James Calhoun was the Mayor of Atlanta. He surrendered the city to Major General William Tecumseh Sherman on Sept.2,1864
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It was Democratic under the leadership of James Buchanan and Republican right before the start of the civil war under the leadership of Abraham Lincoln.
Mary Boykin Chestnut was not an actual participant in the Civil War. She was an author and an abolitionist who wrote about the war in a diary. She was married to James Chestnut who was a Confederate States Army general.
This seems like a US Civil War question as the phrase "March of or to the Sea" is commonly used for Union forces led by US General William Tecumseh Sherman under the overall commander of the Army of the Potomac, General Uylsses S. Grant. This march (a scorched earth type ) led to the Battle of Atlanta. What is frequently overlooked was that the main Union force used in taking Atlanta was the Army of Tennessee under Maj. General James B. McPherson. On August 31, 1865, Sherman's army captured the Macon, Georgia railway track which was a supply line to Atlanta. On September 2, 1865 the city of Atlanta formally surrendered to Sherman. Most of the "March" was a battle that began and followed the railway between Chattanooga Tennessee against Confederate General Johnston and ended in Marietta, Georgia. This was a point southeast of the captured City of Atlanta. Sherman stayed in Atlanta for 2 months, burned it to the ground, and carried on to the east. The end of the March to the Sea thus ended to the Southeast in the port city of Savannah.
The presidents of the south were the same as the north. When the south seceded from the union, Jefferson Davis became president of the southern states. George Washington Thomas Jefferson James Madison James Monroe Andrew Jackson James Polk