The Battle of Atlanta and Other Campaigns, Addresses, Etc.

Download or read book The Battle of Atlanta and Other Campaigns, Addresses, Etc. written by - Grenville Dodge and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atlanta Campaign was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864. Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman invaded Georgia from the vicinity of Chattanooga, Tennessee, beginning in May 1864, opposed by the Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston. Johnston's Army of Tennessee withdrew toward Atlanta in the face of successive flanking maneuvers by Sherman's group of armies. In July, the Confederate president replaced Johnston with the more aggressive John Bell Hood, who began challenging the Union Army in a series of damaging frontal assaults. Hood's army was eventually besieged in Atlanta and the city fell on September 2, setting the stage for Sherman's March to the Sea and hastening the end of the war.