num_pages: 176
description: A gripping comprehensive account of the Civil War including eyewitness testimony profiles of key personalities period photographs illustrations and artifacts and detailed battle maps. Part of Time-Life Books' popular series on the Civil War this book covers the Atlanta Campaign of 1864 starting in the winter of 1863-64 when Union general William T. Sherman and Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston took command of the two opposing armies and continuing with the capture of Atlanta by Union forces in September 1864. The book is illustrated by maps period engravings and paintings and several dozen photographs.
language: English
title: Battles for Atlanta
publisher: Time-Life Books, Inc.