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"Sherman occupied Atlanta two months; then, restless and eager for action, he set the city on fire and started out on his terrible march to l Savannah. 'Behind us,' writes of his morning of departure, in a Ivrical mood rather rare with him, 'lay Atlanta, smouldering and in ruins, the black smoke rising high in the air, and hanging like a pall over the ruined city.' The soldiers sang John Brown's Body. "