Sherman's Atlanta Campaign concluded successfully on September 2, 1864, with the capture of the city, which Hood had been forced to abandon.

Thus the capture of Atlanta, coming when it did, may have been Sherman's greatest contribution to the Union cause.

The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia, on November 16 and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21.

During Sherman's March to the Sea, Hazen's division distinguished itself in the capture of Fort McAllister, Georgia, on December 13, 1864.

And because of Sherman's capture of Atlanta, Lincoln's re-election now seemed assured.

* The capture of Savannah following Sherman's March to the Sea in 1864

Palmer's corps was a part of William T. Sherman's March to the Sea and the actions to capture Savannah, Georgia, late in the year.

And because of Sherman's capture of Atlanta, Lincoln's re-election now seemed assured.

In March 1864, Generals Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman met at the Galt House to plan the invasion that led to the successful capture of Atlanta, Georgia and Sherman's March to the Sea.

While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.

The story is set in Clayton County, Georgia and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction, and depicts the experiences of Scarlett O ' Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to come out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman's March to the Sea.

The city became the supply and logistics base for Sherman's 1864 Atlanta Campaign.

:* Battle of Ezra Church, July 28, 1864, Sherman's failed attack west of Atlanta where the railroad entered the city.

:* Battle of Utoy Creek, August 5 – 7, 1864, Sherman's failed attempt to break the railroad line into Atlanta from the east, heavy Union losses.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.

* November 15 – American Civil War – Sherman's March to the Sea begins: Union General Sherman burns Atlanta and starts to move south, causing extensive devastation to crops and mills and living off the land.

Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas pointed out as late as 1966, " The very word ' Yankee ' still wakens in Southern minds historical memories of defeat and humiliation, of the burning of Atlanta and Sherman's march to the sea, or of an ancestral farmhouse burned by Cantrill's raiders.

Map of Sherman's advance from Atlanta to Goldsboro, North Carolina | Goldsboro

In December 1864, a large swath of the state from Atlanta to Savannah was destroyed during General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea.

During General William T. Sherman's March to the Sea during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War, Sherman spared Roswell because he had a cousin who lived there.

After the fall of Atlanta, Confederate General John Bell Hood led his Army of Tennessee from the Atlanta battlegrounds to the north and west in an attempt to lead General William Tecumseh Sherman's Army of the Cumberland away from Atlanta and out of Georgia.

The Union Army occupied the Vinings area during Sherman's Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War in 1864 on his March to the Sea.

It is home to hiking trails, picnic pavilions, playgrounds and the ruins of the Manchester Mill, a mill destroyed by Sherman's Atlanta Campaign in 1864.

After the fall of Atlanta, a detachment of Sherman's cavalry was sent to raid the county ; but the Confederate Home Guard, made up of men too old for military duty, left the mountains on which Cornelia is situated and met the Yankee raiders at a narrow pass about four miles east of the town.

Sherman's troops destroy a railroad near Atlanta

During Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign Wheeler's cavalry corps screened the flanks of the Army of Tennessee as Gen. Joseph E. Johnston drew back from several positions toward Atlanta.

Without accurate intelligence of Sherman's dispositions, Hood was beaten at Jonesborough and forced to evacuate Atlanta.

During September and October, Sherman and Hood played cat-and-mouse in north Georgia ( and Alabama ) as Hood threatened Sherman's communications to the north.

Sherman's " March to the Sea " followed his successful Atlanta Campaign of May to September 1864.

Earle made a cameo appearance in the daily cartoon strip Sherman's Lagoon in the week starting 17 September 2012, to discuss the closing of the Aquarius Underwater Laboratory.

After several unsuccessful attempts to force Sherman's withdrawal from Atlanta, the city fell to Union troops on September 2, 1864.

In September, Atlanta fell to Sherman's army group.

His army had departed northwest from the vicinity of Atlanta, Georgia, in late September 1864, hoping their destruction of Union supply lines would lure Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's Union army into battle.

In a two-week series the daily cartoon strip Sherman's Lagoon featured the potential closing of the Aquarius facility in the week starting September 10, 2012, and continued with a cameo appearance of Sylvia Earle in the week starting September 17, 2012, to discuss the importance of Aquarius.

His army had departed northwest from the vicinity of Atlanta, Georgia, in late September 1864, hoping that their destruction of Union supply lines would lure Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's Union army into battle.

Its troops were the first to enter Atlanta after its surrender on September 1, and later went with Sherman's Army of Georgia during his March to the Sea.

On one of their adventures they found themselves in a fountain in Las Vegas and ended up gambling away all their money in a casino ( as well as several of Sherman's teeth ).

A war was nearly started between the two because of Sherman's gluttony, but Fillmore ended the conflict peacefully ( except for Sherman, whom he made dress up like Dolly Parton ).

Sherman's experiences in the military had been very similar to Grant's ; he had studied at West Point, served in the Mexican War, and later had resigned from the Army only to fail in his civilian career.

Gen. Sherman in his place ; this posting to Mexico also conveniently diminished Sherman's availability for the War Secretary's job.

Sherman's family came from Ohio to visit his camp near Vicksburg ; his nine-year-old son, Willie, the Little Sergeant, died from typhoid fever contracted during the trip.

" However, Sherman himself stated that " f I had made up my mind to burn Columbia I would have burnt it with no more feeling than I would a common prairie dog village ; but I did not do it ..." Sherman's official report on the burning placed the blame on Confederate Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton III, who Sherman said had ordered the burning of cotton in the streets.

Some of the artistic treatments of Sherman's march are the Civil War era song " Marching Through Georgia " by Henry Clay Work ; Herman Melville's poem " The March to the Sea "; Ross McElwee's film Sherman's March ; and E. L. Doctorow's novel The March.

Demon of the Lost Cause: Sherman and Civil War History ( University of Missouri Press ; 2011 ) 208 pp ; Traces Sherman's shifting reputation as shaped by Lost Cause historians, enemies in the North, and Sherman himself.

No fighting occurred in the County during the war ; nor was it directly in General Sherman's path.

Also in late December, Beauregard found out that Hood's army had been severely damaged in its defeat at the Battle of Nashville ; there were very few men in fighting condition who could oppose Sherman's advance.

Grant ordered Hunter to employ scorched earth tactics similar to those that would be used later in that year during Sherman's March to the Sea ; he was to move through Staunton to Charlottesville and Lynchburg, " living off the country " and destroying the Virginia Central Railroad " beyond possibility of repair for weeks.

Weisman's stage résumé includes roles in Arthur Schnitzler's Anatol, Jean Giraudoux's Apollo of Bellac, which received a Garland for Production of the Year and seven LA Weekly award nominations ; Madman and the Nun, The Firebugs, Suburban Motel, Ethan Lipton's Hope on the Range, Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy, Oscar Wilde's Salome, and the West Coast Premiere of Jonathan Marc Sherman's Sophistry.

*** Geomys pinetis ; 4 subspecies, the Southeastern, Cumberland Island, Sherman's and Goff's Pocket Gophers

The divisions had been organized in 1861 ( the first, Banks ' Division of the Army of the Potomac, as early as July ) and by January, included 13 such formations in the Army of the Potomac ; two in Western Virginia ; one ( Burnside's ) in Maryland ; one ( Sherman's ) in South Carolina ; five more in the Army of the Ohio ; and one each in Missouri and Tennessee, for a total of 24 ; this total does not include multiple separate brigade-level formations, much less units in garrison at various fortifications and other posts from Maine to California.

* Musicians: Charles Ansorge ; Carl Bergmann ; Otto Dresel ; Herman Trost ( band leader in Sherman's army who later settled in Lexington, Kentucky, where he conducted the first band at the University of Kentucky ; friend of John Philip Sousa ); Carl Zerrahn