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The long, slow Confederate retreat towards Atlanta was making Sherman impatient. He decided to wrong-foot the enemy, who assumed he would keep to his flanking tactics, and he put on a big frontal assault.

It failed, and technically this was a Union defeat. But part of the Union army was now closer to Atlanta than before, and Johnston soon had to retreat again - causing the Confederate president to sack him in favour of Hood, a disastrous decision for the South.

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