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The author speaks out on his work: Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood
Every Civil War historian hopes that her/his work will add a few nuggets to the literature. Here’s a candidate from my recent book, Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood (Mercer University Press, 2019). In Stephen M. Hood, ed., The Lost Papers of Confederate General John Bell Hood (2015) is the letter […]
Read more...The ’64 Valley Campaign: Solidifying Lincoln’s Election but Not a Turning Point
In the midst of our ongoing ‘Turning Points’ discussion last week, someone asked me last week if I thought Sheridan’s 1864 Valley Campaign was a turning point. I gave this very question a lot of thought when Phill Greenwalt and I were working on our book Bloody Autumn: The 1864 Valley Campaign. After giving it […]
Read more...Campaign Through the Carolinas: An Ohio Cavalryman’s Recollections in the National Tribune
This is the fifth and final part of the 1892 account by an unidentified captain of the 10th Ohio Cavalry that appeared in the May 12, 1892 edition of the National Tribune. As pointed out previously, I believe this is a unique account that I doubt has been seen or otherwise used since it was […]
Read more...Campaign Through the Carolinas: An Ohio Cavalryman’s Recollections in the National Tribune
This is the fourth part of the 1892 discussion of the events that led to the surrender of the forces under command of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston by an unidentified captain of the 10th Ohio Cavalry. I particularly like the account of the meeting between Judson Kilpatrick’s cavalry and the remnant of Joseph Wheeler’s Cavalry […]
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: Steve Davis and Hood’s Grand Assault at Atlanta-July 22, 1864
Steve Davis is one of the most recent additions to the Emerging Civil War stable of authors. Steve was introduced to ECW by publisher Ted Savas, as the Emerging Civil War Series looked to expand its reaches farther into the Western Theater. He is currently putting the finishing touches on two books for the series, […]
Read more...Honoring the Chickamauga Campaign
While the battle of Chickamauga was fought between September 18 and 20, 1863; Union General William Starke Rosecrans’s campaign to capture Chattanooga and (if possible) capture or destroy the Confederate Army of Tennessee really began on August 16th. Federal infantry closed down to the north bank of the Tennessee River on a broad front, ranging […]
Read more...Aftermath In Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia was a key Confederate railway hub throughout the war with a thriving population of about 22,000. Defense of this industrial city fell to Lt. General John Bell Hood and his army, which unfortunately was much too small for the responsibility. News traveled fast as Union General William T. Sherman marched towards Atlanta in […]
Read more...Hood’s North Georgia Campaign Begins
With the fall of Atlanta, and with Robert E. Lee pinned down in the trenches around Richmond and Petersburg, things looked grim for the Confederacy. The only hope seemed to fall on the shoulders of General John Bell Hood and the hard-luck Army of Tennessee. There weren’t many options that could lead to victory. But […]
Read more...“Atlanta Is Ours”
Defeat at Jonesboro ended John Bell Hood’s hopes of holding Atlanta. He abandoned the city the evening of September 1, destroying all useful military stores that could not be moved (a scene later immortalized in the book and film Gone With The Wind). The next morning (150 years ago today), Atlanta’s mayor surrendered the city […]
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