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 * 1) The name of the battle is Peachtree Creek.
 * 2) The date the battle occurred was July 20,1864.
 * 3) The battle was in Fulton County.
 * 4) The Army of the Cumberland was a union army commanded by Gen. William T. Sherman and Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas. Joseph E. Johnston and Gen. John B. Hood were in charge of the Army of Tennessee, a confederate army. [[image:http://www.terrystexasrangers.org/pictures/portraits/commanders/hood_jb.jpg width="147" height="191" align="right" caption="Gen. John B. Hood from www.terrystexasrangers.org"]][[image:http://www.skreb.co.uk/Thomas_George_H_Maj_Gen_U.s.a.JPG width="164" height="206" align="right" caption="Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas from www.skreb.co.uk"]]
 * 5) There were around 50,000 confederate soldiers and 80,000 union soldiers.
 * 6) William Sherman's army had forced Joseph Johnston's army into Georgia for about three months. Johnston stopped each of Sherman's border attacks, but doing so he lost a lot of land.The confederate president Jefferson Davis was displeased with Johnston and replaced h im with John B. Hood. It was John Hood's first time as commander of the Army of Tennessee. The confederate retreated to the outskirts of Atlanta, Georgia and along the way the army destroyed all bridges. Hood's plan was to attack General Thomas army after half his soldiers crossed the Peachtree Creek so that the army was split into two.General Hood's plan was unsuccessful though. [[image:640720a.jpg width="311" height="216" align="center" caption="A battle sence from peachtree creek www.mycivilwar.com"]]
 * 1) John B. Hood did have a good idea, but he just wasn't well preprared causing his plan to be ruin.
 * 2) The Union won because General John B. Hood's attack wasn't timed right and by the time he attacked General Thomas's army most of them were already accross the river.
 * 3) The total number of casualties in the battle was 6,506. The Union States had 1,710 and the Confederate States had 4,796.
 * 4) The battle of Peachtree Creek was not a really important battle in the Civil War because it did not impact the Civil War very much.



Sources: http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/bystate.htm http://www.mycivilwar.com/battles/640720a.htm http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Battle-of-Peachtree-Creek http://www.civil-war-journeys.org/peachtree_creek_ga.htm http://www.history.com/civilwar/shermansmarch/ http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2713