Author: Richard McMurryPublisher: Blue & Gray Enterprises
ISBN: 9780962603464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Blue & Gray Magazine's History and Tour Guide of the Atlanta Campaign
Author: Richard McMurryPublisher: Blue & Gray Enterprises
ISBN: 9780962603464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Atlanta Campaign, 1864
Author: David A. PowellPublisher: Casemate
ISBN: 1636242928
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
A fully illustrated narrative of the Atlanta campaign complete with maps, illustrations, and diagrams. General John Bell Hood’s tenure commanding the Confederate Army of Tennessee stood in marked contrast to that of his predecessor Joseph E. Johnston. Where Johnston was forced to conduct a war of maneuver, parrying William T. Sherman’s repeated flanking attempts, he rarely risked offensive blows. The initiative remained almost entirely with the Federals. When Johnston did stand to accept battle, with only a few exceptions, he received enemy assaults behind fortified lines. However, weeks of retreating undermined morale. With Hood in charge, offense became the order of the day. Hood fought the two largest and bloodiest battles of the entire campaign within the space of two days: attacking at Peachtree Creek on July 20, and again at the Battle of Atlanta on July 22. A third attack at Ezra Church on July 28 was launched by Stephen D. Lee, on his own initiative. The results of all three battles, however, were the same—bloody failures for the Confederates. Thereafter, Hood adopted a more defensive strategy, choosing to preserve what combat power his army retained. The second volume on the Atlanta campaign portrays the final months of the struggle for Atlanta, from mid-July to September, including what remains to be seen of the battles around the city: Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Decatur, and Ezra Church. The siege will cover historic views of Atlanta, operations east of the city, and the city’s capture. The cavalry chapter focuses on the Union cavalry raids south of Atlanta which ended in disaster. Finally, the fighting at Jonesboro will bring the series to a close.
Blue & Gray Magazine's History and Tour Guide of the Antietam Battlefield
Author: Stephen W. SearsPublisher: Blue & Gray Enterprises
ISBN: 9780962603457
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Providing everything a visitor to the Civil War battlefield would want to know, a detailed commentary includes numerous maps, in-depth analysis, and an acclaimed Driving Tour of sites inside and outside the boundaries of Antietam National Battlefield Park. Reprint. IP.
Blue & Gray Magazine
Author: A History of the 134th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the American Civil War, 1862-1865
Author: Charles H. CosgrovePublisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Highlights of the regiment's service were its near-annihilation at Gettysburg; the brutal march to and from Knoxville; its almost daily action during the Atlanta Campaign, followed by the March to the Sea; and the Campaign of the Carolinas. Excerpts from primary source documents, including diaries, memoirs, letters, local newspapers, Company order books, and medical records from the National Archives never before researched, capsule biographies of all 1100 who served, maps and statistical data, and photographs.
Fields of Glory
Author: Jim MilesPublisher: Cumberland House
ISBN: 9781684422777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
In early May 1864 Union armies left their winter encampment near Chattanooga, Tennessee, and began a march to Atlanta. Four months later -- on September 3 -- William T. Sherman wired Abraham Lincoln, Atlanta is ours, and fairly won!"" The fall of Atlanta was not just one more Union victory. It was pivotal to the outcome of the entire Civil War and also to Lincoln's reelection. With the fall of Atlanta, Confederate morale plummeted. The South's most significant manufacturing center was destroyed, and its primary railroad connections were cut. The destruction of Atlanta was not just a Union victory over one city, but a key to the end of the war. Fields of Glory traces the story of the campaign from the Tennessee border through the heart of Georgia to Jonesboro. Included is a series of driving tours that enable readers to see firsthand the battlefields and important sites of the campaign. Also included are more than 85 illustrations, 25 original maps, a lively history of the campaign, fascinating tours of the battlefields, articles on military strategy, biographies of generals, the chronology of key battles and important events, sources for additional travel information, a bibliography, and an index. ""In General Sherman's mind, "" Jim Miles explains, ""before the Civil War could be brought to a victorious conclusion, Atlanta had to be destroyed and the Confederacy denied its products. From that day, Atlanta was a doomed city."" ""
Beyond Combat
Author: Edward G. LongacrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
North & South
Author: Subject Guide to Children's Books in Print 1997
Author: Bowker Editorial StaffPublisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN: 9780835238007
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 2776
Book Description
To the Sea
Author: Jim MilesPublisher: Cumberland House
ISBN: 9781558530478
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In November 1865, sherman burned Atlanta and took an army of 80,000 Union veterans on a campaign that crushed the heart of the Confederacy. When he reached Savannah a month later, an ugly scar 300 miles long and 60 miles wide had been burned across Georgia. This captures every aspect of that march.