He attacked Allatoona, but was repulsed.

We have plenty of bread and meat, but forage is scarce.

I want to destroy all the road below Chattanooga, including Atlanta, and to make for the sea-coast.

We cannot defend this long line of road.
And on the same day I telegraphed to General Grant, at City Point: It will be a physical impossibility to protect the roads, now that Hood, Forrest, Wheeler, and the whole batch of devils, are turned loose without home or habitation.

I think Hood's movements indicate a diversion to the end of the Selma & Talladega road, at Blue Mountain, about sixty miles southwest of Rome, from which he will threaten Kingston, Bridgeport, and Decatur, Alabama.