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Union
Casualties: 3,641
Confederate Casualties:
8,449
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Statistical Source: HPS
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The battles for Atlanta: Between
July 20 and 28, 1864, the new Confederate commander,
John Bell Hood,
hit Sherman's
advancing army three times - at Peachtree Creek to the
north; again just west of Decatur, where Sherman's friend
and fellow Ohioan James B. McPherson had been sent to
sever rail lines in what is now remembered as the Battle
of Atlanta; and once more at Ezra Church to the west.
Hood lost all three battles but the city remained in
Confederate hands.
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