Fighting for Atlanta : tactics, terrain, and trenches in the Civil War /
As William T. Sherman's Union troops began their campaign for Atlanta in the spring of 1864, they encountered Confederate forces employing field fortifications located to take advantage of rugged terrain. While the Confederates consistently acted on the defensive, digging eighteen lines of eart...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Tactics, terrain, and trenches
- Dalton and Resaca
- Cassville
- New Hope Church, Pickett's Mill, and Dallas
- The Mountain Line, the Gilgal Church Line, and the Mud Creek Line
- The Kennesaw Line
- June 27
- Flanking the Kennesaw Line
- Crossing the Chattahoochee
- Peach Tree Creek, July 22, and Ezra Church
- Utoy Creek and extending south
- Siege
- Jonesboro
- Lovejoy's Station, Palmetto Station, and the federal defenses of Atlanta
- Fortifying during the Atlanta campaign.