Kennesaw Mountain
Subtitle: Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign
By: Earl J. Hess
Series: Civil War America; Civil War America
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781469602110
Subjects: Kennesaw Mountain, Battle of, Ga., 1864; Atlanta Campaign, 1864
Description: While fighting his way toward Atlanta, William T. Sherman encountered his biggest roadblock at Kennesaw Mountain, where Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee held a heavily fortified position. The opposing armies confronted each other from June 19 to July 3, 1864. Hess explains how this battle, with its combination of maneuver and combat, severely tried the patience and endurance of the common soldier and why Johnston's strategy might have been the Confederates' best chance to halt the Federal drive toward Atlanta.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The road to Kennesaw; title: Kolb's Farm; title: Sherman decides to strike; title: The Fifteenth Corps attack; title: The Fourth Corps attack; title: The Fourteenth Corps attack; title: The residue of a long day; title: Along the Kennesaw line; title: Flanking; title: Conclusion; title: Orders of Battle; title: Appendix: Kennesaw after the war.