The life and public services of Abraham Lincoln ... together with his state papers, including his speeches, addresses, messages, letters, and proclamations, and the closing scenes connected with his life and death. By Henry J. Raymond. To which are added anecdotes and personal reminiscences of President Lincoln, by Frank B. Carpenter.

STATE PAPERS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

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the Oostenaula river, and the capture without serious
opposition of Rome and Kingston, some sixty miles further on towards Atlanta. At Rome, large quantities of
provisions were captured, and large machine-shops were
destroyed. Johnston's retreat had been too rapid to
allow of his doing much damage to the railroad along
which his army was falling back towards Atlanta; and
whatever damage he was enabled to do was at once
repaired, and the railroad was put in use to supply our
armies in their advance.
The Altoona Mountains were the scene of the next
stand made by the rebels. General Sherman continued
the flanking system, and moved,towards Dallas, where,
however, he was met by the rebels, who attacked McPherson's Corps on the 28th of May, and met a disastrous
repulse, losing some two thousand five hundred killed
and wounded and eight hundred prisoners This movement having drawn the rebels from their position at the
pass of the Altoona Mountains, it was occupied and held by
our cavalry, becoming at once, as General Sherman said,
"as useful to us as it was to the enemy," and the rebels
took up a new position at Kenesaw and Lost Mountain.
Efforts were made by them, while Sherman was advancing towards this position, to interfere with his communications, and some damage was done to the railroad by
rebel cavalry, which was, however, speedily driven off.
A more discouraging affair, however, was the defeat of a
heavy expedition, which set out from Memphis under
command of General Sturges, by the rebel General Forrest, on the 10th of June. The requirements of General
Sherman's position were not, however, so great but that
he was able at once to make arrangements to repair this
disaster. Like General Grant, he was not "jostled from
his plans" by these outside mandcuvres any more than
by the direct blows of the rebel army, and by the 18th
of June, when Grant stationed himself before the 'rks
of Petersburg after his march of a hundred mil ~ and
his many battles, Sherman had arrived before th( - ebel
works at Keresaw Mountain after a similar mai; of