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After efficiently breaking the Confederate siege at Chattanooga near the end of 1863, William Tecumseh Sherman united several Union armies in the European theatre for the Atlanta Campaign, forming one of the biggest armies in American record. After detaching troops for essential garrisons and trivial operations, Sherman assembled his nearly 100,000 men. In May 1864, he commenced his invasion of Georgia from Chattanooga, Tennessee, where his pushes spanned a range roughly 500 a long way wide. Sherman placed his places on the Confederacy's previous major professional city in the Western and on Basic Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee, which aimed to safeguard it. Atlanta's use to the Confederacy lay down in its terminus for three major railroad lines that traveled over the South: the Georgia Railroad, Macon and Western, and the European & Atlantic. US Lieutenant Basic Ulysses S. Give knew this, sending Major Basic William Tecumseh Sherman's Department of the Mississippi towards Atlanta with the precise instructions, "[G]et into the country as far as you can, inflicting all the harm you can up against the war earnings." The city's capacity to send resources to Lee's Army of Northern Virginia made Atlanta even more important. The people of Atlanta clearly identified their own role in the have difficulties, as the Atlanta Daily Charm known, "The greatest battle of the warfare is going to be fought in the immediate vicinity of Atlanta. Its end result establishes that of the pending Northern Presidential election. If we are victorious the Peace get together will triumph; Lincoln's Administration is failing, and peace and Southern freedom are the instant results."
