this happens over and over again from dalton to rosaka, and from rosaka to cassville and on and on. and at kennesaw mountain sherman does attack and gets a bloody nose. crosses the chattahoochee river and johnston retreats to the defenses of atlanta having not stopped sherman over the course of nearly 100 miles and jefferson davis gives up on johnston and appoints john bell hood a fighter as commander of the army of tennessee. hood repeatedly attacks sherman, trying to drive him back from atlanta and hood gets a series of bloody noses. finally, sherman undertakes the last of his flanking moments at the end of august cuts the last railroad into atlanta coming in from the south forces hood to evacuate atlanta on september 2nd. and that has a huge political impact in the north, northern people have become wary of the war and the slaughter, especially in virginia, during the summer of 1864, with nothing to show for it. or apparently nothing to show for it. and now comes the message from atlanta, from sherman. atlanta is ours. and fairly won. people in the north go upset at this news. it