Wars and Battles
Atlanta Campaign
1864
In the spring of 1864, while Grant was in The Wilderness, William T. Sherman and 90,000 Union soldiers moved southward from Chattanooga toward Atlanta. A smaller Confederate force, about 60,000 men, was under the command of Joseph E. Johnston. Their role was to slow the Union advance and to try to disrupt the lines of supply as Sherman went farther into Southern territory. Southern leaders were acutely aware of war weariness in the North. Their hope was to prolong the conflict into the fall and hope that Abraham Lincoln would be defeated in the Election of 1864. Anyone, it was thought, would offer more hope to the South than Lincoln. 
Johnston and Sherman engaged one another in a series of minor battles with the Confederates always managing to escape the full force of the Union army. The most significant battle occurred at Kennesaw Mountain in June 1864, a Confederate victory. Nevertheless, Jefferson Davis concluded that Johnston was too cautious and replaced him with John B. Hood. Hood’s more aggressive efforts were not successful and the Confederate force retreated into the city of Atlanta. Sherman prepared a siege and sped matters along by cutting off railroad traffic into the city. Hood evacuated Atlanta; Sherman occupied it on September 2, 1864. The fall of Atlanta was an event widely reported in the North and it played prominently in the reelection of Lincoln later that fall.
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1864)First weeks of the Atlanta Campaign, including the battles of Dalton and ResacaAcross the Dallas Road - Civil War in West GeorgiaThe story of the men and rugged terrain that shaped two weeks of fighting in late May, 1864. RetAtlanta Campaign, including the battles of Dalton and ResacaAcross the Dallas Road - Civil War in West GeorgiaThe story of the men and rugged terrain that shaped two weeks of fighting in late May, 1864. Return to Index ...
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Prelude The Atlanta Campaign, May - Sept, 1864
Their only similarity is that they were fought in Georgia.The Atlanta Campaign was a series of battles whose stated intent was to destroy the Army of Tennessee. The March to the Sea was a 6 week romp beginning in Kingston, Georgia in Atlanta Campaign was a series of battles whose stated intent was to destroy the Army of Tennessee. The March to the Sea was a 6 week romp beginning in Kingston, Georgia in November, 1864.
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John Bell Hood, Confederate General at Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Atlanta Campaign, Nashville Campaign
... failed to attack Sherman as ordered, and in early May of 1864 Sherman began the Atlanta Campaign. Johnston's Army of Tennessee fought defensive battles against the Federals at the approaches to Dalton, which was evacuated on May Atlanta Campaign. Johnston's Army of Tennessee fought defensive battles against the Federals at the approaches to Dalton, which was evacuated on May 13, and then ...
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