SHERMAN'S DEVASTATION IN GEORGIA. BY CAPT. A. LAWSON, LOUISVILLE, KY. I have been interested in the correspondence about General Sherman, and I give observations after my capture on November 24, 1864, and my escape on December 7, 1864 What Major Boyd had to say about Sherman is astonishing. Sherman must have hoodooed him. That any Confederate veteran would praise Sherman is incomprehensible. I was captured between Milledgeville and Augusta, Ga. I made my escape fifteen miles this side of Savannah. I saw with my own eyes the devastation made by Sherman's army. He made "a black mark to the sea." I saw ladies with children in their arms driven out of their homes, and everything they had destroyed. After I made my escape, I went back three days on Sherman's back track, and I found nothing to eat, no hogs, no cattle, no sheep, not even a chicken. Some of the finest ladies in Georgia were in abandoned camps picking up grains of corn to appease hunger who a week before had never known want.