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I'm Tracy. Hello, y'all. Welcome to the podcast.

As y'all will recall with the last episode, we looked at William Tecumseh Sherman's decision

to flank the Confederate's position at Kennesaw Mountain after the failed federal frontal attacks against the rebel lines on June 27,

1864. In a letter to his wife, Ellen, on June 30th, Sherman made it clear that he had no

intention of attacking the Confederates' fortified lines at Kennesaw Mountain again, since, quote,

At this distance from home, we cannot afford the losses of such terrible assaults as Grant

has made in Virginia.

Sherman believed that a continuation of the state of affairs at Kennesaw would be pointless,

and the only way to avoid the possibility of once again

attacking the Confederates' fortified lines there was to make the flanking movement toward Fulton,

even though it meant the Federals would have to cut themselves off from the railroad for a short time.

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