| From the Galveston News |
| August 17, 1864 |
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| Atlanta |
| A correspondent of the
Mobile Advertiser, writing from Atlanta on the 11th of
July, gives the following description of that place: |
| "I can give you no
idea of the excitement in Atlanta.
Everybody seems to be hurrying off, and especially the women.
Wagons, loaded with household furniture, and everything else
that can be packed upon them, crowd every street, and women, old and
young, and children innumerable, are hurrying to and fro, leading pet
lambs, deer and other little household objects of affection, as though
they intended to save all they could.
Every train of cars is loaded to its utmost capacity, and there
is no grumbling about seats, for even the fair ones are but too glad
to get even a standing place in a box car.
The excitement beats anything I ever saw, and I hope I may
never witness such again. But
in the midst of all this, the soldiers are cool, and cheerful, and
sanguine." |
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