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Atlanta 1864 - Sherman Marches South

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Campaign Series - 1700 - 1950 A.D. (Excluding WWI & II)

Last Stocked on 6/13/2020

Product Info

Title
Atlanta 1864 - Sherman Marches South
Publisher
Category
Author
James Donnell
Publish Year
2016
Pages
96
Dimensions
7.25x9.75x.25"
NKG Part #
2147634669
MFG. Part #
OSPCAM290
Type
Softcover
Series
CAM290

Description

Union Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman's telegraph - "Atlanta is ours, and fairly won" - had a huge impact on the course of the Civil War. The culmination of a four-month campaign in the Western Theater, it propelled Abraham Lincoln to reelection.

Atlanta marked the beginning of the final Confederate struggle for survival. Union forces under Sherman lined up against Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee. The superior Union numbers forced the Confederates into a series of delaying actions from entrenched positions. When John Bell Hood replaced Johnston, the Confederates launched increasingly attacking campaigns but were finally forced to give up the city as the Union troops smashed their supply lines, denying the Confederacy its principal granary and manufacturing districts.

Sherman was left to embark on his famous March to the Sea.