Lt. General William Tecumseh Sherman, commanding the Armies of the Tennessee and of the Cumberland took Atlanta in September of 1864.
That general was William Tecumseh Sherman. He was one of General Grant's lieutenants at Shiloh and Vicksburg, and was the overall commander of the combined Union armies at Atlanta.
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That could be Shiloh or Atlanta.
It took over two months
Sherman was the union general in Atlanta.
The Union commander was Ulysses S. Grant
General Tecumseh Sherman, was the Union General who ransacked the South, all the way to the sea. He took over the Union Campaign in the west after General Ulysses S. Grant took over command of the Union Army, or the Army of the Potomac.
Atlanta Neighborhood Union was created in 1908.
Union General James B. McPherson was killed in battle outside of Atlanta. His death meant that General Sherman would have to find a replacement for the commander of the Army of the Tennessee.
The area commander was William T. Sherman. The commander of the whole army was Ulysses S. Grant.
The Union forces under General Sherman won the Battle of Atlanta. When General Hood left the area, he burned many buildings. When Sherman took over Atlanta, hundreds more businesses and homes were burnt.
ANSWER The Union commander at the Hornet's Nest was the Major General Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss.