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~ i----~ ------TBYINQ TlUIS.I During the operations on tlie sxtreme right,I mainly confined tu Gen. Hascall, his command I has done hard work, laboring night and day. The 1 recent imnetnMis assaults on our flanks hare led our commanders to iho exerciso of extreme cau-I tion, and whenever a point ol importance 1s gniti-I ed it ia at orrre fortified- In this manner till* di-I vision has built, during tho last five days, nine I tinea of works. These lines are each nea ly hatf o mile m length ; and, when this is known, the amount of labor doua during these liol, sultry August days may be imagined. This, it mint be remembered, is in addition to the, usual duties,I picket, guarding, and the thousand and one other duties for which a soldier is accountable.J THX WEATHERHere is all that con Id bo ox pec ted during this I mouth. While the journal* and letters from'‘God's I country1* complain of the great drouth, wo arc I having copious showers of rain, and terra firma I ia not parched and heated to send its heat as an additional trial for our soldiers. During the last three days it has mined almost continually, and I the roads are not in any ol the beat order.I * TIIE COUNTRY1 We are now operating in is south of Atlanta, and I m ar East Point, and ia more open ami fertile I than any we have fought for since the crossing of I the Ktowah. litiore us now. as far as the eve I can reach, arc fmt’dc valleys, v*l»h occasional I groups of fruit trees, and for some distance to the south and east the rebel wotks can be eeen. a I The fortifications of East Point can be seen- The o 1 ground is favorable for the peculiar kind of war-t f fare that lias been prosecuted in Georgia. For e j *i me distance about here, huge ill-shaped bokl-v l « . jiM.iiirfo hum il.c earth, ah though some vio-. | . t uni r aval had forced them Irom their bed i- j i. i ;tho upper world.
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New York Times
New York, New York, US
Sun, Aug 21, 1864
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