. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . ^^3 Union StatesB^^The ConfetleracyI ITerritoriea Union and Confederacy after Gettysburg. had begun earlier, but lasted longer. Grant had capturedForts Donelson and Henry, commanding the lower coursesof the Tennessee rivers, in 1862; but Union occupation ofTennessee, and indeed of the line of the Ohio, was notassured, until, after oscillating campaigns and some of themost bloody fighting of the war. Grant, Thomas, and Sher-man drove the Confederates from Chattanooga, in Novemberof 1863. 538 THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865. IN THE FIELD 539
. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . ^^3 Union StatesB^^The ConfetleracyI ITerritoriea Union and Confederacy after Gettysburg. had begun earlier, but lasted longer. Grant had capturedForts Donelson and Henry, commanding the lower coursesof the Tennessee rivers, in 1862; but Union occupation ofTennessee, and indeed of the line of the Ohio, was notassured, until, after oscillating campaigns and some of themost bloody fighting of the war. Grant, Thomas, and Sher-man drove the Confederates from Chattanooga, in Novemberof 1863. 538 THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865. IN THE FIELD 539 This decisive victory opened up a fourth line of invasion,to Atlanta, at the farther end of the Atlanta and Chatta-nooga Railway, — only 135 miles distant, but with Shermansan intervening region of rugged mountains. At- March tolanta was located in the iron and coal region of * ® ^*northern Georgia and was becoming a center for manufac-turing arms and railway material. As the only such centerin the Confederacy, its capture was of supreme became Shermans task in the summer of 64 in a fourmonths campaign, against the skillful opposition of the out-numbered Johnston and the pounding of his desperate suc-cessor. Hood. Atlanta was taken September 3. Leaving its factoriesin ashes, and detaching Thomas with sufficient force toengage Hood, Sherman then (November) struck out afifth line of invasion, through the heart of the Confederacyfor Savannah, — living on the country and finding not even amilitia to oppose him. Meantime, in the East, the genius of Lee
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