✦ History

Part of American Civil War

Atlanta campaign

May 7 – September 2, 1864 · North Georgia

Result Union victory

Union forces under William T. Sherman advanced from Tennessee into Georgia. They took Atlanta, which helped Lincoln win reelection.

On the map Contemporaries

Union

Confederacy

United States
Confederate States of America
John Schofield military commander William Tecumseh Sherman military commander Oliver O. Howard military commander Joseph Hooker military commander James B. McPherson military commander George H. Thomas military commander
John Bell Hood military commander Joseph E. Johnston military commander Gustavus Woodson Smith military commander William J. Hardee military commander Stephen D. Lee military commander Joseph Wheeler military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
112,819
Wounded
22,822

Units

Army of the Cumberland Army of the Tennessee Union Army 14th Ohio Infantry Regiment 21st Ohio Infantry Regiment 2nd Ohio Infantry Regiment 33rd Ohio Infantry Regiment 147th Regiment (United States) 9th Illinois Infantry Regiment 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment
1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment (Confederate) 8th Confederate Cavalry Regiment

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