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because of its location and commercial importance, atlanta was used as a center for military operations and as a supply route by the confederate army during the civil war. therefore, it also became a target for the union army. general william tecumseh sherman and his troops captured the city in 1864.

lincoln declared that slavery should not be allowed to spread into the new states, and of course this angered the south at the time.