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Melton, Brian C. (2007) Sherman's Forgotten General. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-1739-4. Nevin, David and the Editors of Time-Life Books (1986) Sherman's March: Atlanta to the Sea. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books ISBN 0-8094-4812-2. Trudeau, Noah Andre. (2008) Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the ...
The Battle of Atlanta took place during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War on July 22, 1864, just southeast of Atlanta, Georgia.Continuing their summer campaign to seize the important rail and supply hub of Atlanta, Union forces commanded by William Tecumseh Sherman overwhelmed and defeated Confederate forces defending the city under John Bell Hood.
Sherman's forces had previously approached Atlanta from the east and north and had not been able to break through, so Sherman decided to attack from the west. He ordered Howard's Army of the Tennessee to move from the left wing to the right and cut Hood's last railroad supply line between East Point and Atlanta.
After a plea by Father Thomas O'Reilly of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Sherman did not burn the city's churches or hospitals. [90] However, the remaining war resources were then destroyed in Atlanta and in Sherman's March to the Sea. One of the major buildings that was destroyed was Edward A. Vincent's railroad depot, built in ...
The primary reason that Atlanta does not have an abundance of older structures is that the vast majority of pre-civil war buildings were destroyed in Sherman's March to the Sea, in which General William T. Sherman and his Union troops burned nearly every structure in Atlanta during the Civil War. Thus, those pre-civil war buildings that remain ...
According to Miller, Brainerd is currently booked in the Anderson County Detention Center and is awaiting a bond hearing. This article originally appeared on Greenville News: 79-year-old Anderson ...
The Lindner brothers' most recent book First Light on the Water highlights the life lessons they learned on and off the water and how faith guides their life. [10] Lindner's faith and how he molds it and his sport fishing career has been featured in the April 2005 issue of Charisma , [ 11 ] the July/August issue of New Man magazine , [ 12 ] and ...
The House of the Dragon season 2 finale is full of confounding decisions. Alongside Daemon Targaryen’s (Matt Smith) vision and another promise that war is coming, Aemond Targaryen (Ewan Mitchell ...