The Battle of Jonesborough was the final battle of the Atlanta Campaign, and it caused the besieged city of Atlanta to fall into Union hands. On September 4, 1864, General Sherman issued Special Field Order # 64. General Sherman announced to his troops that “The army having accomplished its undertaking in the complete reduction and occupation of Atlanta will occupy the place and the country near it until a new campaign is planned in concert with the other grand armies of the United States.” The capture of Atlanta greatly aided the re-election of Abraham Lincoln in November, and hastened the end of the war. Hood led his defeated army away from Atlanta and to the west, opening the way for Sherman's March to the Sea and resulting in the virtual destruction of his Army of Tennessee during the Franklin-Nashville Campaign. In 1872 many of the fallen soldiers were relocated and reburied in the Patrick R. Cleburne Confederate Cemetery.
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