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Show Just History , By Albert F. Philips Today, i th anniversary of tho entrance of tha Union army, under General William Tecum!. Sherman, Sher-man, into Atlanta, th Confederal general having evacuated tha city a few days before. It was th objective ob-jective point of Oeneral Sherman's oampalgn from Chattaiiooga and waa tho city from whence h started start-ed on hla famoua march to the sea. t the outbreak of the Civil war It waa one of the moat important cities in tho Confederacy and it was used aa a depot for suppUea and a rallying place for recruits. The first battle on the approach to Atlanta was at Peach Tree creek, fought July M, 184, and then the Confederate works were InveeU ed closely by Sherman. Oa July t tha battle of Atlaniawa fought southeast of th city, when th Confederate general Hood road a fierce onslaught and bloody attack, but aa unsuccessful one, on Sherman's Sher-man's extreme left, which was under un-der command ot Oeneral James tiraay. Afci'necyon, wno wa, killed early in tha enrajement. la thl battla tha loaa waa bleary en both aide, tha-Union force, la killed, wounded and mlaalnr, as -,r,atin 10,000. whlla the Confederate Confed-erate loaa waa 15.000. .Th battla of Ears, church followed with th ra-puie ra-puie of Hood, whil. th bombardment bombard-ment of tka city waa kept up by Sherman, and later by a flank movement, compelled th, evacuation evacua-tion of Atlanta by Hood. Tha city waa occupied by Sherman September Septem-ber S, and ha remained until November No-vember IS, when ke atari ad on hi, famoua march to tha aaa, which ha, bean Immortalised In aong and tory, hi, objectlv point being rjavannah, which city h reached on Jjac ember U.- Wheel h left Atlanta At-lanta th, city waa practically wiped oft th. map by fir. On thl, treat march to th, ea tha army of Oeneral Sherman at time, atratched out A dlatanc of ixty mile. During th, march th country wa, devaatatd In th abort whlla of tha inarch, hi, army occupying oc-cupying Savannah on December 11, Juet twcntv-Mven day, after b, moved from Atlanta. Oeneral Sherman had barn mad major general In Auiruat, hi, appointment ap-pointment to tho regular army being be-ing then announced, .and oa hla reaching Savannah, congress ex. preaaed IU thank, for hi, triumphal march. On hi, march to th, sea no serious seri-ous opposition was aneounterad. although al-though everything poaalhle .wa don, to retard hi march but no body of troop could atnnd In front of the momentum and his loss during dur-ing tha march waa but too men. During tha march, th, right wing of tha army waa. commanded by Oeneral Howard, hla force being tha Fifteenth and Seventeenth ' corps, while th left wing wa, under command com-mand of OaiMral Slocum with tha Fourteenth and Twentieth corp.. Th. cavalry waa under General Kllpatrlck. Oeneral Sherman wa, a visitor ta Salt Lake In October, 1170. H, waa accompanied by hla daughter and Oeneral Beoftald and other military officers, sn routa borne from a tour of California and Oraaon. The. were here several days and mads their home at the old Town send houee. The semiannual conference of the church waa la session and one evening while be was here, the Pa rowan choir serenaded him at his hotel, staging "Hard Times Come Again No More." Oeneral 8 norma n. In a brief response, thanked the choir for the aorenado and a loo wiahed the people of UUh would live long to enjoy the homes they had created tn the wilderness and that for them "Hard Times" might corns again no mora. , la July, lite. General Vhermaa I wa promoted to be lieutenant gen-4 eral and when- General Grant was elected president, Sherman became .geaeral He retired from the army on full pay In February. ISM, and died In New Tork February 14, 1 l X great equestrian statu by Saint Gaudens of Sherman stands in Central nark. New Tork, had another an-other la Was hint con. THft RICKUM KNOINCCR. ' As the mutilated owner of the de-mo4hed de-mo4hed flivver explained It to the hospital Interne: "Oh. yes, that darned reckless sncineer aaw me coming long before I gut to the cross-inc.- and be must have heard me biow my bora, too." |