The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 2: From the Etowah River to Kennesaw Mountain, May 21 to June 27, 1864

The scope, drama, and importance of the 1864 Atlanta Campaign was on a par with Ulysses S.Grant’s Overland Campaign in Virginia. Despite its criticality and massive array of primary source material, the north Georgia operations have lingered in the shadows of other campaigns.Award-winning author David Powell’s first of five installments, The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864, treated the opening phase of the campaign-weeks of maneuver and several days of heavy fighting at Resaca, after which the Confederates slipped out of Sherman’s traps and escaped across the Oostanaula and Etowah rivers.His second offering, From the Etowah River to Kennesaw Mountain, May 21 to June 27, 1864, marches with the armies and their leaders deeper into Georgia. The heavyweight match unfolding between Grant and Lee in the Wilderness and fields and woodlots of Spotsylvania increased the pressure on Sherman to do everything he could to prevent Joe Johnston from sending troops to r