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    critical point of contention during the Atlanta Campaign in 1864 when a powerful Union Army approached from Union-held Tennessee. The fall of Atlanta was a critical...
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    Despite the implication of finality in its name, the battle occurred midway through the Atlanta campaign, and the city did not fall until September 2, 1864...
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    Atlanta (/ætˈlæn(t)ə/ at-LAN-(t)ə) is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, and a portion of...
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    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...
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    The history of Atlanta dates back to 1836, when Georgia decided to build a railroad to the U.S. Midwest and a location was chosen to be the line's terminus...
    103 KB (11,387 words) - 11:38, 14 July 2024
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    blockade of Confederate ports, the Union marshaled resources and manpower to attack the Confederacy from all directions. This led to the fall of Atlanta in...
    252 KB (28,611 words) - 11:47, 20 July 2024
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    victories. After the fall of Atlanta in September 1864, Union military success seemed assured, and Copperheadism collapsed. A possible origin of the name came...
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    to surrender at Marietta in early September 1864. The final fall of Atlanta in the Battle of Jonesborough ended up being a decisive point in the nation's...
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    The Atlanta murders of 1979–1981, sometimes called the Atlanta child murders, are a series of murders committed in Atlanta, Georgia, between July 1979...
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    state of Georgia. The airport is located 10 miles (16 km; 8.7 nmi) south of the Downtown Atlanta district. It is named after former Atlanta mayors William...
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    Metro Atlanta, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as the Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Roswell metropolitan statistical area, is...
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    William Wing Loring (category Members of the Florida House of Representatives)
    fighting at the Battle of Peachtree Creek, and at Ezra Church, where he was wounded. Loring was out of action until after the fall of Atlanta. Upon returning...
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    The Atlanta Braves are an American professional baseball team based in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The Braves compete in Major League Baseball (MLB)...
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    Convention". Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Retrieved May 13, 2022. Lowe, Robert E. (2016). "Lincoln, the Fall of Atlanta, and the 1864 Presidential...
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    William Tecumseh Sherman (category Testifying witnesses of the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson)
    best describes the two world wars but is of dubious relevance to the U.S. Civil War." After the fall of Atlanta in 1864, Sherman ordered the city's immediate...
    142 KB (17,263 words) - 13:48, 13 July 2024
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    Clark Atlanta University (CAU or Clark Atlanta) is a private, Methodist, historically black research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Clark Atlanta is the...
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  • The Atlanta Thrashers were a professional ice hockey team based in Atlanta. Atlanta was granted a franchise in the National Hockey League (NHL) on June...
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  • Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) is an American daily newspaper based in metropolitan area of Atlanta, Georgia. It is the flagship publication of Cox...
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    troops the next day and the Atlanta campaign was concluded. Although Hood's army was not destroyed, the fall of Atlanta had far-reaching political as...
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  • college in Atlanta, Georgia. It is a founding member of the Atlanta University Center academic consortium. Founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female...
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