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The Battle of Peach Tree Creek: Hood's First Effort To Save Atlanta
By Hess, Earl J.
- ISBN
- 9781469634197 9781469634203
- Publisher
- Univ. of North Carolina
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Starred Review on August 1, 2017 | Social Sciences
Hess (Braxton Bragg) analyzes and evaluates the Battle of Peach Tree Creek's central role in the broader context of the Atlanta Campaign of 1864. The Federal forces were led by George H. Thomas's Army of the Cumberland, and the Rebel Army of Tennessee was initially commanded by Joseph E. Johnston and his unpopular successor John Bell Hood. The author insists that the Confederacy's ensuing defeat might have been avoided had Confederate...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
