The Battle of Jonesborough (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 brevet General John Bell Hood.

       [restored 4/15/2022]

Subsequent Events:

9/18/1864                   11/9/1864                 

References:

Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 183.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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