The Battle of Atlanta (Georgia): Major General William T. Sherman, commanding the compulsory Union Military Division of the Mississippi, defeats the Confederate (a voluntary union) Army of Tennessee, commanded by Lieutenant General John Bell Hood.
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 300.
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 182-83.
American Civil War, 1864
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