| Summary: | The Battle of Atlanta figures prominently in the Union\'s conquest of the Confederacy in the final year of the Civil War and in Abraham Lincoln\'s re-election to the US presidency. \"The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance\" chronicles this engagement while considering the war\'s larger meaning and legacy. This extensive essay combines a narrative of battlefield events, photographs, postcard views, images from the Atlanta cyclorama, original maps, and other visual and textual artifacts with a web-based mobile application (<a href=\"http://battleatl.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">battleatl.org</a>) that enables virtual touring of battlefield sites.
Well-preserved Civil War battle sites are among the most popular historical destinations in the United States, but they comprise a small fraction of the battlefields that can be explored. In the aftermath of the war, the Atlanta battlefield also served as a major site for commemorating the four-year conflict and expressing particular versions of the war\'s history. Urban development has largely altered the landscape on which the Battle of Atlanta was fought, yet, 150 years after the fierce fighting east of the city on July 22, 1864, many remnants of the battlefield remain visible and provide a rewarding encounter with the past.
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