Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te Hōngongoi 17, 1864, i mua tonu o te Pakanga o Peachtree Creek i te Hōngongoi 20, 1864, i whakakapihia e te Perehitini o te Rangatiratanga a Jefferson Davis a General Joseph E. Johnston hei rangatira mo te Ope Taua o Tennessee e tiaki ana i a Atlanta me te Lieutenant General, General mo te wa poto, John Bell Hood. I te 22 o Hōngongoi 1864, ka whakahau a Hood ki a Lieutenant General Hardee ki te whakatere i te taha maui o te ope taua o te Uniana ki te rawhiti o Atlanta mo te whakaeke ohorere i te wa e whakaeke ana a Major General Cheatham, i te rangatira o te roopu o Hood i mua, ki te whakaeke i te aroaro o te kaha o te Uniana me te rangatira o te hoia hoia, a Major General Joseph Wheeler, ka whakaeke i to raatau raina tuku. Ko te
Ko te Pakanga o Atlanta, i whawhai ki te rawhiti me te tonga o te taone me te tata ki nga raina tuku a te Uniana i te rawhiti atu i Decatur, Georgia, i whai ake. I roto i te ra uaua o te whawhai i muri i te haerenga o te po ki te whakauru ki te tuunga, i angitu nga tangata a Hardee ki te piko i te taha maui o te Uniana me te whakahoki mai i etahi o nga kopu i hangaia e nga Confederates i mua. Ko te Tumuaki o te Kotahitanga a James B. McPherson, i mate i te wa o te pakanga, i whakaarohia te nekehanga a te Rōpū ki te pito o tona taha, i whakarereke i tana raina me te tuku i nga whakapakari ki te taha.