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THE STRUGGLE FOR ATLANTA

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trusted me, and I was content. Of General Logan, who has so recently g° T1 °from us, I wrote, after this battle:

“ Major-General Logan was spirited and energetic, going at once to the point where lie app r<! 'tended the slightest danger of the enemy’s success. His decision and resolution animated a 7 "encouraged his officers and men to hold on at all hazards.”

For a month Hood kept to a defensive attitude, and, like a long storm, th (siege operations set in. Sherman worked his right, with block after blodoeastward and southward. Schofield and part of Thomas's command by-passed beyond me, digging as they halted. Every new trench found a freshone opposite. The linos were near together. Many officers and men wci ( '