Excerpt from Some Side Lights on the War for the Union: Paper Read Before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion at Cleveland, Ohio, October 9, 1912 Remember that Sherman's way of flanking Hood out of Atlanta was by taking a brigade or Division at a time from the extreme left and mov ing it behind out lines to the extreme right, paralleling Hood's railroad at the rear of his army. It is easy to see that Sherman thus gained the full benefit of his larger force by stretching the line of the enemy to the breaking point - and the breaking point was necessarily Atlanta, after we [the cavalry] had destroyed the eastern railroad at Covington and Decatur. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.