Atlanta 1864
Last Chance for the Confederacy
Publication Year: 2000
Published by: University of Nebraska Press
Series: Great Campaigns of the Civil War
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Preface
Four great campaigns determined the military outcome of the American Civil War. The first of those epic struggles was the Fort Henry–Fort Donelson–Shiloh campaign (and its ancillary operations) in the late winter and spring of 1862. By those victories Union forces secured control of Missouri,Kentucky ,and most....

Acknowledgments
My mother was born in a house a short distance east of Cheatham’s Hill and not far south of Kennesaw Mountain. Many of her uncles,aunts,and cousins lived in houses west of Marietta on and near the 1864 battlefield. I still have several bullets,cannonballs,ba yonets,belt buckles,and other military artifacts...

CHAPTER TWELVE The Rebels Strike Back
Rarely has a general assumed command of an army under more inauspicious circumstances than those facing John Bell Hood on the morning of Monday,July 18, 1864. His army was backed up to a city it had to hold—a fact that limited his strategic options and room to maneuver. He also had to keep...

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Battle for the Macon & Western
For almost a month after the engagement at Ezra Church and the failure of the McCook-Stoneman raid,the opposing armies remained in relatively stable positions about Atlanta. Their parallel sets of heavily fortified trenches and artillery...

CHAPTER FOURTEEN “Let Old Abe Settle It”
News of Sherman’s success at Atlanta flew across the North,touching off massive public celebrations from coast to coast as citizens responded to the New York Herald’s “Let the Loyal North take heart.” No sooner did President Lincoln learn of the occupation of Atlanta (from Slocum’s September 2 telegram) than...
E-ISBN-13: 9780803201774
E-ISBN-10: 080320177X
Page Count: 236
Illustrations: Illus., maps
Publication Year: 2000
Series Title: Great Campaigns of the Civil War
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