1, 1864, Sherman forced Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood and his forces out of Atlanta. For the next two and a half months, Union troops occupied the city to prepare for the next battle campaign.

But with the incomplete success of the Virginia campaign, or an indecisive result, and, at the same time, the victory of Gen. SHERMAN's army over JOHNSTON's in Georgia, and the capture of Atlanta ...

Sherman’s plan to depopulate Atlanta of noncombatants and destroy ... Rather than a purely punitive campaign, the rebels only had to surrender and Sherman would be the first to welcome them ...

The Union victory opened the door for General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign the following year. Historians talked about the Civil War’s Chattanooga Campaign, which took place in ...

SHERMAN'S resplendent campaign has had a logical termination ... from Northern Georgia to the day they "ruined" it near Atlanta -- from the time they had it "floundering through the bogs of ...

After reaching Savannah, Sherman extended his campaign of destruction into the Carolinas. Like Atlanta, Columbia, S.C., was consumed in flames. With the march, Sherman hoped to deprive troops of ...

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the campaign that achieved in effect what the Emancipation Proclamation could only ever do on paper. Indeed, from the moment Sherman’s army shoved out of the Atlanta area in mid-November 1864 ...

Eventually, as with most of the other engagements during the Atlanta campaign, if he met heavy resistance in his path, as was the case on Cheatham Hill, Sherman would simply flank the enemy and ...

General William Tecumseh Sherman and his Union Army have brutally taken Atlanta during a hard-fought campaign, at a combined cost of nearly seventy-five thousand casualties. Scarlett O’Hara ...