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By William A. Link

After conquering Atlanta in the summertime of 1864 and occupying it for 2 months, Union forces laid waste to town in November. William T. Sherman's invasion was once a pivotal second within the historical past of the South and Atlanta's rebuilding over the next fifty years got here to symbolize the contested that means of the Civil conflict itself. The war's aftermath introduced contentious transition from previous South to New for whites and African americans alike. Historian William hyperlink argues that this fight outlined the wider that means of the Civil struggle within the smooth South, without position embodying the region's earlier and destiny extra sincerely than Atlanta.
Link frames town as either exceptional--because of the wonderful impression of the conflict there and the city's phoenix-like postwar rise--and as a version for different southern towns. He indicates how, regardless of the violent reimposition of white supremacy, freedpeople in Atlanta equipped a cultural, monetary, and political middle that helped to outline black America.

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