Böcker av Earl J. Hess

"The Battle of Atlanta, also known as the Battle of July 22 [1864] (the only engagement of the Civil War widely referred to by the date of its occurrence), was the largest and most prominent engagement of the four-month-long Atlanta Campaign for control of Atlanta. The Battle of Atlanta was the second engagement of the campaign, fought just east of the city. Confederate commander John Bell Hood's forces flanked William T. Sherman's line and crushed the end of it, they could go no further. Yet the Confederates came closer to achieving a major tactical victory on July 22 than on any other day of the Atlanta campaign. One scholar commented that Hess is "taking fresh and interesting approaches and looking at aspects of the battle, the personalities that fought it, the terrain and other factors that shaped its course and outcome, and analyzing and assessing events and people in ways that make a truly unique contribution to scholarship.""--

The Tar Heels were one of the hardest-fighting units in the Army of Northern Virginia, Hess draws on letters, diaries, memoirs and service records to explore the camp life, social backgrounds and political attitudes as well as chronicling their military engagements.

A native of Warren County, Iowa, Cyrus F. Boyd served a year and a half as an orderly sergeant with the Fifteenth Iowa Infantry before becoming first lieutenant in Company B of the Thirty-Fourth Iowa Infantry. His diary offers a full account of soldiering in the Union Army.