“Atlanta is ours, and fairly won.”

— William T. Sherman

Telegram to President Abraham Lincoln (2 September 1864)
1860s, 1864, Telegram to Abraham Lincoln (September 1864)

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American General, businessman, educator, and author. 1820–1891

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