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assured, for was not Sherman’s cavalry well out of the way, breaking a ral 'road and burning bridges at and beyond Decatur? And thus far no Yank 61,except a chance prisoner had discovered this Jacksonian march ! The morniiv-

showed us empty trenches from Bald Hill to the right of Thomas. We quic

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closed again on Atlanta , skirmishing as we went. McPherson's loft was, h<W'ever, near enough already, only a single valley lying between Blair’s posith’ 11and the outer defensive works of the city. The Sixteenth dorps (Dodge), h» v "ing sent a detachment under (Jeneral Sprague to hold Decatur, to support th 1,cavalry and take care of sundry army wagons,— a thing successfully acco” 1 'plished,—had marched, on the 21st, toward Atlanta . Dodge remained for tf“’night with head of column a mile or more in rear of Blair’s general H" 0,