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

by Stephen Davis

Book Overview

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 Confederate forces protecting Atlanta, his predecessor Joe Johnston's chronic, characteristic strategy of gradual withdrawal had doomed the city to fall to William T. Sherman's Union troops.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0842027882
• ISBN13: 9780842027885
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"