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August 1864
1	Company E spends most of August on picket duty in front
of Atlanta.
31	Federals cut the Macon and Western Railroad, Hood?s last
rail connection into Atlanta.
September 1864
1	Hood evacuates Atlanta after Sherman reaches Jonesboro, south of the city. Adams? regiment, with Baxter and Company E, march to Lovejoy?s Station.
2	Hood establishes a Confederate defense line at Lovejoy?s Station, south of Jonesboro.
2	Sherman occupies Atlanta.
4	Sherman orders civilians out of Atlanta.
25	Baxter celebrates his 17th birthday.
25	Jefferson Davis arrives at Hood?s headquarters at Palmetto, Ga.
26	Davis enthusiastically received by troops and serenaded by Twetrti&th Louisiana band.
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28	Hood crosses the Chattahoochee River to strike at
Sherman?s supply line.
28	Sherman sends Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas to Nashville to contain Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest in western Tennessee.
29	Loring?s division and Adams? brigade cross the Chattahoochee at Pumpkin Town.
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