Tuhia he tohutoro mō tēnei wāhanga - I taua wā, ka whakatere atu a Sherman i Chattanooga ki Atlanta, ka hinga i ngā hōia o te Rōpū Hononga a Joseph E. Johnston rāua ko John Bell Hood i te ara. Ko te hinganga o Atlanta
i te 2 o Hepetema, 1864, i whakaū i te pōtitanga anō o Lincoln hei peresideni. I wehe atu a Hood i te rohe o Atlanta ki te huri haere me te whakawehi i nga raina tuku a Sherman me te whakaeke i a Tennessee i te pakanga a Franklin-Nashville. I hinga a Union Maj. Gen. John Schofield i a Hood i te Pakanga o Franklin, ana ko George H. Thomas i patu i a Hood i te Pakanga o Nashville, i tino whakangaro i te ope a Hood.