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All the Fighting They Want: The Atlanta Campaign from Peachtree Creek to the City’s Surrender, July 18-September 2, 1864 (Emerging Civil War Series)

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John Bell Hood brought a hang-dog look and a hard-fighting spirit to the Army of Tennessee. Once probably the most ablest division commanders within the Army of Northern Virginia, he found himself, by the spring of 1864, within the war’s Western Theater. Recently recovered from grievous wounds sustained at Chickamauga, he all of sudden found himself thrust into command of the Confederacy’s in poor health-starred army whilst Federals pounded at the door of the Deep South’s greatest untouched city, Atlanta.

His predecessor, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, had failed to stop the advance of armies under Federal commander William T. Sherman, who had pushed and maneuvered his way from Chattanooga, Tennessee, right to Atlanta’s very doorstep. Johnston had been ready to do little to stop him.

The crisis could not have been more acute.

Hood, an aggressive risk-taker, threw his men into the fray with unprecedented vigor. Sherman welcomed it.

“We’ll give them The entire fighting they would like,” Sherman said.

He proved a man of his word.

In The entire Fighting They Want, Georgia native Steve Davis, the world’s foremost authority at the Atlanta campaign, tells the tale of the last great struggle for the city. His Southern sensibility and his knowledge of the battle, accumulated over an entire life of living at the ground, make this an indispensable addition to the acclaimed Emerging Civil War Series.

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