The New York herald., 1864-12-08
TaE DEVASTATION or GEORGIA.
Atlanta te#&#
ATLANTA As ABANDONED BY sHsRNAN--THE REBELS
AGAIN IN POSSESSION.
Correspondence OF the Memphis Appeal.l

Atlanta. et
ATLANTA As ABANDONED BY sHsRNAN--THE REBELS
AGAIN IN POSSESSION.
E. Correspondence OF the Memphis Appe1l.l
ATLANTA, Ca, Nov. 20. 1884
You have heard before this Chat the federals have
burned evacuated Atlanta but for Information OF the
refugees and axes who have been driven from their
homes aiiow me 70 trouble Won with few lines as @ al
spared by the vsndal hands There s not house stand
Ing Whitehall street from Rovarks corner TO Wesley
hapel Peachtree street. and on Marietta from the
rtreet runnng from the BAPTIST church, down Decatur
street short distance below Colonel Cowars building,
on Decatur street Az the railroad depois burned,
Including the passenger depot All tho hotels onpdres,
railroad shors government works and mills are burned
AS came into tho city ON ast evening observed only
three buildings OF note standing west OF the Macon
roadCoonel Colyer's, Hammock's and nr Sells 7. NJ.
Clerks house n the only building standing between
Peters street and the railroad Col Poera house and
the houses south OF are sanding All the houses on
Marietta street are burned except short space from Dr.
Poeeils to Robnsons hnrse, opposite the Stste depot
Except Norcross Mills, r. nesp's and b. o. Jones' no
honscs burned feachLrec street beyond Wesley
chapel Inmans, Holhrook's L,udale'e and Nox's build
ugs are burned Colonel Glenns and Ransons dwellings
are not burned.
bnsned also Colonel Gaitrels house. The jail Is burned
and all tie buildings between that and the Fair Ground.
street one of which is Mrs. Rucsers the house adcn-
ng and just above VIM. Watkins 10 burned: the Female
College was pulled down TO put up . fort on the spot
Engine houses Nos and unhurt, also the Masotio
and City HalIs the city Hall saved by the appeals
and petitions Of Mrs. Folcombc, who lives only few
steps from IT, The churches are ali unnurt excepthe now
Episcopal ard PAINS churches. Most all OF the residences ia
The city have been that unoccuped Just think
OF Il city four months ago with population o. twenty
thopeand now about six hundred and seventy.nve or
eighty men-tbe bal nee women end children There ore
balance have ali been sent North They have burned ali
the fencing around the csmetery ard most OF tho pa, ns
around the graves and bnrsted opsn the vault belonsng
Mr. Gordon containing tho remains OF his wife aud The
bodies OF three four other persons looking for gold and
other vauabes that they supposed had been bid 10 the
Among the old citizens remaining Drs. +. NJ Calhoun
Davigna, Pat Lynch Bill Harvile, J. Bartlett ana
cal College from the nsmes Mark Bells calico house IL
unhurt The citizens say that the Yankee left bore
southern conedsrsey and plant their coors upon ,hs
walls OF Savannah great many OF their soldiers are
said 70 hay: s nsIs .n dss !. inc o.
went of in bandcufs they have sornc fears OF meeting
with Generals Lee or BeaureRard Their teams or trans
fully T. A. RiCR
psso,Arros MARKING sHEsxAS's TRACK.
fFren the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel, Dec. IL
Gentlemen from sherman's stats that bis line OF
march s marked bydsad animals, broken wagons, bodies
Ysserdsy moinns The train on the Georgia railroad
brought down about one hundred prisoners, who were
said TO hsye been captured somewhere In the neghoor'
They are supposed to be portion Of sbcrman's army
that had stragsed away from the main body and fell 40
they we're ali hearty looking men.
Tho trains run ~ on the Georgia road " Gar as
Inc work Of repairing ,bs road 70 Atlanta viii bc CON-
menced soon ss practicable
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appropriated too oGscnd Aorsss and msies In Gss
cock aud Warren counties.
BURNING or Emory COLLEGE, exYoRr.
From the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel, Nov. 80
gentcman from Newton county states that sreral ?,
ne largest plontators tn hat section cers compton,
ds,reysd BY the fedsrals, swept clean o. everything
and all the houses thereon burned except these occupied
by negroes.
Emory college, Oxford was also destroyed, and all the
budinge connected with tho same together With thel
conenis This college the property Of the Methodist
Churcn Of this state Several fine libraries esonsng y
the various college societies besides the one belonging
the college tsel among the property burned Asf
large and extensive mineralogical cabnes hne ohemca
apparatus. 10.
the federsis approached the down they were Cred
upon and one o. their party killed. The college wal
mis ss,lms,sd shas shs property cost nearly half
million before The war
DETAILS OF rms MAncn TO NrtLRD0xvrLLr.
(Correepondence of the Augusta CoustltutionaistJ
Nt4 IN FfKrD, Nov. ~, 1904.
while In MiedeevIile. Sherman made bis head err
~ she Executive mansion Our toformant saw ana VA
sAseOhssd by Gsusga Jsa. pAvsa and KiinAirnk Tn'