Compulsory Union Major General William T. Sherman, commanding the Military Division of the Mississippi, begins the Atlanta Campaign against the Confederate (a voluntary union) Army of Tennessee, commanded by Major General Joseph E. Johnston.
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 297.
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