NOVEMBER 13, 1864:
General Sherman begins the Burning of Atlanta by
putting the nearby town of Marietta to the torch. While he is setting Marietta
aflame, the last civilian holdouts in Atlanta --- who Sherman did not want in
the town anyway --- are hurriedly packing a few belongings. Most of these
geegaws are left abandoned on the railway station platform when it is
discovered that the escape trains are too crowded to allow for baggage.
Father
Thomas O’Reilly of Our Lady of The Immaculate Conception wrings a last minute
concession from Sherman not to burn the town’s hospitals and houses of worship.
Sherman’s men move over Atlanta like a horde of locusts, seizing anything that
may be of use on the March, and setting the rest afire.
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