W. H. D. Rouse
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Aug
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and thus proved fatal to the army at atlanta wheeler's departure led sherman to send out a third cavalry expedition commanded by brigadier general judson kilpatrick the northerners reached the railroads below atlanta and on august eighteen twenty succeeded in tearing up sections of the track on the twentieth they were driven away kilpatrick reported to sherman that the railroad had been so thoroughly wrecked that it would take at least ten days to repair it
however on the following day the federals saw trains bring supplies into the city from the south clearly the northern cavalry was not strong enough to destroy hood's lines of supply new plans would have to be tried if the unionists were to capture atlanta
meanwhile a curious kind of optimism was developing in the southern ranks many confederates did not see the hard battles of late july as defeats rather they viewed them as successful efforts to halt the progress of flanking columns that had threatened the city's lines of supply one officer wrote on august fourth about the battles of atlanta and ezra church general hood watches his flanks closely and has twice whipped the flanking columns
when sherman made no new efforts to flank the city and when the northern cavalry raids were beaten off one after another many men came to believe that atlanta had been saved in mid-august a texan informed his home folk that affairs are brightening here people and army seem more confident of success
at about the same time a mississippian wrote that the enemy seems checked in his flanking operations on our left as he has made no progress in that direction for the last four or five days on august twenty eighth an alabamian wrote his wife that it required hard fighting to check the enemy here after having pursued us so far
At the very end of August, there came exciting news for the Southerners.
Sherman had fallen back.
The Northerners were gone from in front of Atlanta.
Many thought Wheeler's cavalry had cut off Sherman's supplies and that this had forced the Federal commander to lift the siege.
Joyous Confederates swarmed out of the city to romp over the abandoned northern trenches.
The scales have turned in favor of the South, wrote Captain Thomas J. Key of Arkansas in
and the abolitionists are moving to the rear johnsboro some southerners suspected in eighteen sixty four what we now know sherman had not retreated rather he had concluded that only his infantry could effectively break hood's lines of supply and had resolved to move almost all of his forces to the southwest of the city the movement began on august twenty five
One Corps was sent back to the Chattahoochee Bridgehead to guard the railroad that connected Sherman with the North.
The remaining Federal troops pulled out of their trenches and marched away to the west and south.
By noon on the 28th, Howard's Army of the Tennessee had reached Fairburn, a small station on the Atlanta and West Point Railroad, 13 miles southwest of East Point.
Later that afternoon, Thomas troops occupied Red Oak,
on the railroad five miles to the northeast.
The northerners spent the rest of the 28th and the 29th destroying the tracks.
The rails were torn up, heated, and twisted so that they were useless.
Only one railroad, the Macon and Western, running southeast from East Point to Macon, now remained in Confederate hands.
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