El Dorado Hills, Ca.: Savas Beatie, 2024. Pp. xvi, 608. Illus., maps, personae, order of battle, notes, biblio., index. $39.95. ISBN: 1611216958 Sherman Moves on ...

Part II, “The Evening Affair: The Failed Confederate Defensive,” deals with the debate among the generals over whether to stand and fight or withdraw, with Hood and Leonidas Polk urging a withdrawal, ...

1, 1864, Sherman forced Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood and his forces out of Atlanta. For the next two and a half months, Union troops occupied the city to prepare for the next battle campaign.

With Grant and Lee finally deadlocked at Petersburg, we visit the ghastly hospitals north and south and follow General Sherman's Atlanta campaign through the mountains of north Georgia.