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Engineers Office |
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Atlanta April 12th 1864 |
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| Col. M. H. Wright |
| Comdg. Troops & Defenses of Atlanta |
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| Colonel, |
| I have the honor to comply with the
request contained in your note of the 31st ult. |
| I beg leave to call your attention to the
accompanying sketches of "The City of Atlanta and Line of Defenses" and
plan of redoubt "with section of rifle" pits, to the former of which it
will be necessary for me to refer in this brief report. |
| The length of line marked in red is 10
2080/5280 miles. To fully man this line will require Fifty five thousand
(55,00) troops. {the remainder of the report is
not in the letter book. The report is obviously from Capt. Grant} |
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