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Confederate Army Command Changed

Location:Mead Paper Co, 950 West Marietta, Atlanta
LATITUDE33.7836271726
LONGITUDE-84.4181419088
County:Fulton

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CONFEDERATE ARMY
COMMAND CHANGED

Near here the command and the tactics of the Confederate Army were changed July 18, 1864.
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman (USA) had been trying for months to force Gen. Joseph E. Johnston (CSA) to abandon delaying tactics and face overwhelming odds in open battle. Gen. John Bell Hood took command of the Confederate Army on the above date and daringly went out to meet the Union forces. Atlanta fell after bitter fighting. There are 55 original Confederate cannon balls in the adjacent
U. D. C. marker.

060-3 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1953

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