Breaking the Confederacy: The Georgia and Tennessee Campaigns of 1864

by Jack H. Lepa

As the Civil War moved into 1864, people in the North expected newly appointed general-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant to roll over the Confederate armies and bring victory and peace by the end of the summer. With his friend William Tecumseh Sherman, Grant devised a strategy to defeat the Confederate Army of Tennessee and lay waste to the Deep South so that the area could no longer provide support for the Confederate war effort.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786460989
• ISBN13: 9780786460984
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher