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In the Field - 26 Miles South of Atlanta - September 5th 1864. My dear friends - This is the earliest opportunity which, since the battle of the 1st instant, I have had to assure you of my safety. Before you receive this note you will have learned from the journals all about our retirement from the front of the city - our rapid manouvre to the right - the puzzled uncertainty of the Rebels as to whether we intended to retreat across the Chattahoochee or swing away from the city to the far right - the magnificent strategy of Sherman, completely out thinking his antagonist - the sudden blow upon the Macon Railroad, which, struck unawares and as with a wedge, served to open it for the occupancy of our own and the 23rd Corps - the complete destruction of that part of it over which we passed, and finally the attack of the 1st instant, in which we, acting on