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All the Fighting They Want: The Atlanta Campaign from Peach Tree Creek to the Surrender, July 18september 2, 1864

Paperback

Main Details

Title All the Fighting They Want: The Atlanta Campaign from Peach Tree Creek to the Surrender, July 18september 2, 1864
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Stephen Davis
SeriesEmerging Civil War Series
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:192
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreAmerican civil war
ISBN/Barcode 9781611213195
ClassificationsDewey:973.7371
Audience
General
Illustrations 150 images and maps

Publishing Details

Publisher Savas Beatie
Imprint Savas Beatie
Publication Date 1 October 2016
Publication Country United States

Description

John Bell Hood brought a hangdog look and a hardfighting spirit to the Army of Tennessee. Once one of the ablest division commanders in the Army of Northern Virginia, he found himself, by the spring of 1864, in the war's Western Theater. Recently recovered from grievous wounds sustained at Chickamauga, he suddenly found himself thrust into command of the Confederacy's illstarred army even as Federals pounded on the door of the Deep South's greatest untouched city, Atlanta. His predecessor, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, had failed to stop the advance of armies under Federal commander William T. Sherman, who had pushed and maneuvered his way from Chattanooga, Tennessee, right to Atlanta's very doorstep. Johnston had been able to do little to stop him. The crisis could not have been more acute. Hood, an aggressive risktaker, threw his men into the fray with unprecedented vigor. Sherman welcomed it. "We'll give them all the fighting they want," Sherman said. He proved a man of his word. In All the Fighting They Want, Georgia native Steve Davis, the world's foremost authority on the Atlanta campaign, tells the tale of the last great struggle for the city. His Southern sensibility and his knowledge of the battle, accumulated over a lifetime of living on the ground, make this an indispensible addition to the acclaimed Emerging Civil War Series.

Author Biography

Stephen Davis, longtime Atlantan, has been a Civil Warrior since the fourth grade. He served as Book Review Editor for Blue & Gray magazine for more than twenty years, and is the author of more than a hundred articles on the Civil War in both scholarly and popular journals. His book Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston and the Yankee Heavy Battalions, was published in 2001. He is also the author of What the Yankees Did to Us: Sherman's Bombardment and Wrecking of Atlanta (2012).