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Atlanta Campaign
The Atlanta Campaign is 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 invades Georgia from the vicinity of Chattanooga, Tennessee, beginning in May 1864, opposed by the Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston.Johnston's Army of Tennessee withdraws toward Atlanta in the face of successive flanking maneuvers by Sherman's group of armies.
In July, the Confederate president replaces Johnston with the more aggressive John Bell Hood, who begins challenging the Union Army in a series of damaging frontal assaults.
Hood's army is eventually besieged in Atlanta and the city falls on September 2, hastening the end of the war.