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====Atlanta Campaign====
[[File:Atlanta campaign.svg|thumb|Sherman's Atlanta Campaign]]
The [[Atlanta campaign|Atlanta Campaign]] (May–September 1864) took place in northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta.

Confederate General Johnston fights and retreats from [[Battle of Rocky Face Ridge|Dalton]] (May 7–13)<ref name=autogenerated156 /> to [[Battle of Resaca|Resaca]] (May 13–15) to [[Battle of Kennesaw Mountain|Kennesaw Mountain]] (June 27). Union General Sherman suffers heavy losses to the entrenched Confederate army. Unable to pass through Kennesaw, Sherman swings his men around to the [[Skirmish at Pace's Ferry|Chattahoochee River]], where the Confederate army is waiting on the opposite side of the river. Once again, General Sherman flanks the Confederate army, forcing Johnston to retreat to [[Battle of Peachtree Creek|Peachtree Creek]] (July 20), five miles northeast of Atlanta.

* [[Battle of Atlanta]], July 22, 1864, just southeast of Atlanta. The city would not fall until September 2, 1864—heavy losses for Confederate [[John Bell Hood]].
* [[Battle of Ezra Church]], July 28, 1864, Sherman's failed attack west of Atlanta where the railroad entered the city.
* [[Battle of Utoy Creek]], August 5–7, 1864, Sherman's failed attempt to break the railroad line at [[East Point, Georgia|East Point]], into Atlanta from the west, heavy Union losses.
* [[Battle of Jonesborough]], August 31 – September 1, 1864, Sherman successfully cut the railroad lines from the south into Atlanta. The city of Atlanta was abandoned by General Hood and then occupied by Union troops for the rest of the war.