Title: Kennesaw Mountain and the Atlanta Campaign : a tour guide /
Authors: Kelly, Dennis, 1945-
Publisher: Kennesaw Mountain Historical Association,
Year: 1990
Subjects: Kennesaw Mountain, Battle of, Ga., 1864.; Atlanta Campaign, 1864; Historic sites Georgia Marietta Region Guidebooks.; Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park (Ga.) Guidebooks.; Marietta Region (Ga.) Guidebooks.
Abstract: "For the first time, those people who like to step back into history to follow in the footsteps of Sherman's Yankees and Joe Johnston's and John Bell Hood's Confederates can easily do so with the aid of Dennis Kelly's Kennewas Mountain and the Atlanta Campaign: A Tour Guide. Historian Kelly, the reader quickly discovers, not only knows the countryside but also possesses the rare talent of writing good history that is exciting to read. Edwin C. Bearss, Chief Historian, National Park Service" --Back cover.
Contents: pt. 1. Leaders and armies. Biographies -- The generals prepare -- Veteran Armies -- Soldiering in 1864 -- Infantry -- Artillery -- Cavalry -- Chronology -- pt. 2. The campaign opens -- Rocky Face Ridge -- Resaca -- Cassville -- New Hope Church -- Pickett's Mill -- Dallas -- Touring the campaign area -- pt. 3. Approach to battle. Sherman's advance -- Pine Mountain -- Gilgal Church and Lost Mountain -- Mud Creek -- Johnston's Kennesaw Line -- Noonday Creek -- Kolb's Farm -- Touring the approach area -- pt. 4. The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. Sherman decides to fight -- Mountain diversion -- Pigeon Hill -- Cheatham Hill -- Sherman's command post -- Touring the Battlefield Park -- pt. 5. The fall of Atlanta. Crossing the Chattahoochee -- Peachtree Creek -- Atlanta -- Ezra Church -- Touring Civil War Atlanta -- pt. 6. Epilogue. Casualties -- To Bennett's Farm House.