Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 215
Trim: 5½ x 9
978-0-8420-2787-8 • Hardback • April 2001 • $140.00 • (£108.00)
978-0-8420-2788-5 • Paperback • April 2001 • $48.00 • (£37.00)
978-0-7425-7094-8 • eBook • April 2001 • $45.50 • (£35.00)
Stephen Davis is book review editor for Blue & Gray magazine and is Medical Relations Manager for MAG Mutual Insurance Company.
Chapter 1 I Johnston's Retreat to Atlanta; or, A Smart and Scrappy Sherman Uses His Strength to Cow and Bludgeon an Outnumbered, Less Resolute Opponent
Chapter 2 Introduction: the Sherman-Johnston Match-up in Mississsippi, July 1863, as Omen of Atlant's Fall
Chapter 3 How Joe Johnston Earned His Reputation for Retreating
Chapter 4 Sherman Prepares to Advance
Chapter 5 Johnston Prepares to Fall Back
Chapter 6 Johnston Is Turned, I
Chapter 7 The Battle of Resaca (Johnston Is Turned, II)
Chapter 8 To Cassville
Chapter 9 To New Hope Church and Back tot he Railroad (Johnston Is Turned, Again)
Chapter 10 The Mountain Lines, June 5-July 2, 1864
Chapter 11 Johnston Is Yet Again Turned, at the Chattahoochee
Chapter 12 The Government concludes Johnston Has Failed: Deliberations and the Decision to Replace Him, July 10-17
Chapter 14 How Hood Learned War from Lee and Jackson in Virginia
Chapter 14 II Hood Struggles Against the Inevitable; or, How Even a Student of the Lee and Jackson School Could Not Prevent the Fall of Atlanta
Chapter 15 Hood's Attack Against Thomas's Army: Peachtree Creek, July 20, 1864
Chapter 16 Hood Attempts Another Chancellorsville, July 22
Chapter 17 Hood's Third Sortie Again Attempts a Flank Attack: Ezra Church, July 28
Chapter 18 Hood Keeps His Army together While Enduring Sherman's Semi-Siege
Chapter 20 Hood Does What Joe Johnston Only Dreamed About: He Sends His Cavalry Off to Cut Sherman's Raili Lines, August 10
Chapter 21 Hood is Unable to Parry sherman's Movement Round Atlanta by the South, August 25-September 1
An excellent analysis of the Atlanta campaign, from Dalton to Jonesboro, with an explanation of the mistakes General Joe Johnston made that allowed Sherman to succeed.....
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Davis provides a ringing defense of General John Bell Hood who, he says, got a bum rap in the fall of Atlanta to Sherman's relentless pressure on the Confederate defenders.....
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Demolishes old myths and replaces them with new truths, and does so in a fashion that is as hard-hitting as a 20-pounder Parrott shell striking its target. To be read with profit and joy.....
— Albert Castel, author of Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864
A lively, virgorously argued study. Steve Davis contends that William T. Sherman's confident handling of a numerically superior force against the faltering Joseph E. Johnston rendered Union success inevitable. Davis's assessments of Sherman, Johnston, andJohn Bell Hood are sure to spark controversy, but they cannot be ignored....
— Brooks D. Simpson
A first-rate tactical study of a pivotal Civil War battle. Steve Davis's favorable evaluation of John Bell Hood's performance at Atlanta and his condemnation of Joe Johnston will not please all readers, but it will certainly cause them to take another look at this crucial military engagement....
— John F. Marszalek