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During the Georgia campaign of 1864, Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman sought both to defeat the Confederate army and to damage the South's war arsenals by capturing Atlanta, a manufacturing and railroad hub. Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston aimed to delay or stop Sherman, and Kennesaw Mountain offered him a strong defensive position from which to draw Sherman's larger army into battle. The fate of Atlanta, with its citizens, factories, armories, warehouses, and railroads, hung in the balance amid the dense woods, boggy creeks, dirt roads, and sparsely settled towns of northern Georgia.
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