Sherman's Horsemen: Union Cavalry Operations in the Atlanta Campaign
As Union General William T. Sherman's army approached Atlanta during his famous march to the sea, Confederate resistance stiffened. Sherman decided to cut off the railroads leading to Atlanta to bring the city to its knees. Evans, a Southern writer with a Ph.D. in military history, presents an "unmilitary history" of the cavalry sent to destroy those railroads. These are stories of individual soldiers, from the foolhardy Yankee who wore a captured Rebel hat into battle and was mistaken for the enemy to generals Rousseau and Garrard, whose tireless troopers destroyed two major railroads to Atlanta. Evans recounts the stories of bravery and cowardice, of ambition and sloth, all from the Union point of view. The image of Yankees as rapists and pillagers, he says, is simply not true. His compelling, highly readable book should appeal to anyone interested in Civil War history. Recommended for public and academic libraries.?Grant Fredericksen, Illinois Prairie Dist. P.L., MetamoraCopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.