The New York herald., 1864-12-22

mandinR, viii receive special orders from the Commano'
Paragraph ILL., relates 20 the position the line OF the
ambuances aud wagons.
w: The army win forage literally on the country dur
ing the march. To this end each brigade commander
vii, organize good and efficient foragins party, under
route travelled forage Of kind, meat
Of kind vegetables corn meal or whatever needed
by the commsnd: aiming ~ all times 10 Keep IN the
wagons Al least Ten days provisions for the command
and three days forage. Soldiers must not enter the
ns 90 M nv TO
drive stock 10 ssAi q .hsrosnp ICrseusr for.sing
parties must be entrusted tho gathering Of provionS
and forage - any distance from the road travelled
v. To army corps commanders alone 10 entrusted the
power TO destroy mills houses cotton gins, &C., and for
them this general priocipe s laid downIn districts
and neehborhoods where the army ID unmolestod NO
should gueriIas or bushwhscksrs moest our march,
should the inhabitants burn bridges obstruct roads, or
should order and enforce . devastation less
relentless according to the measure Of such hostility
VI As for horees mules, wagons &c, belonging TO tho
inhabitants the cavalry and artillery may appropriate
freely and without limit. discriminating, however, be-
txsen tho rich, who generally hostile, and the poor
Industrious. usually neutral or friendly ForagiDg
parties may take horses replace the aded
animals Of their trains or TO pack mules for tho
regiments brigadss. In all forssiug, OF whatever
KIND tho parties VIII refrain from abusive threatening
language and may, when the officers In command think
proper give cer1ases Of the sc Sus no rse.p,s and
By order 'o' Of Major General ". T. SHERMAN.
ATLANTA FIRE.
snow negress night solemn down. upon the city,
and the flames spread from the public buildings and
the depot that bad been fired the whole heavens
became illuminated by the lurid glare, while the
uuexploded shells In the dwellings and storshouses
became heated and as they exploded IN rapid succession
almost imagined that the OF August last,
hundred thousand confronted the strong
hold, were being re.enacted.
Standing upon . emineuce overlooking tho doomed
city, mad excellent view Of the conag and
never had behed grand sight Az night waned the
gentle breezes carried the destroying element from house
70 house, and block to block. until onena OF the rebel
city In flames the glare VIII ch brgh. that
the soldiers mile distant read their last letters from
home by the light Next morning rode over the city
among the ruins where nothing remained tell the
but tottering walls and backened chimueys, that lko
gravesones stood there monuments OF departed glory
on AGAIN.
On the morning OF the 10TH at daylight the whole army
once more took up the line OF march-the Seventeenth
corps tho McDonough road, tho fourteenth
on the Augusta road running parallel with the
rsilroad), with tho Twepeth the left and the FIJI
teeotn tho right TANKS. accompanied the column
OF the Fourteenth corps, which passed through
catur, and the same evening encamped In Lithonia-a
small town twenty miles southeast or Atlsnta-wthout
encouutering any enemy.
On the nth the march resumed at daylight,
through q country tecming in stock vegetables and
grain, that found 10 abundance all tho large
plantations that lined the TINS part OF tho State
gives evidence OF wealth and prosperity and wo
moved further into tho interior ths works OF wars raw
ages became less frelueut
TIE COUNTRY |
quite open, well wstereJ, good roads and delightful
,mate. About half past nine O'Clock In tho morning.
coSYrRs, |
town OF about rve hundred inhabitants, was reach,
"a, but no halt was made, aud the troops oou. |
iDued the march without iuterrupting thu citizens.
vno ncked IN large numbers 70 tho dsors and |
windows to SEQ ,hs long expected and r1uch |
cared Ysprces, and isien 10 tho music OF \ sooro |
I bands that gave forth their martial sirsns Only ono
nso 10 the town. AN ths others bad "reru.
ced" tna ebony children ctssacay expressed them.
elves. rebol lieutenant, named ra.is A. Middleton,
scted provost marshal a. that place. left worry
urrodyI forgetting 70 call at the post office tor several
r,err. ~hicn taken possession ey aid Dc camp
nd turned 70 Cenc al shcrman for eSsmnstion
no disclosed tho TACT that the Georgia militia
ompaussd Hood FAR Gadsico, Ala, wnen Governor
'rosn ordered them back sne state, where thev ar
iyed tho Cd, after march OF nearly Gyo nuodrea
niles,
Oae oc the letters q worth producing hero.--
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N1~reovwer August 10 1870
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