Historians and others who have written of the Battle of Atlanta have been misled by being governed in their data by the first dispatches of General Sherman, who was evidently misinformed, as he afterwards corrected his dispatches.
Dodge critiques the reliability of historical accounts regarding the Battle of Atlanta, emphasizing the impact of misinformation.
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The national honor never has, never can, and never will be protected by such methods.
The right side is beginning to get a hearing, and when the facts and causes for the action of the Army are generally known, it will be found that our Army is as humane and well-behaved a body of troops as ever went into a foreign country…
It is the duty of every companion here, as well as of every good citizen, to enter his protest against these unjust attacks.
Have you, or any one else, ever heard a single word of protest from these people or any one connected with them against the revolting cruelties of the enemy in the Philippines?
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