sonville. What they endured, the cruelties of the studied starvation by express order of chivalric Jeff Davis, and the horrible atrocities accorded to defenseless prisoners by the Southern opponents in this unholy, ungodly conflict, the writer will not attempt to describe; language fails in the recital. Loss: Killed, two; wounded, seven; captured, five; total fourteen.

CHAPTER XIX.

Siege of Atlanta-The Capitulation-General Sherman's Report. July 21st, heavy skirmishing on our right. 22d, we moved forward in pursuit of the retreating rebels. 23d, we are now strongly intrenched, within two miles of Atlanta, Georgia; lively skirmishing much of the time. 24th, shelling and picket firing to-day; rebels charged our line but were repulsed. 25th, brisk firing all day. 26th, advanced our line forty rods. 27th, quiet along the lines. 28th, heavy firing on our right; the rebels are repulsed. 29th and 30th, fighting continues.

August 2st to 3d, hot firing all the time. 4th, National Thanksgiving Day; fighting on our right; rebels driven back; skirmishing every day—all the time; getting monotonous. 25th, left our works and fell back to the Chattahoochie river, near Vining station; marched all night. 27th, Major-general W. H. Slocum assumed command of the Twentieth army corps.

September 4th, moved forward to Atlanta, which we reached about 2 o'clock P. M.; marched through the city and went into camp about one and one-half miles west of the city. 6th, received an order from General Sherman that the campaign was ended, and that the troops are to have a full month's rest; that our task was not only done, but well done. 12th, the citizens of Atlanta were moved south to-day; from this date we lay in camp with little to mar our happiness till November Ist, when we received orders to send all our baggage to the rear and put ourselves in light marching order.

November 5th, orders having been received for the troops to move, the Twenty-ninth struck tents and marched from Atlanta at 3:30 P. M. in the direction of Stone Mountain, some three miles, and camped for the night. At 1 o'clock P. M. on the following day, the regiment marched back to Atlanta, and again occupied its

old camp.

During the afternoon of the 1st of September specific orders for the withdrawal of Stewart's rebel corps de armee and the militia were issued, and about sunset the latter were withdrawn from the trenches. When they were fairly on the road Stewart's corps followed, all being en route by midnight, except the cavalry, a brigade or two of infantry, and the pickets. These latter remained until the advance of the Twentieth corps neared the city on the morning of the 2d. The explosion of ammunition was of course heard at the position of the Twentieth corps, and though General Slocum (who it appears was in command of the Twentieth corps at the time) had received no intelligence of Sherman's great success at Jonesboro, he was not unprepared to find Hood gone any morning, and the explosions convinced him that the withdrawal was taking place. He instantly issued orders to his division commanders, Generals Ward, Williams, and Geary, to send out each a heavy reconnoissance at daybreak on the morning of the 2d.

About 1,000 men were detailed from each division, and at 5 A. M. pushed forward on neighboring roads into Atlanta on the north and northwest, encountering no opposition. They pushed rapidly forward, and at 8 o'clock came in sight of the rebel intrenchments, so lately occupied with enemies but now silent and deserted.

Advancing rapidly, Colonel Coburn, commanding General Ward's reconnoissance, entered the enemy's

works, encountering in the suburbs Mayor Calhoun, of Atlanta, and a deputation of the city council. The former nervously presented a paper surrendering the city and asking protection. Colonel Coburn refused to receive the paper for informality, and directed that another should be drawn up. Mayor Calhoun invited several of General Ward's staff to accompany him to the courthouse, where the documents should be made en regle, promising at the same time to expel the drunken rebel stragglers, who were lingering in the streets and were disposed to skirmish with our advance. He immediately took measures to effect the last, and accompanied by the officers whose names are offered in attest, he returned to the court-house, and the following document was drawn up:

"Brigadier-general Ward, Commanding Third Division Twentieth Corps.

"SIR-The fortunes of war have placed the city of Atlanta in your hands, and as mayor of the city I ask protection to non-combatants and private property.

"JAMES M. Calhoun,

Mayor of Atlanta. ”

The preliminary formalities thus disposed of, our troops entered the city with music and flags, marching promptly and erect. A fine flag-staff was found on the Franklin printing house, where the Memphis Appeal had been printed. The stars and stripes were soon flung to the calm, sunny air amid the cheers of the brave men who had fought for so many weary, consuming days to place it there.

General Henry W. Slocum established his headquarters at the Trout house, the leading hotel of the city,

overlooking the public square. In the forts around Atlanta eleven heavy guns, mainly sixty-four pounders, were left by the enemy; also about three thousand muskets, in good order, stored in various parts of the city, were found; also three locomotives in running order, and large quantities of manufactured tobacco were discovered. Between one and two hundred stragglers, the majority of them very drunk, were fished from their hiding places and placed under guard at the court-house.

GENERAL THOMAS' CONGRATULATORY ORDER.

ARMY HEADQUARTERS, July 26, 1864. "The major-general commanding the army congratulates the troops upon the brilliant success attending the Union arms in the late battles. In the battle of the 20th instant, in which the Twentieth corps, one division of the Fourth corps, and part of the Fourteenth corps were engaged, the total union loss in killed, wounded, and missing was 1,733. In front of the Twentieth corps there were put out of the fight 6,000 rebels; 563 of the enemy were buried by our own troops, and the rebels were permitted to bury 250. The Second division of the Fourth corps repulsed seven different assaults of the enemy with light loss to themselves, and which must have swelled the number of dead buried by the rebels to beyond 300. We also captured seven stands of colors. No official report has been received of the part taken in the battle by the Fourteenth corps. In the battle of the 22d instant, the total Union loss in killed, wounded, and missing was 3,500, and also 10 pieces of artillery. The rebel loss in prisoners captured was 3,200. The known dead of the enemy in front of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth corps and one division of the Seventeenth corps was 2,142. The other divisions of the Seventeenth