A Long and Bloody Task: The Atlanta Campaign from Dalton Through Kennesaw to the Chattahoochee, May 5-July 18, 1864

by Stephen Davis

Spring of 1864 brought a whole new war to the Western Theater, with new commanders and what would become a new style of warfare. Federal armies, perched in Chattanooga, Tennessee, after their stunning victories there the previous fall, poised on the edge of Georgia for the first time in the war.

Atlanta sat in the far distance. Major General William T. Sherman, newly elevated to command the Union's western armies, eyed it covetously--the South's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611213177
• ISBN13: 9781611213171
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Savas Beatie
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"