124-6

Updated: May 2, 2025

If they want peace, they and their relations must stop the war." On pages 124-6 appears the correspondence of General Sherman with the mayor and councilmen of Atlanta concerning the removal of citizens, in which the latter write: "We petition you to reconsider the order requiring them to leave Atlanta. It will involve in the aggregate consequences appalling and heartrending.

Richard Taylor - Destruction and Reconstruction:: Personal Experiences of the Late War