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Atlanta   /ætlˈæntə/  /ətlˈæntə/  /ætlˈænə/  /ətlˈænə/   Listen
Atlanta

noun
1.
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.  Synonym: capital of Georgia.
2.
A siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it; 1864.  Synonym: battle of Atlanta.



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"Atlanta" Quotes from Famous Books



... and came upon Johnston located on almost impregnable hills all the way to Atlanta. The battles of Dalton, Resaca, Dallas, Lost Mountain, and Kenesaw Mountain preceded Johnston's retreat to the intrenchments of Atlanta, July 10, Sherman having been on the move ...
— Comic History of the United States • Bill Nye

... congregations there are between one hundred thousand and two hundred thousand. One or more organized societies have sprung up in New York, Chicago, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Detroit, Toledo, Milwaukee, Madison, Scranton, Peoria, Atlanta, Toronto, and nearly every other centre of population, besides a large and growing number of receivers of the faith among the members of all the churches and non-church-going people. In some churches a majority of the members are Christian Scientists, and, as a rule, are the ...
— Pulpit and Press • Mary Baker Eddy

... Look Out Mountain, Of Corinth and Donelson, Of Kenesaw and Atlanta, And tell how the day was won! Hush! bow the head for a moment— There are those who cannot come. No bugle-call can arouse them— No sound ...
— Maurine and Other Poems • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

... the outstanding editors of America. Born on Manhattan Island and for many years active in newspaper work in New York City. His experience also includes editorial direction of newspapers in Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Boston. He knows the pulse of humanity and what pleases and interests the greatest number of intelligent people throughout ...
— What's in the New York Evening Journal - America's Greatest Evening Newspaper • New York Evening Journal

... prizes proved to be the "Atlanta" sixteen, and the "Trepassy" fourteen. Both were badly cut up, and together had suffered a loss of forty-one men in killed and wounded. On the "Alliance" were eleven dead, and twenty-one wounded. As the capture of the two vessels threw about ...
— The Naval History of the United States - Volume 1 (of 2) • Willis J. Abbot


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