Saturday, September 4, 2010

Monday [September] 5 [1864]

A fine day and very
warm more Prisners
from Shermans army
Atlanta reported to
be taken and 8,000
Prisnors with it

On September 1, 1864, Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuated Atlanta, after a four-month siege by Union forces under Union General William T. Sherman. The following day the Mayor formally surrendered the city.

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