| From the Augusta Constitutionalist |
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| July 20, 1864 |
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| Raid on the Georgia Road |
| About 11 o'clock Monday
morning a force of Yankee cavalry cut the Georgia Road at Decatur, six
miles from Atlanta. From this place the raiders proceeded to Stone
Mountain, nine miles from Decatur, and fifteen from Atlanta, tearing
up the track and destroying everything on the road. |
| Of the extent of the damage
sustained we have no means of learning, but are of opinion that it
must necessarily be heavy. |
| The train which left the city
yesterday for Atlanta proceeded to Congers fifteen miles this side of
Stone Mountain, but learning of the presence of the Yankees, returned. |
| It is reported and believed
that the raiders after remaining at Stone Mountain for some hours in
the occupation of their vandal pursuits, took their departure for the
Macon & Western Road, for the purpose of severing the connection
between Atlanta and Southwest Georgia, and thus cutting off supplies
from the army. What has become of the ___ thousand cavalry in the Army
of Tennessee? It is high time, that those marauding expeditions were
stopped. |
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