Civil War

 American Civil War, but it did mark the beginning of General Sherman’s campaign to capture thIn 1864 the Battle of Resaca began in Georgia. This isn’t one of the great famous battles of thee critical rail center of Atlanta, Georgia. As it happened, when Atlanta finally fell on August 31 after a two-month siege, not only was it a major strategic victory from a military point of view, it turned the political tide in the North. Democrat George McClellan, running on a peace at any price platform was sure to beat incumbent Abraham Lincoln in the November election which would have resulted in the South winning the War. Yet after the fall of Atlanta, the tide changed and Lincoln won going away. This enabled the passage of the 13th Amendment prohibiting slavery and the capitulation of the Southern forces early the next year.