Fighting for Atlanta: Tactics, Terrain, and Trenches in the Civil War (Civil War America)

by Earl J Hess

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As William T. Sherman's Union troops began their campaign for Atlanta in the spring of 1864, they encountered Confederate forces employing field fortifications located to take advantage of rugged terrain. While the Confederates consistently acted on the defensive, digging eighteen lines of earthworks from May to September, the Federals used fieldworks both defensively and offensively. With 160,000 troops engaged on both sides and hundreds of miles of trenches dug, fortifications became a defining factor in the Atlanta campaign battles. These engagements took place on topography ranging from Appalachian foothills to the clay fields of Georgia's piedmont.

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  • ISBN13 9781469643427
  • Publish Date 8 October 2018
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 12 March 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 416
  • Language English