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TheBattles for Chattanooga (November 23 to November 25, 1863) were a series of battles in which Union forces routed Confederate troops in Tennessee at the battles of Lookout Mountain and

Local News June 8, 2023 / 926 AM / CW69 Atlanta Stop Cop City organizers launch referendum push to place measure on November ballot Stop Cop City organizers launch referendum push to place measure on November ballot 0155 ATLANTA WUPA – Stop Cop City organizers have announced the filing of a referendum that could put the fate of the controversial Atlanta Public Safety Training Center in the hands of voters this activists and organizations attended a press conference at Atlanta City Hall on Wednesday to release the details of the referendum, which would repeal the lease of the property to the Atlanta Police Foundation."Today we are here to let the people decide. The people need to have a voice in whether or not there is a Cop City," said Kamau Franklin, an organizer and the founder of Community Movement Builders. "Every poll that we've taken, it has shown that a majority of Atlantans are against Cop City." WUPA The move comes after an 11-4 vote by the Atlanta City Council early Tuesday morning to allocate $67 million dollars to fund the project. This includes an annual $ million lease-back payment to the Atlanta Police Foundation. Protestors and a number of members of the community have long opposed the plans for the training facility. "Around Atlanta, we have millions of properties that need fixing, and they want to take our tax dollars and put it into a facility that we didn't ask for," said one resident of the community, Tomorra resident Eloise Mitchell also took issue with the outcome of the city council's vote. "If the people are showing up, and the people are saying they don't want this, for City Council just to ignore all the people, that's problematic," she referendum must first receive legal approval. In addition, the measure must have a petition with 70,000 signatures to be filed prior to it being placed on the November ballot."It doesn't need to be trick words," Mitchell said. "It needs to be straightforward on the ballot, so people know what they're voting for, so they can understand what people really want."Franklin and other organizers have accused members of the city council of going against the will of the people they have been elected to represent. "What they want is what the corporations want. What they want is what the developers want," Franklin said. "What they want is what the Atlanta Police Foundation wants."Police and fire officials have said they need better facilities to train and recruit more first responders. They say their supporters are behind them 100%. Opponents of the project say a new training facility is all about the militarization of the police. "We will not be intimidated, and so we're going to take our fight to the ballot box, and we believe we will win," said Legal Defense Fund attorney Gary said they are currently making plans to mobilize voters ahead of the referendum's approval. In Police Reform Atlanta Thanks for reading CBS NEWS. Create your free account or log in for more features. Please enter email address to continue Please enter valid email address to continue

TheUnion victory in the largest battle of the Atlanta Campaign led to the capture of that critical Confederate city and opened the door for Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's most famous operation—the March to the Sea and the capture of Savannah. How it ended. Union victory. What was General Ulysses S. Grant doing between his victory at Chattanooga on November 25, 1863, and his promotion to Lieutenant General four months later? History books rarely mention this section of time before Grant later faced Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Virginia. However, General Grant was already preparing for his next move during this crucial time and contemplating a possible move from the western theater of the Civil War to the eastern theater. In the winter of 1864, General Grant was doing reconnaissance for an eventual campaign to take the southern railway city of Atlanta, Georgia. Civil War enthusiasts know the frequently told story of Atlanta falling to General William T. Sherman in September 1864, but General Grant initially made plans to capture Atlanta himself. During his reconnaissance, Grant traveled long distances to inspect possible supply routes that could be used to shuffle men and supplies to the front in Georgia. One of those possible supply routes could run through the Cumberland Gap, which sat across the borders of Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee. In January 1864, Grant traveled to the Gap to find out for himself if the mountain pass would make a good supply route for his plans. Not long after Grant’s victory in Chattanooga, he decided to move his headquarters to Nashville, Tennessee. Grant moved his headquarters because he believed “remaining at Chattanooga I was liable to have my telegraphic communications cut so as to throw me out of communication with both my command and Washington.” Grant saw Nashville as “the most central point from which to communicate with my entire military division, and also the authorities at Washington.” Grant’s plans encompassed more than just the capture of Atlanta. Grant proclaimed, “I expected to retain the command I then had, and I prepared myself for the campaign against Atlanta. I also had great hopes of having a campaign against Mobile from the Gulf. I expected after Atlanta fell to occupy that place permanently and to cut off Lee’s army from the West . . .” Grant might have succeeded in taking Atlanta and Mobile, but his Commander-in-Chief had other plans. President Abraham Lincoln decided to promote Grant to Lt. General, the first officer since George Washington to hold that rank permanently. Grant and Lincoln decided that it would be best for him to accompany General George G. Meade’s Army of the Potomac in their pursuit of Robert E. Lee in Virginia. General Sherman would take over operations in the western theater and lead the charge to Georgia. Before his promotion, however, Grant made his long trek through the rugged terrain of eastern Tennessee, and eastern Kentucky. Grant left from Knoxville, Tennessee, and moved north towards the Cumberland Gap in January 1864 during an intensely cold winter. Grant wrote a letter to his wife Julia before leaving Knoxville stating that, “I very much fear the enemy intend holding a position in this country for the Winter and to make this the great battle field [sic] in the Spring.” The weather in Knoxville reminded him of his pre-war Army days in Sacketts Harbor, New York, in the 1840s and 1850s. It was so bitterly cold that Grant remembered “the thermometer being down as low as zero every morning for more than a week while I was at Knoxville, and on my way from there on horseback to Lexington, Kentucky . . .” The biting cold, combined with the bad roads, made it one of Grant’s toughest rides as he made his way towards Lexington, the city he needed to reach to catch a train back to his headquarters in Nashville. However, before he reached the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, he would need to make a stop at Cumberland Gap to inspect the troops as well as the road conditions leading through the Gap. What Grant found when he arrived at Cumberland Gap was not pleasant. The roads he wanted to use for moving men and supplies were some of the worst he had seen. Grant said, “The road over Cumberland Gap, and back of it, was strewn with debris of broken wagons and dead animals . . . The road had been cut up to as great a depth as clay could be by mules and wagons, and in that condition frozen; so that the ride of six days from Strawberry Plains to Lexington over these holes and knobs in the road was a very cheerless one, and very disagreeable.” The Army of the Ohio had been using the Gap as a supply route for some time, and now the route that Grant had considered as a trail to move supplies was looking very bleak. Grant mentioned that many of the Army of the Ohio’s “animals had nearly all starved” trying to pull supplies through the Gap. After seeing the roads at the Cumberland Gap, Grant realized that his ambitious plans for a supply route in this area would not work. He headed for Lexington to catch the train, and many people came out to see Grant as he rode towards central Kentucky. Grant remarked that “I found a great many people at home along that route, both in Tennessee and Kentucky, and almost universally, intensely loyal.” Many people in the mountains had been very pro-Union during the war. Grant, however, left the mountains behind to begin his leadership of all Union armies in Virginia. ^{GettysburgBattle American Civil War July 1863. November 2nd: President Lincoln was invited to make a speech at the dedication of the new cemetery at Gettysburg. Jefferson Davis visited Charleston and publicly stated that he believed the city would not fall. November 3rd: Sherman continued his march to Chattanooga.}

The Union victory in the largest battle of the Atlanta Campaign led to the capture of that critical Confederate city and opened the door for Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman’s most famous operation—the March to the Sea and the capture of Savannah. How it ended Union victory. Confederate Lt. Gen. John B. Hood’s attack on Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman’s troops at Atlanta was repulsed with heavy losses. Hood and Sherman continued to battle for the crucial Confederate city throughout the summer until Hood was finally forced to abandon Atlanta to Union forces on September 1, 1864. In context In the spring of 1864, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, general-in-chief of all armies, ordered five, simultaneous offensives to press Confederates all along their frontier. Grant recognized that the Confederates could not win a war of attrition, and he instilled in his commanders the need to exhaust the resources of the Rebels by destroying their armies. Grant assigned his friend Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman to command the fifth advance against Gen. Joseph E. Johnston’s army. Johnston was charged with defending Atlanta, the largest industrial, logistical, and administrative center outside of Richmond. Atlanta was at the junction of four railroads that connected all remaining Confederate-held territory east of the Mississippi River. By early July, Johnston had fallen back into the defenses of Atlanta. Frustrated by Johnston’s lack of aggressiveness, President Jefferson Davis replaced him with Lt. Gen. John B. Hood on July 18. Within days, Hood launched two attacks on Sherman—one at Peach Tree Creek on July 20 and the other along the Georgia Railroad known as the Battle of Atlanta on July 22. Both ended in defeat and led to the fall of Atlanta in September. The capture of such a valuable Confederate stronghold boosted Northern morale, helped ensure the reelection of President Abraham Lincoln in November, and precipitated the downfall of the Confederacy. On July 21, 1864, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman’s three armies are separated on the outskirts of Atlanta. Major General James B. McPherson’s Army of the Tennessee, facing Atlanta from the east astride the Georgia Railroad, has its left flank “in the air” Sherman has sent his cavalry to wreck the railroad further east. This situation presents Confederate general Hood with an opportunity to launch a flank attack like the one made famous by “Stonewall” Jackson at Chancellorsville. Hood plans for the corps of Lt. Gen. William J. Hardee to drop back from its lines north of the city into the main fortified perimeter on the night of July 21–22; the remaining corps of Maj. Gen. Alexander P. Stewart and Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Cheatham will follow. Hardee’s corps will march through and out of the city, southeast then northeast, guided by Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler’s cavalry, and jump into McPherson’s left-rear, while Wheeler attacks McPherson’s wagon trains at Decatur. Cheatham will support Hardee from the east edge of Atlanta. It is an ambitious plan, calling for a 15-mile night march by Hardee’s troops and a dawn attack on July 22. July 22. A late start, exhausted troops, a hot night, and dusty roads combine to bring the four assault divisions not nearly far enough into McPherson’s rear when Hardee, well behind schedule, decides to deploy. Then rough terrain adds further delay, and Confederate Maj. Gen. W. H. T. Walker is killed while getting his division into place. Hardee’s “surprise” attack does not begin until shortly after noon. The Federals have better luck. By chance, a Union Sixteenth Corps division under Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Sweeny happens to be in just the right position to meet Hardee’s opening assault. Instead of overrunning hospital tents and wagon trains in McPherson’s rear, Walker’s and Maj. Gen. William Bate’s troops run face-to-face into veteran Yankee infantry. McPherson, having left Sherman’s headquarters just before the firing started, is watching Sweeny contend with the Rebels. He rides off to see how Maj. Gen. Frank Blair’s Seventeenth Corps are faring; by now it has been struck by Maj. Gen. Patrick Cleburne’s hard-hitting division. McPherson and his staff are riding down a wagon road when they unexpectedly run into part of Cleburne’s line. “He came upon us suddenly,” Capt. Richard Beard of the Fifth Confederate Infantry later remembered I threw up my sword as a signal for him to surrender. He checked his horse, raised his hat in salute, wheeled to the right and dashed off to the rear in a gallop. Corporal Coleman, standing near me, was ordered to fire, and it was his shot that brought General McPherson down. McPherson’s subordinates dash off. One Union officer strikes a tree in his flight; the blow smashes his pocket watch and preserves the time of the general’s death—202 Cleburne’s attack initially overruns part of the Union line, capturing two guns and several hundred prisoners. Then the Southerners run up against infantry and artillery on a treeless hilltop occupied by Brig. Gen. Mortimer Leggett’s division and are stopped cold. Brig. Gen. George Maney’s Confederate division joins in the fight, but Leggett holds onto his hill. Around 300 Hood orders Cheatham’s corps to launch an attack from Atlanta’s eastern line of works. Cheatham’s fierce but uncoordinated assaults against the Federal line held by Logan’s Fifteenth Corps meet with initial success, overrunning the Union line at the Troup Hurt House and capturing artillery, until a counterattack forces it back. At the end of the afternoon, the Confederates retire back to their initial positions. The Battle of Atlanta, the bloodiest of Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign, is over. Union3,7220 killed0 wounded0 missing & capturedEstimated Casualties9,222Confederate5,5000 killed0 wounded0 missing & captured Hood’s effort to roll up Sherman’s left flank fails. On July 27, Sherman resumes operations against the city by shifting to the west side to cut the Macon & Western Railroad. The armies meet again at Ezra Church on July 28, which earns the Union another victory. Worn out after that, both armies settle in for a siege of the city that lasts throughout August. Atlanta Featured Resources Rocky Face Ridge Whitfield County, GA May 7 - 13, 1864 Result Union Victory Est. Casualties 1,437 Union 837 Confederate 600 Resaca Gordon County and Whitfield County, GA May 13 - 15, 1864 Result Inconclusive Est. Casualties 5,547 Union 2,747 Confederate 2,800 New Hope Church Paulding County, GA May 25 - 26, 1864 Result Confederate Victory Est. Casualties 2,065 Union 1,665 Confederate 400 Pickett's Mill Paulding County, GA May 27, 1864 Result Confederate Victory Est. Casualties 2,100 Union 1,600 Confederate 500 Dallas Paulding County, GA May 28, 1864 Result Union Victory Est. Casualties 5,400 Union 379 Confederate 1,200 Gilgal Church Cobb County, GA Jun 15 - 17, 1864 Result Confederate Victory Est. Casualties 1,100 Union 650 Confederate 450 Kennesaw Mountain Cobb County, GA Jun 27, 1864 Result Confederate Victory Est. Casualties 4,000 Union 3,000 Confederate 1,000 Peach Tree Creek Fulton County, GA Jul 20, 1864 Result Union Victory Est. Casualties 4,250 Union 1,750 Confederate 2,500 Atlanta Fulton County, GA Jul 22, 1864 Result Union Victory Est. Casualties 9,222 Union 3,722 Confederate 5,500 Jonesborough Clayton County, GA Aug 31 - Sep 1, 1864 Result Union Victory Est. Casualties 3,149 Union 1,149 Confederate 2,000 Related Battles Fulton County, GA July 22, 1864Result Union VictoryEstimated Casualties9,222

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