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Material Type: | Biography |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Russell S Bonds |
ISBN: | 9781594161278 1594161275 9781594161001 1594161003 |
OCLC Number: | 664326270 |
Description: | xxii, 522 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The greatest event of the war -- Crazy Bill: The Banks of the Chattahoochee, July 1864 -- The Gamecock: Confederate Headquarters, Atlanta, July 17 -- Old Woodenhead: Hood takes command -- Hood's first sortie: The Battle of Peachtree Creek, July 20 -- Night March: Skirmishing and first shots, July 21-22 -- "An Iliad of woes": Bald Hill, or, The Battle of Atlanta, July 22 -- The Battle of the Poor House: Ezra Church, July 28 -- "A used-up community": The bombardment of Atlanta -- "I have Atlanta in my hand": The Battle of Jonesboro, August 31 -- September 1 -- "A day of terror and a night of dread": the surrender of Atlanta, September 2 -- Yankee Town: occupation and expulsion, September-October -- The whole world on fire: the burning of Atlanta -- Resurgens: Atlanta rebuilds -- Afterword: War is hell -- Author's note: Atlanta's lost battlefields -- Appendix A: Order of Battle -- Appendix B: Report by W.P. Howard to Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown on the destruction of Atlanta. |
Other Titles: | Battle and burning of Atlanta |
Responsibility: | Russell S. Bonds. |
Abstract:
Gives an account of the battle for and burning of Atlanta during the American Civil War - the event made famous in the film "Gone with the Wind". Based on research into diaries, letters, and newspapers, this volume takes readers across the smoky battlefield and into the lives of fascinating characters, both the famous and the forgotten.
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