Atlanta

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Atlanta is the capital and the most populous city of the State of Georgia.

[edit] Atlanta in Southern Victory

In 1943, at the climax of the Second Great War in North America, United States general Irving Morrell targeted Atlanta after the capture of Chattanooga as it was the last major Confederate east-west transportation hub.

After desperate fighting led by Confederate General George Patton to keep the U.S. out of the city, the C.S. realized that keeping Atlanta would be too costly in terms of manpower. In late December 1943, the C.S. army quietly withdrew on an overcast night with minimal losses. The U.S. army moved in shortly after.

[edit] Atlanta in A Different Flesh

Terminus was the home of the Federated Commonwealths' Disease Research Center. In 1988, the DRC was making substantial breakthroughs in combatting the AIDS epidemic by studying infected sims, when a pair of young activists took the young sim Matt.