A Picture of the Desolated States, and the Work of Restoration. 1865-1868
CHAPTER LXIII.—IN AND ABOUT ATLANTA.
Closing Battles of the War.—The Yankees at West Point.—Foggy Night at Atlanta.—City by Daylight.—Colored Soldier’s Widow.—Property Destroyed.—Religion a Nuisance.—Rebuilding.—Rents.—White and Black Refugees.—Accounts by Citizens.—Negro’s Horse.—Jesse Wade, the Poor White; on Sherman’s Strategy; on Schools; on Reconstruction.—Nigger _versus_ White Man.—Out-door Convention of Freed People.—Georgia Railroads and Banks. 452