Battle of Atlanta
Confederate Commander
Forces Engaged: 40,438
Total Casualties: 5,500
Confederate Officers
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Maj. Gen. William H. T. Walker
Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Cheatham
Maj. Gen. Henry D. Clayton
Maj. Gen. Gustavus W. Smith
Maj. Gen. William T. Martin
Brig. Gen. Hugh W. Mercer
Brig. Gen. Joseph H. Lewis
Brig. Gen. Jesse J. Finley
Brig. Gen. Thomas B. Smith
Brig. Gen. States Rights Gist
Brig. Gen. Mark P. Lowrey
Brig. Gen. George E. Maney
Brig. Gen. Otho F. Strahl
Brig. Gen. Alfred Cumming
Brig. Gen. Edmund W. Pettus
Brig. Gen. Alexander W. Reynolds
Brig. Gen. John C. Brown
Brig. Gen. Arthur Middleton Manigault
Brig. Gen. Randall L. Gibson
Brig. Gen. Pleasant J. Philips
Brig. Gen. Charles D. Anderson
Brig. Gen. Henry K. McCay
Brig. Gen. William Wirt Allen
Brig. Gen. Alfred Iverson
Brig. Gen. Samuel W. Fergueson
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July 22, 1864
Fulton and DeKalb Counties, Georgia
Union Victory
Part of the Atlanta Campaign
Battlefield Trust
The Battle of Atlanta Bald Hill, Leggett's Hill
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HistoryNet
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Atlanta Magazine
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Civil War Atlas Maps
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Son of the South - Harper's Weekly
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Union Commander
Forces Engaged: 34, 863
Total Casualties: 3,722
Union Officers
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Maj. Gen. Francis P. Blair, Jr.
Maj. Gen. Greenville M. Dodge
Brig. Gen. Morgan L. Smith
Brig. Gen. Charles R. Woods
Brig. Gen. Joseph A. J. Lightburn
Brig. Gen. William Harrow
Brig. Gen. John M. Corse
Brig. Gen. Elliott W. Rice
Brig. Gen. John W. Fuller
Brig. Gen. Mortimer D. Leggett
Brig. Gen. Giles A. Smith
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Union Official Records
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Boatner, Mark M. III., The Civil War Dictionary. New York: David McKay, 1967 p 33
Bailey, Ronald H., Ed. "Battles for Atlanta Sherman Moves East." The Civil War. Vol 3 of 28 Volumes. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life
Books, 1985. p 82-87, 97-115
Cannan, John. The Atlanta Campaign May -November 1864. Consholocken, PA: Combined Books, 1991. p 119-130
Davis, George B., Leslie J. Perry, and Joseph W. Kirkley. The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War. Washington: Government
Printing Office, 1897-1895., rpt New York: Barney & Noble, 2003. Plates 56-6, 61-2 and 3, 62-4 and 8
Cox, Jacob D. Atlanta. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1881-1883. rpt. National Historical Society, 2009. p 163-176
Derry, Joseph T. "Georgia." Confederate Military History Volume VI of XII. Atlanta: Confederate Publishing, 1899. rpt.
National Historical Society, 2008. p 296-352
Maxfield, Derek D. Man of Fire William Tecumseh Sherman in the Civil War. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2023. p 89-91
Sherman, William T. "The Grand Strategy of the Last Year of the War." Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel,
Eds. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition. Vol. IV Part I. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. National
Historical Society, 2006. p 247-259
Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Blue Lives of the Union Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1964.
------------------- Generals in Gray Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1992.
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