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Welcome to the Atlanta Campaign
For most of 2022, I have been deeply immersed in the details and intricacies the Atlanta Campaign. My goal is to write a multi-volume series covering the entire operation from May 1 to September 7, 1864, with each volume covering roughly a months’ worth of activity. Admittedly ambitious, but I enjoy working on a large […]
Read more...ECW Podcast: The Early Phases of the Atlanta Campaign
Steve Davis talks about the early phases of the 1864 Atlanta Campaign in this new podcast episode. His years of research on the campaign have resulted in seven books and national awards, including the Fletcher Pratt Award, the Richard Barksdale Harwell Award, and the Douglas Southall Freeman Award. Don’t miss this closer look at one […]
Read more...Podcast Additional Resources: “The Atlanta Campaign”
It’s all about the Atlanta Campaign this morning… Did you catch Chris and Steve’s discussion about the campaign last week? (Just subscribe or access your NCO Level account via Patreon to hear the details.) Did you know that Steve Davis wrote the two Atlanta books for the ECW series? We’ve rounded up links for those […]
Read more...ECW Podcast “The Atlanta Campaign” Is Now Available
155 years ago, the Atlanta Campaign was well underway. In the newest Emerging Civil War Podcast episode, Chris Mackowski and Steve Davis–author of a number of works on the campaign–talk a bit about leadership, strategy, and some great stories from Georgia. This podcast is available to ECW Podcast subscribers at the NCO Subscription Level via Patreon.
Read more...Book Review: July 22: The Civil War Battle of Atlanta
July 22: The Civil War Battle of Atlanta. By Earl J. Hess. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2023. Hardcover, 432 pp. $44.95. Reviewed by Patrick Kelly-Fischer In July of 1864, Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman closed in around Atlanta, beginning the process of cutting the several railroad lines that supplied the city. Sherman’s largely uncontested […]
Read more...Things I have learned on the way to Atlanta – Sherman needs a Fixer.
John M. Corse began his war in 1861, as major of the 6th Iowa. By the summer of 1862, he commanded the regiment, and then a brigade. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Jackson, July 1863; and again at Missionary Ridge on November 25th, where he was badly wounded. Upon returning to duty in […]
Read more...Things I learned on the way to Atlanta – When the Army comes to town
War is destruction. Of lives, of health, sometimes of sanity, and very often, of property. When an army – any army comes to visit, destruction follows. During the course of the war, journalists both north and south favored articles about the “vandal horde’ of one army or another visiting such destruction on innocent civilians. The […]
Read more...Things I learned on the way to Atlanta—What happened at Cassville?
Cassville – May 19, 1864. The opening stages of the Atlanta campaign are defined by two “lost opportunities.” The first of those is Snake Creek Gap, the mountain pass supposedly unnoticed by the Confederate Army of Tennessee while entrenched at Dalton, which Federal General William T. Sherman used to surprise and nearly trap Rebel commander […]
Read more...Things I have learned on the way to Atlanta – All roads lead to Rome
On May 17, 1864, Union Brig. Gen. Jefferson C. Davis’s division marched to Rome, Georgia, confronting a mixed force of Confederate infantry and cavalry. Davis’s division was well beyond any immediate support, thirty or more miles from the nearest other Federal infantry, but Davis pressed on to Rome looking for bridges over the Oostenaula and […]
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