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I have before me a map of "The Battle of Atlanta," as this action is called by Federal writers, prepared by General Hickenlooper (McPherson's Chief of Artillery) and attached to the proceedings of "The Army of the Tennessee" (Federal) for 1878. This map gives the position of their forces on the 22d of July, and among other things shows that the Fifteenth corps, fronting Atlanta, extended two division lengths south of the Decatur road, and the Seventeenth corps, on the left of the Fifteenth, extended south over and beyond the McDonough road. General McPherson was killed