The Chicago Tribune hailed the fall of Atlanta ... and as Sherman besieged Atlanta, Lincoln’s hopes in November looked ever more grim. The Democrats, with their anti-war Copperhead faction ...

In one word, Atlanta is at the centre of a network of towns and villages, which have furnished forth half its war material to the ... and western sections. The fall of Atlanta, and the ...

The Battle of Atlanta was by no means the biggest or bloodiest of the Civil War, but it played a crucial ... Across the Union, the fall of Atlanta was celebrated with 100-gun salutes, parades ...

He described how the presidential election, military engagements in Atlanta, and the Emancipation Proclamation all contributed to contemporary opinions about whether the Civil War should continue.

Several years ago, photographer Gregg Segal started a series that juxtaposes “an idealized Civil War embodied by period ... photographs at sites from the Atlanta Campaign. Jones attended the ...

My real reasons for this step were, we want all the houses of Atlanta for military ... seven months after the fall of Vicksburg, Sherman applied the “hard hand of war” against central ...

Because Hood failed, the fall of Atlanta became inevitable, and the seizure of Atlanta ensured the re-election of President Abraham Lincoln, which meant that Union victory in the Civil War was ...

He argued that the fall of Atlanta had come to mark the symbolic end of the Confederacy and the antebellum way of life in the South. His talk, “Civil War Atlanta: Why it Still Matters,” was ...

The US Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865 ... and set the stage for the eventual collapse of the Confederacy. The fall of Atlanta was an immense blow against the Confederacy as it served as ...