Campaigns of the Civil War

THE ATLANTA AND SAVANNAH CAMPAIGNS, 1864

THE ATLANTA AND SAVANNAH CAMPAIGNS, 1864

J. Britt McCarley

U.S. Army Campaigns of the Civil War
CMH Pub 75-13, Paper
2014; 84 pages, maps, illustrations, further readings

GPO S/N: 008-029-00582-4

The In The Atlanta and Savannah Campaigns, 1864, author J. Britt McCarley covers the military operations in northern Georgia involving the Union army group led by Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman and the Confederate Army of Tennessee commanded by Generals Joseph E. Johnston and John Bell Hood. The Atlanta Campaign consisted of numerous engagements, including the Battles of Resaca, Kennesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Ezra Church, and Jonesboro. The campaign ended with Sherman's capture of Atlanta, Georgia, the Confederacy's largest transportation and manufacturing center in the Deep South. McCarley's superb account concludes with an examination of the Savannah Campaign, more popularly known as Sherman's March to the Sea.

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