OFFICIAL BULLETIN: FROM GEN. SHERMAN’S ARMY; His Second Position at Atlanta (9/11/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 9/11/1864

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[OFFICIAL.]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10-9 P.M.

Maj.-Gen. Dix:

This department has received dispatches from Gen. SHERMAN down to 10 o'clock yesterday morning. His army is concentrated at Atlanta, his troops in position and well. He says WILSON and STEADMAN are stirring WHEELER up pretty well, and hopes they will make an end of him as GILLEM did of MORGAN. The weather is beautiful and all things bright.

No recent intelligence has been received from Mobile.

No movements are reported in the Shenandoah Valley, or in the Army of the Potomac.

Recruiting is progressing vigorously in most of the States.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

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The American Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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Official Bulletin: From Gen. Sherman’s Army – 2
Gen. Grant’s Army: Ominous Quiet – 2
From New-Orleans: Arrival of the Evening Star – 2-3
Gen. Sherman’s Army: The First Steps in the Great Flanking Movement – 3
Details of Wheeler’s Operations: The Rebel Gen. Kelly Killed – 3-4
Gen. A.J. Smith’s Troops: Order Countermanded – 4
Skillful Surgery in Sherman’s Army – 4
From the South: Latest Political and Military Views of the Rebels – 4-7
The Indian War: From the Upper Missouri – 7
News from Washington – 7-8
Editorial: An Armistice – 8
The Oratorio of the Creation-Further Postponement – 8
The Late Capt. E.P. Brownson – 8
Trouble in Kentucky: Gov. Bramlette Provoking a Conflict with the Military Authorities – 8
Philadelphia Stock Board – 8

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This is a minor double whammy for me. I'm sitting here in Marietta where I can see Kennesaw Mountain from the Big Chicken, remembering that my Great Grandfather fought in the Battle of Peachtree Creek with the 29th Alabama where they were decimated with less than 90 surrendering, out of the original strength of a 1000, on April 26, 1865 in North Carolina. My GGFather was an NCO that mustered out as a brevet captain because there were no officers left alive.