Good morning, Whitewater.
Monday in town will be partly cloudy with a high of eighty-five. Sunrise is 6:19 and sunset 7:30, for 13h 11m 36s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 95.5% of its visible disk illuminated.
Google has a doodle on its main search page to mark the beginning of the U.S. Open. The doodle shows an intense match between o and g:
…at the Battle of Jonesboro, Georgia, General William T. Sherman launches the attack that finally secures Atlanta, Georgia, for the Union, and seals the fate of Confederate General John Bell Hood’s army, which is forced to evacuate the area.
The Battle of Jonesboro was the culmination of a four-month campaign by Sherman to capture Atlanta. He had spent the summer driving his army down the 100-mile corridor from Chattanooga, Tennessee, against a Confederate force led by General Joseph Johnston. General Hood, who replaced Johnston in July on the outskirts of Atlanta, proceeded to attack Sherman in an attempt to drive him northward. However, these attacks failed, and by August 1 the armies had settled into a siege.
In late August, Sherman swung his army south of Atlanta to cut the main rail line supplying the Rebel army. Confederate General William Hardee’s corps moved to block Sherman at Jonesboro, and attacked the Union troops on August 31, but the Rebels were thrown back with staggering losses. The entrenched Yankees lost just 178 men, while the Confederates lost nearly 2,000.
On September 1, Sherman attacked Hardee. Though the Confederates held, Sherman successfully cut the rail line and effectively trapped the Rebels. Hardee had to abandon his position, and Hood had no choice but to withdraw from Atlanta. The fall of Atlanta was instrumental in securing the reelection of Abraham Lincoln in the fall.
Puzzability has a new series this week, entitled Sound Bites. Here’s Monday’s game:
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This Week’s Game — August 31-September 4
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Sound Bites
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We’ve gone to pieces over this one. For each day this week, we started with two rhyming one-syllable words. The day’s clue gives, for each of those words, a shorter word that appears as a chunk within it. Please note that for the two words to rhyme, every sound from the first vowel sound onward must be identical, as the “-ime” sound in the example below.
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Example:
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LIMB, THY
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Answer:
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Climb, thyme
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What to Submit:
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Submit both words, in the same order as the clue (as “Climb, thyme” in the example) for your answer.
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Monday, August 31
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