General Hardee and the Military Operations Around Atlanta.
By Colonel T. B. Roy, late of General Hardee's Staff.
[In presenting the following paper from the gallant soldier and accomplished gentleman who wrote it, it is, perhaps, proper to say again that the Southern Historical Society is not responsible for any sentiments uttered by writers in these pages. When there are points of controversy among Confederates we give impartially both sides, and leave the intelligent reader to judge for himself without comment from us.]
The publication of General Hood's book, entitled "Advance and Retreat," the wide circulation which circumstances have concurred to give it, and the fact that a new generation has grown up, unfamiliar with the matters there referred to, make it essential that certain charges and imputations therein made against General William J. Hardee should be met and refuted. Some of these matters, consisting of suggestion and opinion, and of alleged verbal communications between persons, all of whom are now dead, are difficult to deal with. This difficulty is enhanced by the lapse
