
All the Fighting They Want
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John Bell Hood brought a hang-dog look and a hard-fighting spirit to the Army of Tennessee. Once one of the ablest division commanders in the Army of Northern Virginia, he found himself, by the spring of 1864, in the war's Western Theater. Recently recovered from grievous wounds sustained at Chickamauga, he suddenly found himself thrust into command of the Confederacy's ill-starred army even as Federals pounded on 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 able 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 all the fighting they want," Sherman said.
He proved a man of his word.
In All the Fighting They Want, Georgia native Steve Davis, the world's foremost authority on 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 a lifetime of living on the ground, make this an indispensable addition to the acclaimed Emerging Civil War Series.
"Military historian Steve Davis vividly presents the last great struggle for the city." - Midwest Book Review
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- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Maps
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PROLOGUE: John Bell Hood at Gaines's Mill
- CHAPTER ONE: The Summer of '64
- CHAPTER TWO: Hood Takes Command
- CHAPTER THREE: The Battle of Peachtree Creek
- CHAPTER FOUR: The Fight for the Bald Hill
- CHAPTER FIVE: Hood's Flank Attack of July 22
- CHAPTER SIX: Sherman's Bombardment and "General" Issues
- CHAPTER SEVEN: Ezra Church
- CHAPTER EIGHT: The McCook-Stoneman Cavalry Raid
- CHAPTER NINE: Hood's Railroad Defense Line and the Fight at Utoy Creek
- CHAPTER TEN: "Too Hot to Be Endured"
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Wheeler's Raid and Kilpatrick's Raid
- CHAPTER TWELVE: Hood Tries to Make Good his Losses
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Sherman's "Grand Movement by the Right Flank"
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: "Atlanta is Ours and Fairly Won"
- EPILOGUE: Measuring Sherman's Achievement
- DRIVING TOUR
- APPENDIX A: Confederate Monuments in and around Atlanta: by Gould Hagler
- APPENDIX B: Civil War Collections at the Atlanta History Center: by Gordon Jones
- APPENDIX C: The Battle of Atlanta on Canvas: A Brief History of the Atlanta Cyclorama: by Gordon Jones
- ORDER OF BATTLE
- SUGGESTED READING
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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