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![handle is hein.slavery/sherhod0001 and id is 1 raw text is: LOYAL. PUBLIOATION SOCIETY,
863 BROADWAY.
No. 61.
SHERMAN VS. HOOD- A LOW TART, INCLINED TO BE VERY
SWEET -SOMETHING FOR DOUGLAS DEMOCRATS TO
REIEMBER-AN APPEAL TO HISTORY-WHERE GOVER-
NOR SEYMOUR GOT HIS LESSONS -ON THE CHICAGO
SURRENDER.
SHERMAN VS. HOOD.
TaE following is the reply of General Sherman to General Hood's charge
of studied and ungenerous cruelty, and which was received in Washing-
ton September 21 :
,,H]bDQUARTESS MuArpry Drvsxo or ran Mxssrssi' AND IN THE FXzU,
ATLANTA, GA., September 10, 1864.
General J. B. Hood, Commanding Army of the Tennessee, Confederate Army:
I IGmqnar-I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
this date at the hands of Messrs. Ball and Crew, consenting to the arrange-
ments I had proposed to facilitate the removal south of the people of Atlanta
who prefer to go in that direction. I enclose you a copy of my orders, which
will, I am satisfied, accomplish my purpose perfectly. You style the measures'
proposed ' unprecedented,' and appeal to the dark history of war for a par-
allel as an act of ' studied and ungenerous cruelty.' It is not unprecedented,
for General Johnston himself very wisely and properly removed the fandlies
all the way from Dalton down, and I see no reason why Atlanta should be
excepted. Nor is it necessary to appeal to the dark history of war when re-
cent and modern examples are so handy. You, yourself, burned dwelling-
houses along your parapet, and I have seen to-day fifty houses that you have
rendered uninhabitable because they stood in the way of your forts and men.
You defended Atlanta on a line so close to the town that every cannon-shot
and many musket shots from our line of investments, that overshot their
mark, went into the habitations of women and children. General Hardee
did the same at Jonesboro', and General Johnston did the same last summer
at Jackson, Miss. I have not accused you of heartless cruelty, but merely
instance these cases of very recent occurrence, and could go on and enumer-
ate hundreds of others, and challenge any fair man to judge which of us has
the heart of pity for the families of a 'brave people.' I say it is a kindness
to these families of Atlanta to remove them now at once from scenes that
women and children should not be exposed to, and the brave people should
scorn to commit their wives and children to the rude barbarians who thus,
as you say, violate the laws of war, as illustrated in the pages of its dark
history. In the name of common sense, I ask yoa not to appeal to a just
God in such a sacrilegious manner-you, who, in the midst of peace and
prosperity, have plunged a nation into civil war, 'dark and cruel war,' who
dared and badgered us to battle, insulted our flag, seized our arsenals and
forts that were left in the honorable custody of a peaceful ordnance sergeant,
seized and made prisoners of war the very garrisons sent to protect your peo-
ple against negroes and Indians, long before any overt act was committed by
h (to you) hateful Lincoln Government, tried to force Kentucky and M3is-
souri iato the rebellion in spite of themselves, falsified the vote of Louisiana,
turned loose your privateers to plunder unarmed ships, expelled Union fami-
lies by the thosand, burned their houses, and declared by act of your Con-](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/sherhod0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)