Reference meaning
Atlanta
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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
Related source terms
capital of georgia
Other meanings
2. noun
a siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it; 1864
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