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The Battle of Ezra Church and the Struggle for Atlanta
By Hess, Earl J.
- ISBN
- 9781469622415 9781469622422
- Publisher
- Univ. of North Carolina
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Reviewed on May 1, 2015 | Social Sciences
Civil War scholar Hess (history, Lincoln Memorial Univ.; The Union Soldier in Battle) presents a detailed revisionist history of the Battle of Ezra Church, one of three key confrontations for control of Atlanta that prefaced Union general William Tecumseh Sherman's famous March to the Sea in 1864. This first book-length study of the battle challenges a longstanding contention, based on comparative casualty figures, that Confederate soldiers had little chance to prevail in their ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
