CHAPTER XX.
ATLANTA AND AFTER--PURSUIT OF HOOD.
SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, 1864.
By the middle of September, matters and things had settled down in Atlanta, so that we felt perfectly at home.

The telegraph and railroads were repaired, and we had uninterrupted communication to the rear.

The trains arrived with regularity and dispatch, and brought us ample supplies.

General Wheeler had been driven out of Middle Tennessee, escaping south across the Tennessee River at Bainbridge; and things looked as though we were to have a period of repose.
One day, two citizens, Messrs.

Hill and Foster, came into our lines at Decatur, and were sent to my headquarters.