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About Atlanta

Atlanta is a city in and the county seat of Montmorency County, Michigan, United States. The population was 757 at the 2000 census. The Battle of Atlanta was fought during the Atlanta Campaign (May 1–September 8, 1864) of the American Civil War as part of General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea. It marked a turning point for Union forces moving through Georgia and an important victory over Confederate forces under General Joseph E. Johnston that helped break up their resistance in northern Georgia; it also contributed to President Abraham Lincoln's reelection later that year on November 8 against former Union general George B. McClellan who ran on a peace platform calling for an end to hostilities between North and South with no further territorial gains or losses by either side after he failed miserably as commander-in-chief during his brief tenure from November 1861 until March 1862 when he resigned due largely to public disapproval over his generalship while commanding all Federal armies early in 1862 before being replaced by Maj.