The Atlanta campaign was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864. Union Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman invaded Georgia from the vicinity of Chattanooga, Tennessee, beginning in May 1864, opposed by the Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston.
Johnston's Army of Tennessee withdrew toward Atlanta in the face of successive flanking maneuvers by Sherman's group of armies. In July, the Confederate president, Jefferson Davis, replaced Johnston with the more aggressive General John Bell Hood, who began challenging the Union Army in a series of costly frontal assaults. Hood's army was eventually besieged in Atlanta and the city fell on September 2, setting the stage for Sherman's March to the Sea and hastening the end of the war.
^Further information: Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXVIII, Part 1, pages 89–114
^Further information: Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXVIII, Part 3, pages 638–675
^Effective strength of the army under Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman, during the campaign against Atlanta, Ga., 1864: Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXVIII, Part 1, pages 115–117
^Strength of the confederate forces: Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXVIII, Part 3, pages 675–683
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siege of Petersburg. Sherman's AtlantaCampaign, on the other hand, was an unqualified success. At the start of the campaign, Sherman's Military Division...
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campaign. Sherman eventually pulled out from the campaign, leaving Gen. George H. Thomas to deal with Hood, while the main army returned to Atlanta....
through the Carolinas and Atlanta to northern Georgia; the movement started on September 9. Rosecrans launched the Chickamauga Campaign in late August, staging...
time for the Chattanooga Campaign and remained with the army through the AtlantaCampaign, the Franklin-Nashville Campaign and ended the war in North...
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Sherman's Atlantacampaign of 1864. Chattanooga was a vital rail hub (with lines going north toward Nashville and Knoxville and south toward Atlanta), and...
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