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Union soldiers relax beside the guns of a captured Confederate fort in Atlanta. Union general William T. Sherman captured Atlanta on September 2, 1864, and occupied the city until mid-November.

Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Photograph by George N. Barnard.

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