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and essentially put Atlanta under siege
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in July and August,
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and kept trying to get around, around, around
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especially to the left, to the east and south
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Atlanta to cut off the supply lines
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to this biggest city in the heartland of the south.
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He finally succeeded, at great cost,
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when Atlanta fell
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on the 4th of september in '64.
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And the Fall of atlanta is in some ways,
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both strategically and in terms of morale,
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one of the most important little turning points of the war,