Product Description: After Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's forces ravaged Atlanta in 1864, Ulysses S. Grant urged him to complete the primary mission Grant had given him: to destroy the Confederate Army in Georgia. Attempting to draw the Union army north, General John Bell Hood's Confederate forces focused their attacks on Sherman's supply line, the railroad from Chattanooga, and then moved across north Alabama and into Tennessee...read more

Product Description: "McDonough brings such passionate perspective to this amazing and heretofore largely unknown story that it's nearly impossible to put down."--James R. Hansen, prizewinning aerospace historian and bestselling author of First Man: The Life of Neil A...read more

In an attempt to rid the South of the Union forces of General William Tecumseh Sherman, Confederate General John Bell Hood fought a critical battle at Nashville, as chronicled in a fascinating account of the complexities of the conflict and the personalities who fought it.

Recounts the Civil War battles fought in Kentucky, and explains the state's strategic importance during that war

Describes in detail the Civil War battle at Chattanooga, Tennessee and examines the military strategies of the Union and Confederate leaders

Explains the political and historical significance of Sherman's Atlanta campaign, discusses the strategy of the campaign, and looks at the leadership on both sides