Sherman.
It actually represented his failure to destroy the Army of Tennessee, as ordered. (That army escaped.) But the fall of Atlanta gave the North a big, dramatic signal that the war was going their way. Many claim that it saved Lincoln from losing the imminent General Election of November 1864.
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The Battle of Atlanta fought during the American Civil War lasted Six weeks.
In the Northern and Western suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia.
At the Battle of Atlanta, the Union Army had 3,641 causalities and losses. The Confederacy Army had 5,500 casualties and loses at the battle on July 22, 1864.
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Battle of Atlanta.