Kennesaw Mountain : Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign /

While fighting his way toward Atlanta, William T. Sherman encountered his biggest roadblock at Kennesaw Mountain, where Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee held a heavily fortified position. The opposing armies confronted each other from June 19 to July 3, 1864, and Sherman initially tried t...

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Main Author: Hess, Earl J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
Series:Civil War America (Series)
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Table of Contents:
  • The road to Kennesaw
  • Kolb's Farm
  • Sherman decides to strike
  • The Fifteenth Corps attack
  • The Fourth Corps attack
  • The Fourteenth Corps attack
  • The residue of a long day
  • Along the Kennesaw line
  • Flanking
  • Conclusion
  • Orders of Battle
  • Appendix: Kennesaw after the war.