Download or read book The Campaign For Atlanta Sherman s March to the Sea Volume 1 written by Theodore P. Savas and published by Savas Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of two volumes. The Atlanta Campaign (May - September 1864) consisted of wide-ranging maneuvers and a series of battles North Georgia during the Civil War with the intent to capture the important city of Atlanta. Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman launched his three-army invasion from Chattanooga, Tennessee, in early May 1864, opposed by Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee. The Confederates fell back toward Atlanta in a series of withdrawals after Sherman's successive flanking maneuvers. Johnston was replaced by the more aggressive Gen. John Bell Hood in mid-July, who turned to a series of attacks to throw back and defeat Sherman on Atlanta's doorstep. The Army of Tennessee was besieged in the city that August and the city fell on September 2. Original well-researched and written essays by leading scholars in the field on a wide variety of fascinating topics. Contains original maps, photos, and illustrations.
Download or read book The Campaign for Atlanta and Sherman s March to the Sea written by Theodore P. Savas and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to historian Richard McMurry, the 1864 campaign "through the woods and across the hills, valleys, and streams of North Georgia was one of the biggest, longest, and most spellbinding of the American Civil War. It was also one of the most important." Despite its decisive impact on the war, the Georgia campaigns have still not received the attention they deserve. In the 1990s, editors Savas and Woodbury put together two volumes of wide-ranging and especially thoughtful essays by leading historians and students of war with footnotes, original maps, photos, and index that quickly sold out. Long out of print, they are once more being made available with a new Foreword by award-winning author Steve Davis in The Campaign for Atlanta & Sherman's March to the Sea.Volume 1"A Reassessment of Confederate Command Options During the Winter of 1863-1864," by Steven E. Woodworth;"'The Heavens and Earth had Suddenly Come Together': The Battle of Peachtree Creek," by Albert Castel;"A Reappraisal of the Generalship of General John Bell Hood in the Battles for Atlanta," by Stephen Davis;"Feeding Sherman's Army: Union Logistics in the Campaign for Atlanta," by James J. Cooke;"'It is Surrender or Fight?' The Battle for Allatoona," by Phil Gottschalk;"'The Flash of Their Guns was a Sure Guide': The 19th Michigan Infantry in the Atlanta Campaign," by Terry L. Jones;"Lines of Battle: The Partial Atlanta Reports of Confederate Maj. Gen. William B. Bate," edited by Zack Waters.
Download or read book The Campaign for Atlanta and Sherman s March to the Sea written by Keith Bohannon and published by Savas Publishing. This book was released on 1998-07-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited third installment in this popular series on the critical but overlooked campaign that captured Atlanta. These essays by leading Civil War writers examine the campaign from political, military, and strategic perspectives. It includes articles on the bloody 154th New York Regiment, a pair of brilliant battle studies, an in-depth examination of the attack and defense of the railroads upon which the armies depended, the politics of the 1864 presidential election, and more.
Download or read book CAMPAIGN FOR ATLANTA SHERMAN S MARCH TO THE SEA VOLS 1 2 CANCELLED OUT OF PRINT 8 22 98 written by THEODORE P. SAVAS and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sherman s March to the Sea written by Alan C. Downs and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a balanced interpretation of one of the most infamous campaigns of the American Civil War, this book addresses the realities of the March to the Sea that are too often shrouded in myths and misperceptions.
Download or read book The Campaign for Atlanta and Sherman s March to the Sea written by Stephen Davis and published by . This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time Albert Castel's Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864 appeared in 1992, Savas Woodbury Publishers had already made important contributions to the campaign scholarship by publishing a collection of original essays by some of the field's most noted authors, including Steven Woodworth, writing about the Confederacy's command options in the Winter of 1863-64. Editors Theodore P. Savas and David A. Woodbury next assembled another group of articles that included such luminaries as Richard McMurry and William R. Scaife. The pair of paperbacks were published together in 1994 in a special hardcover edition with fold-out maps entitled The Campaign for Atlanta & Sherman's March to the Sea, Volumes I and II. Now, almost three decades later, Savas Beatie proudly announces the publication of its third volume in the series. Once again, cutting-edge scholarship is presented in such essays as Brian Wills' "Forrest and Atlanta" and Larry Daniel's "The Adairsville Affair." Stephen Davis wonders why the battle of Jonesboro (August 31-September 1) still draws so much attention when Federal troops had already cut Hood's last railroad line into Atlanta, sealing the fate of the city even before the battle had begun. Additional essays address the impact of Sherman's campaigns on Georgia women, Joe Johnston's self-aggrandizing campaign accounts, and more. Like its predecessors, The Campaign for Atlanta and Sherman's March to the Sea, Volume 3 will be highly sought by students of the campaign, and western theatrists in general.
Download or read book Sherman s March to the Sea written by Tom Streissguth and published by Focus Readers. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's scorched-earth campaign from Atlanta, Georgia to Savannah, Georgia, and up into South Carolina. Discusses the effects the campaign had on the land and for the war effort, as well as the controversies Sherman's decisions created. Includes critical "Think About It" questions and a "Voices from the Past" special feature"--
Download or read book To the Sea written by Jim Miles and published by Cumberland House. This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 1865, sherman burned Atlanta and took an army of 80,000 Union veterans on a campaign that crushed the heart of the Confederacy. When he reached Savannah a month later, an ugly scar 300 miles long and 60 miles wide had been burned across Georgia. This captures every aspect of that march.
Download or read book Sherman s March to the Sea written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures of the battle's important generals. *Includes accounts of the march written by important participants. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading. "I can make this march, and I will make Georgia howl!" - William Tecumseh Sherman "[N]o Civil War commander possessed a more astute appraisal of the nature of the contemporary warfare, how to form and pursue grand strategy, and the critical nexus between war, civil society, popular support, and electoral politics, And few American generals have since." - Victor Davis Hanson, The Savior Generals William Tecumseh Sherman holds a unique position in American history. Synonymous with barbarity in the South, Sherman is lauded as a war hero in the North, and modern historians consider him the harbinger of total war. As a Union general, Sherman was recognized for his outstanding command of military strategy but criticized for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States, especially in 1864 and 1865. Military historian B. H. Liddell Hart famously declared that Sherman was "the first modern general." Both Grant and Sherman shared the same theory of war: anything that might help the enemy's war effort should be considered a military target. Grant explained to Sherman that the Confederates must be "demoralized and left without hope," and he instructed Sherman, "Take all provisions, forage and stock wanted for the use of your command. Such as cannot be consumed, destroy. Leave the valley so barren that crows flying over it...will have to carry their provender with them." This strategy sought the total economic collapse of the South, as well as completely disabling the South's capability of fielding armies. In addition to the wholesale plundering of Southern resources, including taking them from civilians, the Union reversed its policy of swapping prisoners, realizing it had a far bigger reserve of manpower than the South. The Atlanta Campaign was a perfect example of this, as both sides lost about the same number of casualties. By September 1864, however, Sherman still had about 80,000 men, while Hood's army was reduced to about 30,000. Thus, with his remaining forces, about 60,000 strong, Sherman decided to take the unprecedented step of cutting his own communication and supply lines and commencing a widespread march across Georgia, destroying Southern infrastructure and living off the land until his forces reached the coast and linked up with the Union navy. Aside from those plans, Sherman did not appoint a fixed time for his arrival, and the concept of the march greatly concerned the Lincoln Administration, since his men would virtually be on their own without any contact with the rest of the North as they marched straight through the heart of the Confederacy. Grant expressed his own concerns but eventually gave Sherman a simple go-ahead: "Go as you propose." Foragers known as "bummers" (a group comprised of deserters, criminals, and other miscreants) were assigned to seize food from local farms, while the troops (both left and right wings) moved along the railroad lines, ripping up and burning the track as they advanced, leaving miles of severed telegraph lines in their wake. The troops also adopted the habit of heating the train rails over fires and then wrapping them around tree trunks, which became known as "Sherman's neckties." Ultimately, Sherman's armies cut a path of abject destruction 60 miles wide and 300 hundred miles long from Atlanta to Savannah, which some likened to a Biblical blight. And as Sherman had intended, he did indeed made Georgia "howl." Sherman's March to the Sea comprehensively covers the campaign, including the fighting and the aftermath of the results. You will learn about Sherman's March to the Sea like you never have before.
Download or read book War and Ruin written by Anne J. Bailey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >"I can make this march, and make Georgia howl." -William Tecumseh Sherman The "March to the Sea" shocked Georgians from Atlanta to Savannah. In the late autumn of 1864, as Sherman's troops cut a four-week long path of terror through Georgia, Sherman accomplished his objective: to destroy civilian morale and with it their support for the Confederate cause. His actions elicited a passionate reaction as tales of his dastardly deeds and destruction burned Sherman's name into the Southern psyche. But does the Savannah Campaign deserve the reputation it has been given? In her new book War and Ruin, Anne J. Bailey examines this event and investigates just how much truth is behind the popular historical notions. Bailey contends that the psychological horror rather than the actual physical damage-which was not as devastating as believed-led to the wilting of Southern morale. War and Ruin looks at the "March to the Sea" from its inception in Atlanta to its culmination in Savannah. This fascinating text is a chronicle of not just the campaign itself, but also a revealing description of how the people of Georgia were affected. War and Ruin brilliantly combines military history and human interest to achieve a convincing portrayal of what really happened in Sherman's epic effort to smash the Confederate spirit in Georgia.
Download or read book Sherman s March to the Sea written by Thomas Streissguth and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's scorched-earth campaign from Atlanta, Georgia to Savannah, Georgia, and up into South Carolina. Discusses the effects the campaign had on the land and for the war effort, as well as the controversies Sherman's decisions created. Includes critical "Think About It" questions and a "Voices from the Past" special feature"--
Download or read book Retracing the Route of Sherman s Atlanta Campaign and the March to the Sea written by Robert C. Jones and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love him or hate him, the actions of William Tecumseh Sherman in Georgia in 1864 transformed the Civil War in the space of seven months. From a conflict which was still very much in doubt as to its victor in early 1864, by the time Sherman had captured Atlanta, marched to the Sea, and captured Savannah, the will to fight had largely left the South, and the outcome of the War had become a foregone conclusion. This book tells the story of both Sherman's Atlanta Campaign and his March to the Sea, through the mechanism of looking at what remains today (monuments, buildings, trenches, etc.) at sites associated with those events. This edition contains 75 color photos and lithographs, as well as a number of black and white engravings.
Download or read book Sherman s March in Myth and Memory written by Edward Caudill and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-08-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General William Tecumseh Sherman's devastating "March to the Sea" in 1864 burned a swath through the cities and countryside of Georgia and into the history of the American Civil War. As they moved from Atlanta to Savannah--destroying homes, buildings, and crops; killing livestock; and consuming supplies--Sherman and the Union army ignited not only southern property, but also imaginations, in both the North and the South. By the time of the general's death in 1891, when one said "The March," no explanation was required. That remains true today. Legends and myths about Sherman began forming during the March itself, and took more definitive shape in the industrial age in the late-nineteenth century. Sherman's March in Myth and Memory examines the emergence of various myths surrounding one of the most enduring campaigns in the annals of military history. Edward Caudill and Paul Ashdown provide a brief overview of Sherman's life and his March, but their focus is on how these myths came about--such as one description of a "60-mile wide path of destruction"--and how legends about Sherman and his campaign have served a variety of interests. Caudill and Ashdown argue that these myths have been employed by groups as disparate as those endorsing the Old South aristocracy and its "Lost Cause," and by others who saw the March as evidence of the superiority of industrialism in modern America over a retreating agrarianism. Sherman's March in Myth and Memory looks at the general's treatment in the press, among historians, on stage and screen, and in literature, from the time of the March to the present day. The authors show us the many ways in which Sherman has been portrayed in the media and popular culture, and how his devastating March has been stamped into our collective memory.
Download or read book The March to the Sea written by Jacob Dolson Cox and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of the Great March of General Sherman Through Georgia From the Diary of a Staff Officer With a Map and Illustrations written by George Ward NICHOLS (Major.) and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marching Through Georgia written by Fenwick Yellowley Hedley and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-09 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardcover reprint of the original 1890 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9". No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Hedley, Fenwick Yellowley. Marching Through Georgia: Pen-Pictures Of Every-Day Life In General Sherman's Army, From The Beginning Of The Atlanta Campaign Until The Close Of The War. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Hedley, Fenwick Yellowley. Marching Through Georgia: Pen-Pictures Of Every-Day Life In General Sherman's Army, From The Beginning Of The Atlanta Campaign Until The Close Of The War, . Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., 1890. Subject: Sherman's March To The Sea
Download or read book General William Sherman s Great March to the Sea American Civil War Books Biography 5th Grade Children s Biographies written by Dissected Lives and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to bravery, General William Sherman is definitely somewhere at the top. This biography book features the life and times of one of the heroes of the American Civil War. Read about General William Sherman and his great march to the sea. Discuss his involvement in the burning of Atlanta. Grab a copy and begin reading today.
