USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Atlanta’s Roundhouse On November 15, 1864, U.S. forces led by Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman burned nearly all of the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia. This event occurred near the end of the U.S. Civil War during which 11 states in the American South seceded from the rest of the nation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Through October, Sherman built up a massive cache of supplies in Atlanta. He then ordered a systematic destruction of the city to prevent the Confederates from recovering anything once the Yankees had abandoned it. By one estimate, nearly 40 percent of the city was ruined.

Detailed explanation-3: -Of the 34, 863 Union troops engaged at the Battle of Atlanta, 3, 722 were killed, wounded, captured, or reported missing. Confederate forces suffered an estimated 5, 500 casualties of the 40, 438 engaged. The battle had special significance for Abraham Lincoln, who was seeking a second term as U.S. president.

Detailed explanation-4: -Atlanta was founded in 1837 as the end of the Western & Atlantic railroad line (it was first named Marthasville in honor of the then-governor’s daughter, nicknamed Terminus for its rail location, and then changed soon after to Atlanta, the feminine of Atlantic–as in the railroad).