ON THIS DAY: In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman captured Atlanta after a month-long siege. The South's most famous fictional daughter, Scarlett O'Hara, discovers firsthand how devastating the siege was to the city in 1939's GONE WITH THE WIND, when she is exiled from Tara and goes to live with her aunt on what becomes the Civil War's front lines. [today's movie at IMDb]

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