U.S. Army Campaigns of the Civil War: The Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1861-1865

In The Atlanta and Savannah Campaigns, 1864, author J. Britt McCarley covers the military operations in northern Georgia involving the Union army group led by Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman and the Confederate Army of Tennessee commanded by Generals Joseph E. Johnston and John Bell Hood. The Atlanta Campaign consisted of numerous engagements, including the Battles of Resaca, Kennesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Ezra Church, and Jonesboro. The campaign ended with Sherman’s capture of Atlanta, Georgia, the Confederacy’s largest transportation and manufacturing center in the Deep South. McCarley’s superb account concludes with an examination of the Savannah Campaign, more popularly known as Sherman’s March to the Sea.

High school students and above, including history teachers and professors may be interested in this series as supplemental reading or reseach about the American Civil War. Additionally, military personnel, military science students, and American citizens, especially those living in Georgia or have continued curiosity about the United States Civil War may wish to have this resource for their personnel collection.

All libraries -high school, academic, public, and Federal/State/ Municipal libraries may find this resource complimentary to their historical reference collections about the U.S. Civl War.