The Battle of Ezra Church and the Struggle for Atlanta /
Fought on July 28, 1864, the Battle of Ezra Church was a dramatic engagement during the Civil War's Atlanta Campaign. Confederate forces under John Bell Hood desperately fought to stop William T. Sherman's advancing armies as they tried to cut the last Confederate supply line into the city...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A delicate movement: maneuver, battle, and logistics
- They are Sherman's flankers: July 27
- General Hood will attack me here!: morning, July 28
- That shrill, terrifying yell: Brantley's Brigade
- A scene of absolute horror: Sharp's Brigade and Johnston's Brigade
- The bigest kinde of a rot: Clayton's Division and Manigault's Brigade
- The blood-stained path: Walthall's Division
- Nerve and persistency: along the line on July 28
- The bloody effects of that half day's work: the battlefield
- Enough for one or two more killings: evaluating Ezra Church
- Our true move: July 29 to August 3.