or left flank when he found the Confederate fortifications in front too strong to make a charge, and in that way the enemy had to fall back, leaving their strong position. — A. G. D.

Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 204