noun
- 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.
- synonyms: capital of Georgia
- A siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it; 1864.
- synonyms: battle of Atlanta
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