Battle of Atlanta

Fulton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. Its county seat is Atlanta, the state capital since 1868. 90% of the City of Atlanta... is within Fulton County . Fulton County is the principal county of the Atlanta metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 920,581; however, Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed suspects significant undercounting in the City of Atlanta, which implies similar concerns for Fulton County as a whole – the 2009 estimate of the county's population was 1,020,014, 10.8% higher than the 2010 census results. Fulton County is one of the five core counties of the Atlanta metropolitan area and the most populous county in the U.S. state of Georgia. Fulton County was created from the western half of DeKalb County in 1853. During General William T. Sherman's March to the Sea during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War, Sherman spared Roswell because he had a cousin who lived there. As a result, Roswell has more pre-Civil War historical buildings than anywhere else in north Georgia.
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The American Civil War , often referred to as The Civil War in the United States, was a civil war fought over the secession of the Confederacy. In... response to the election of an anti-slavery Republican as President, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25 states supported the federal government . After four years of warfare, mostly within the Southern states, the Confederacy surrendered and slavery was outlawed everywhere in the nation. Issues that led to war were partially resolved in the Reconstruction Era that followed, though others remained unresolved. In the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, had campaigned against expanding slavery beyond the states in which it already existed. The Republicans strongly advocated nationalism, and in their 1860 platform they denounced threats of disunion as avowals of treason. After a Republican victory, but before the new administration took office on March 4, 1861, seven cotton states declared their secession and joined to form the Confederate States of America.
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