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On the Battle-field; 3 miles north of Atlanta, Ga. - July 21, 1864. My dear friends: I know how glad you will be to hear of my safety, after the desperate and long-continued battle of yesterday. I think, also, it will please you greatly to learn that our noble little Regiment, by its brilliant and successful accomplishment of a very difficult and dangerous movement upon the enemy's skirmish line, entrusted to us, and on the success of which so much depended - as well as by its heroic and almost superhuman fighting against the terrible odds which, later in the day, were again and again flung upon us, so won upon the admiration of the officers and men of our division that to-day the praises of our little band are in everybody's mouth. This is not mere hyperbole or extravagance; it is literal truth; and my heart swells with honest pride when I think of it all - and