"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." - President Ronald Reagan
Back in September 1864, Atlanta was evacuated. On this day, the Union Troops began the destruction of Atlanta. It was the beginning of the end of the Civil War or the brutal battles that eventually broke the back of the Confederacy. It did not really end until April 1865.