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On September 4, General Sherman issued Special Field Order #64. General Sherman announced to his troops that "The army having accomplished its undertaking in the complete reduction and occupation of Atlanta will occupy the place and the country near it until a new campaign is planned in concert with the other grand armies of the United States ...
The Battle of Atlanta took place during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War on July 22, 1864, just southeast of Atlanta, Georgia.Continuing their summer campaign to seize the important rail and supply hub of Atlanta, Union forces commanded by William Tecumseh Sherman overwhelmed and defeated Confederate forces defending the city under John Bell Hood.
William T. Sherman, for whom the statement is named. A Shermanesque statement , also called a Sherman statement , Sherman speech , or the full Sherman , is American political jargon for a clear and direct statement by a potential candidate indicating that they will not run for a particular elected position.
[37] [38] [39] General Sherman had now cut two of the four rail lines leading into Atlanta. In an effort to cut the Confederate supply lines between West Point, GA, and Atlanta, General Sherman moved forces along the west side of Atlanta. General Hood sent two of his corps to protect his supply lines. Expecting an attack, the Union forces ...
Atlanta Campaign: Atlanta and vicinity (summer 1864) Sherman had launched his grand offensive against the Army of Tennessee in early May. For more than two months, Sherman's forces, consisting of the Army of the Cumberland, the Army of the Tennessee and the Army of the Ohio, sparred with the Confederate Army of Tennessee, then under the command of General Joseph E. Johnston.
General Sherman's capture of Atlanta in 1864 reduced McClellan's chances of winning the U.S. presidency that year. A map of the results of the 1864 U.S. presidential election. By the summer of 1864, the Civil War had gone on for over three years. Over 250,000 Union soldiers had been killed, with many more maimed or crippled.
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Grant and Meade would make a direct frontal attack on Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, while Sherman—now in command of all western armies—would destroy Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee and take Atlanta. [185] Major General Benjamin Butler would advance on Lee from the southeast, up the James River, while Major General ...