Photo: Frank Leslie, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Supposedly the first major fight of the Georgia Campaign of the Civil War in 1864 with General William T. Sherman which shattered the Georgia's economic resources of the military power of the southern Confederacy.
The Battle of Resaca, from May 13 to 15, 1864, formed part of the Atlanta campaign during the American Civil War, when a Union force under William Tecumseh Sherman engaged the Confederate Army of Tennessee led by Joseph E. Johnston. The battle was fought in Gordon and Whitfield counties, Georgia.
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