Volume 47, Number 19 · November 30, 2000
Blitzkrieg in Georgia
By James M. McPherson
Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy
by Richard M. McMurry
University of Nebraska Press, 229 pp., $35.00
Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865
edited by Brooks D. Simpson, by Jean V. Berlin
University of North Carolina Press, 948 pp., $45.00
'Atlanta is ours, & fairly won.' This dispatch from General William T. Sherman on September 3, 1864, set off wild celebrations in the North. A prominent New Yorker wrote in his diary: 'Glorious news this morning—Atlanta taken at last!!!…it is (coming at this political crisis) the greatest event of the war.'[1] President Abraham Lincoln ordered a salute of one hundred guns to be fired in no fewer than eight cities. From the siege lines at Petersburg, Virginia, General Ulysses S. Grant informed Sherman that 'in honor of your great victory I have ordered a salute to be fired with shotted guns from every battery bearing upon the enemy.'
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