by John Beauchamp Jones
SEPTEMBER 4TH.—Showery.
Atlanta has fallen, and our army has retreated some thirty miles; such is Hood’s dispatch, received last night.
The cheering in Grant’s camp yesterday was over that event. We have not had sufficient generalship and enterprise to destroySherman’s communications.
Some 40,000 landowners, and the owners of slaves, are at their comfortable homes, or in comfortable offices, while the poor and ignorant are relied upon to achieve independence and these, very naturally, disappoint the President’s expectations on momentous occasions.
