Atlanta campaign (Umbrella Project)

Atlanta Campaign (Umbrella Project): Note this is an Umbrella Project for the entire Atlanta Campaign. Please add profiles to the battles (found below) that your relative fought in.

The Atlanta campaign was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864. Union Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman invaded Georgia from the vicinity of Chattanooga, Tennessee, beginning in May 1864, opposed by the Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston.

Johnston's Army of Tennessee withdrew toward Atlanta in the face of successive flanking maneuvers by Sherman's group of armies. In July, the Confederate president, Jefferson Davis, replaced Johnston with the more aggressive General John Bell Hood, who began challenging the Union Army in a series of costly frontal assaults. Hood's army was eventually besieged in Atlanta and the city fell on September 2, setting the stage for Sherman's March to the Sea and hastening the end of the war.

Western Theater of the American Civil War

1. Rocky Face Ridge (May 7–13, 1864)
2. Resaca (May 13–15, 1864)
3. Adairsville (May 17, 1864)
4. New Hope Church (May 25–26, 1864)
5. Dallas (May 26 – June 1, 1864)
6. Rome Cross Roads (May, 1864)
7. Pickett's Mill (May 27, 1864)
8. Marietta (June 9 – July 3, 1864)
9. Noonday Creek (June 10-July 3, 1864)
10. Kolb's Farm (June 22, 1864)
11. Kennesaw Mountain (June 27, 1864)
12. Pace's Ferry (July 5, 1864)
13. Peachtree Creek (July 20, 1864)
14. Atlanta (July 22, 1864)
15. Ezra Church (July 28, 1864)
16. Utoy Creek (August 5–7, 1864)
17. Second Battle of Dalton (August 14–15, 1864)
18. Lovejoy's Station (August 20, 1864)
19. Jonesborough (August–September, 1864)
20. Sherman's March to the Sea (November-December 1864)
21. Honey Hill (November, 1864)
22. Sandersville (November 25-26, 1864)