Atlanta
[æt'læntə]
Definition
(noun.) a siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it; 1864.
(noun.) state capital and largest city of Georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern United States; was plundered and burned by Sherman's army during the American Civil War.
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Definition
(n.) A genus of small glassy heteropod mollusks found swimming at the surface in mid ocean. See Heteropod.
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Examples
- General Sherman, leaving a force to hold Atlanta, with the remainder of his army fell upon him and drove him to Gadsden, Alabama. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Here Johnston made a stand until the 17th, when Sherman's old tactics prevailed again and the final movement toward Atlanta began. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She went out to America when she was young, and lived in the town of Atlanta, where she married this Hebron, who was a lawyer with a good practice. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The city of Atlanta was turned into a military base. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Johnston's army was the first objective, and that important railroad centre, Atlanta, the second. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- That is John Hebron, of Atlanta, said the lady, and a nobler man never walked the earth. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Dalton is at the junction of the railroad from Cleveland with the one from Chattanooga to Atlanta. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In execution of this plan, Hood, with this army, was soon reported to the south-west of Atlanta. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I expected to retain the command I then had, and prepared myself for the campaign against Atlanta. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I hold Atlanta with the 20th corps, and have strong detachments along my line. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The battle of the 22d is usually known as the Battle of Atlanta, although the city did not fall into our hands until the 2d of September. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As I have said already, Johnston was at Dalton, which was nearly one-fourth of the way between Chattanooga and Atlanta. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- No; there was a great fire at Atlanta very shortly after his death, and all her papers were destroyed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Since you left Atlanta, no very great progress has been made here. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- My husband died at Atlanta. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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