Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A halin yanzu, Sherman ya yi tafiya daga Chattanooga zuwa Atlanta, ya ci nasara da Janar Janar Joseph E. Johnston da John Bell Hood a hanya. Faduwar Atlanta
a ranar 2 ga Satumba, 1864, ya tabbatar da sake zaben Lincoln a matsayin shugaban kasa. Hood ya bar yankin Atlanta don juyawa da kuma barazana ga hanyoyin samar da Sherman da kuma mamaye Tennessee a cikin Kamfen na Franklin-Nashville. Janar Janar John Schofield ya ci Hood a yakin Franklin, kuma George H. Thomas ya ba Hood babbar nasara a yakin Nashville, inda ya hallaka sojojin Hood.