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An Excess of Brutality: The Surrender of the Dalton Garrison

An Excess of Brutality: The Surrender of the Dalton Garrison

In the first week of October 1864, Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood struck U.S Army Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman’s supply lines north of Atlanta. Hood’s northward thrust positioned his army between Sherman and Atlanta and his army group’s supply base in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Hood attacked the railroad lines that carried food, ammunition, clothing, and medical supplies to Atlanta and to...

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An Excess of Brutality: The Surrender of the Dalton Garrison

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