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The Battle of Peach Tree Creek : Hood's First Sortie, July 20 1864 by Robert D. Jenkins and Robert D. Jenkins Sr. (2014, Hardcover)

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Binding: Hardcover, Hardcover. Weight: 2.13 lbs. Publication Date: 2014-01-31. Number of Pages: 553. ISBN10: 0881463965.

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The Battle of Peach Tree Creek marked the beginning of the end for the Confederacy, for it turned the page from the patient defense displayed by General Joseph E. Johnston to the bold offense orchestrated by his replacement General John Bell Hood. Until this point, the Confederates had fought primarily in the defensive from behind earthworks, forcing Federal commander William T. Sherman to either assault fortified lines, or go around them in flanking moves. At Peach Tree Creek, the roles would be reversed for the first time, as Southerners charged Yankee lines. The Gate City, as Atlanta has been called, was in many ways the capstone to the Confederacy's growing military-industrial complex and was the transportation hub of the fledgling nation. For the South, it had to be held. For the North, it had to be taken. With General Johnston removed for failing to parry the Yankee thrust into Georgia, the fate of Atlanta and the Confederacy now rested on the shoulders of thirty-three-year-old Hood, whose body had been torn by the war. Peach Tree Creek was the first of three battles in eight days in which Hood led the Confederate Army to desperate, but unsuccessful, attempts to repel the Federals encircling Atlanta. This particular battle started the South on a downward spiral from which she would never recover. After Peach Tree Greek and its companion battles for Atlanta, the clear-hearing Southerner could hear the death throes of the Confederacy. It was the first nail in the coffin of Atlanta and Dixie. Book jacket.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Mercer University Press
ISBN-10
0881463965
ISBN-13
9780881463965
eBay Product ID (ePID)
167965207

Product Key Features

Author
Robert D. Jenkins Sr., Robert D. Jenkins
Publication Name
Battle of Peachtree Creek : Hood's First Sortie, July 20 1864
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
277 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in

Additional Product Features

Copyright Date
2014
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, FL, GA, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Lccn
2013-030163
Dewey Decimal
973.7371
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
History