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Fair, they do in hospitals but the boy's in ditches never 

 g-et our rotten teeth filled. Our position here is same as 

 when I last wrote excepting our position on the right has 

 been extended to the right some distance we have been 

 very quiet in our 4th AC but we have good prospects of 

 a mo\^^e now which I suppose udll come of tonight. George 

 Goodner I have not seen. I must close love to family and 

 friends as ever 



Your Brother Roe 



XVI. 



Dear Brother & Family 

 Headquarters 80th 111 Vol Camp near Atlanta Ga Sept 



18th 1864 



I received your letter of Sept 5 on yesterday evening. It 

 finds me camped quietly with the remainder of Genrl 

 Shermans grand army around the captured city of At- 

 lanta. My last was written on the 25th and on that night 

 Grn'l Shermans army marched from their ditches swing- 

 ing around the west side of Atlanta, all excepting the 

 20th AC which fell back to the river, there to guard our 

 cracker line. We marched till tAvo oclock that night, then 

 bivouaced for the night. Next morning the 26th, the rebels 

 found the Yankees gone and immediately reported to Reb- 

 eldom that the Yankees had been compelled to raise the 

 siege of Atlanta and fall back for grub and to protect 

 our communicationwhcih Gen'l Forrest was then making 

 grand havoc A\ith. And also, we had detached one corps 

 to threaten their communication which Gen'l Hood had 

 sent two corps to gobble it in. Upon the strength of all 

 this good news, all the rebel ladies south came upon their 

 trains with their baskets of sanitary to give food and 

 army a picnic. Now I shall return to the Yankee army 

 and show you what they were doing. 



Marched 10 miles, skirmished a little in our rear during 

 the day. On the 27th marched five miles, had plenty of 

 green corn and sheep meat to eat. My regt was on picket 

 duty that night but found very little opposition to our 

 advance. On the 28th made the Montgomery railroad five 

 miles below Rough & Ready and ten below Atlanta. This 

 we destroyed by tearing it up and making two piles of ties 



