Atlanta Will Fall Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions,9780842027878

Atlanta Will Fall Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions

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ISBN13: 9780842027878
ISBN10: 0842027874
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-04-01
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

General John Bell Hood tried everything he could: Surprise attack. Flanking march. Cavalry raid into the enemy's rear lines. Simply enduring his opponent's semi-siege of the city. But nothing he tried worked. Because by the time he assumed command of Conf

Table of Contents

PART ONE Johnston's Retreat to Atlanta; or, A Smart and Scrappy Sherman Uses his Strength to Cow and Bludgeon an Outnumbered, Less Resolute Opponent
Introduction: The Sherman-Johnston Match-up in Mississippi, July 1863, as Omen of Atlanta's Fall
3(4)
How Joe Johnston Earned His Reputation for Retreating
7(11)
Sherman Prepares to Advance
18(6)
Johnston Prepares to Fall Back
24(10)
Johnston Is Turned, I
34(12)
The Battle of Resaca (Johnston Is Turned, II)
46(5)
To Cassville
51(5)
To New Hope Church and Back to the Railroad (Johnston Is Turned, Again)
56(17)
The Mountain Lines, June 5-July 2, 1864
73(19)
Johnston Is Yet Again Turned, at the Chattahoochee
92(10)
The Government Concludes Johnston Has Failed: Deliberations and the Decision to Replace Him, July 10-17
102(25)
Notes to Part One
117(10)
PART TWO Hood Struggles Against the Inevitable; or, How Even a Student of the ``Lee and Jackson School'' Could Not Prevent the Fall of Atlanta
How Hood Learned War from Lee and Jackson in Virginia
127(2)
Hood's Attack Against Thomas's Army: Peachtree Creek, July 20, 1864
129(8)
Hood Attempts Another Chancellorsville, July 22
137(11)
Hood's Third Sortie Again Attempts a Flank Attack: Ezra Church, July 28
148(7)
Hood Keeps His Army Together While Enduring Sherman's Semi-Siege
155(12)
Hood Does What Joe Johnston Only Dreamed About: He Sends His Cavalry Off to Cut Sherman's Rail Lines, August 10
167(6)
Hood Is Unable to Parry Sherman's ``Movement Round Atlanta by the South,'' August 25-September 1
173(24)
Notes to Part Two
191(6)
Conclusion 197(4)
A Note on the Major Authorities 201(4)
Index 205(10)
About the Author 215

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