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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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