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It was an attempt to raise Northern morale in the run-up to the Presidential Election, which Lincoln feared he would lose.

Sherman's orders were to destroy the Army of Tennessee, but he had not succeeded in doing this, and the North was hungry for some good news.

'Atlanta Falls' made a heck of a headline, and Sherman then went on to cross Georgia, almost unmolested, which was a new and different way of demonstrating that the Confederacy was on its last legs.

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