Fighting for Atlanta: Tactics, Terrain, and Trenches in the Civil War

by Earl J. Hess and HESS

Book Overview

As William T. Sherman's Union troops began their campaign for Atlanta in the spring of 1864, they encountered Confederate forces employing field fortifications located to take advantage of rugged terrain. While the Confederates consistently acted on the defensive, digging eighteen lines of earthworks from May to September, the Federals used fieldworks both defensively and offensively. With 160,000 troops engaged on both sides and hundreds of miles...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469661489
• ISBN13: 9781469661483
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"