Atlanta

capital of Georgia, was laid out in 1845 and incorporated in 1847. During the Civil War the city was the center of important military operations. It was the scene of a sanguinery engagement July 22, 1864, between Sherman's army of the Tenne ee numbering three corps and Hood’s corps of Johnston’s army, 45,000 strong, in which the Confederates were defeated and driven back to their intrenchments within the town. Atlanta was afterward besieged by Sherman and captured upon Hood’s abandoning it, September 2, 1864. In the battle of July 22, Hood began the attack by falling upon Hardee on Sherman’s left. McPherson gained a position upon a high hill, commanding the very heart of the town, and then the fight went on all along the line. Battery F, Second United States, was lost in a sharp skirmish on a country road, and McPherson, riding to its a istance, was killed. The battle lasted over four hours, At four o’clock Hood plunged into the remnant of McPherson’s line and drove it back 400 yards, carrying two important batteries in the face of a murderous fire. Schofield’s batteries were hurried up to maintain this desirable position and aid the Fifteenth Corps to regain its lost ground at any cost. This move was succe ful. Hood retreated to his intrenchments having lost all his guns except the two advance ones. Sherman lost 3,722 men and Hood many more. Atlanta became the capital of Georgia in 1878. It is noted for its enterprise and as a great manufacturing city. In 1895 Atlanta was selected as the site of the Cotton States and International Exposition, which was opened September 15 of that year and closed December 15 following. The euterprise preved highly suo. ce ful, Pop. in 1900, 89,872. 56