Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Macon” in chapter 12 of John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies:
...tion of the Augusta road, the holding of Atlanta — unless some favorable opportunity offered itself to defeat the Federals in battle — depended upon our ability to hold intact the road to Macon .
Sherman thus refers to the importance of this line:
I always expected to have a desperate fight to get possession of the Macon road, whicn was then the vital objective of the campaign. ...
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| Entity | Corpus | Doc | Corpus | Doc | |||
| † | Macon (Georgia, United States) | 1,494 | 94 | 352 | 6 | 0 user votes | |
| Macon (Mississippi, United States) | 31 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Macon (France) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Macon (Alabama, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Macon (Arkansas, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Macon (Belgium) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Macon (Florida, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Macon (Idaho, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Macon (Illinois, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Macon (Kentucky, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Macon (Michigan, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Macon (Montana, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Macon (Nebraska, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Macon (Ohio, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Macon (Virginia, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
† This entity has been selected by the automated classifier as the most likely match in this context. It may or may not be the correct match.