Good Morning from the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Cleveland Ohio! On this day in Civil War History. September 9, 1864: Evacuation of Atlanta From Georgia. Late advices represent that the enemy is closely massed around Atlanta, and that there is no prospect of an advance soon. In their retreat from Jonesboro, the Yankees destroyed fifteen miles of the Macon and Western railway. Our picket line now extends six miles beyond Jonesboro, with no enemy in sight except scattered parties. The following dispatch has been received from General Hood: Headquarters Army of Tennessee, September9, 1864. General Bragg: General Sherman has ordered the removal of all citizens from Atlanta, to go North or South, as they may elect, and proposes a truce for ten days to provide for the transportation of such as may desire to come South. I have accepted, and am making arrangements. J. B. Hood, General. Prisoners report that thirty thousand of Shermans troops will be mustered out of service this month, and that the term of many of them expired before the fall of Atlanta, but they were induced to remain until after that event. Sherman’s Headquarters in Atlanta (next to church)
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