In the battle of the Wilderness General Grant's instructions to Sherman for his part in the general plan of combined operations, in the spring of 1864, directed him to move against Johnston's army, to break it up, and to get into the interior of the enemy's country as far as he could, inflicting all the damage he could against their war resources. Atlanta, eighty-five miles from Dalton, was Johnston's base. It was a large town at the junction of several...
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