Explains the political and historical significance of Sherman's Atlanta campaign, discusses the strategy of the campaign, and looks at the leadership on both sides

War So Terrible: Sherman and Atlanta

History

McDonough, James Lee

Jones, James Pickett

Americas

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Black Jack: John A. Logan and Southern Illinois in the Civil War Era (Shawnee Classics)

John A. Logan, called "Black Jack" by the men he led in Civil War battles from the Henry-Donelson campaign to Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and on to Atlanta, was one of the Union Army’s most colorful generals. James Pickett Jones places Logan in his southern Illinois surroundings as he examines the role of the political soldier in the Civil War. When Logan altered his stance on national issues, so did the southern part of the state. Although secession, civil strife, Copperheadism, and the new attitudes created by the war contributed to this change of position in southern Illinois, Logan’s role as political and military leader was important in the region’s swing to strong support of the war against the Confederacy, to the policies of Lincoln, and eventually, to the Republican party.

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Southern Illinois University Press

John A. Logan, called "Black Jack" by the men he led in Civil War battles from the Henry-Donelson campaign to Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and on to Atlanta, was one of the Union Army’s most colorful generals. James Pickett Jones places Logan in his southern Illinois surroundings as he examines the role of the political soldier in the Civil War. When Logan altered his stance on national issues, so did the southern part of the state. Although secession, civil strife, Copperheadism, and the new attitudes created by the war contributed to this change of position in southern Illinois, Logan’s role as political and military leader was important in the region’s swing to strong support of the war against the Confederacy, to the policies of Lincoln, and eventually, to the Republican party.

This work is a sequel and tells John Logan's postwar story. It covers topics such as reconstruction, regional and national Republican party politics, military policies, developing tariff policies, and the 1884 presidential race.

John A. Logan: Stalwart Republican from Illinois (Shawnee Classics (Reprinted))

John A. Logan: Stalwart Republican from Illinois

Univ Pr of Florida

Yankee Blitzkrieg is the first comprehensive survey of Wilson's Raid, the largest independent mounted expedition of the Civil War. The Confederacy was reeling when Wilson's raiders left their camps along the Tennessee River in March 1865 and rode south. But there was talk of prolonged rebel resistance in the deep South using the agricultural and industrial facilties of a sweep of territory that ran from Macon to Meridian. That area had hardly been touched by the war, and in Columbus, Georgia, and Selma, Alabama, the South had two of its most productive industrial communities. Twenty-seven year-old General Wilson was certain his large, well-officered, well-trained, and well-armed cavalry corps could deny the Confederates a redoubt in the heart of Alabama and Georgia. Wilson, like many cavalry leaders, north and South, believed the mounted arm had been grievously misused through four years of war. But in March 1865, armed with support from Grant, Sherman, and Thomas, Wilson at last could test the theory that massed heavily armed cavalry could strike swiftly in great strenghth and press to quick victory. . . . Wilson's strategy was to get there "first with the most men," and it would be tested against the man who had invented the very phrase, Nathan Bedford Forrest. ―from the book

Yankee Blitzkrieg: Wilson's Raid through Alabama and Georgia

University Press of Kentucky

“Jones handles the narrative details of the campaign in good fashion. He sets the context of events, with full appreciation of the command question involved, and includes the reactions of individual officers and enlisted men. . . . Excellent.” -American Historical Review

Yankee Blitzkrieg: Wilson's Raid Through Alabama and Georgia

Univ Pr of Kentucky

Yankee Blitzkrieg: Wilson's Raid Through Alabama and Georgia (A Brown Thrasher Book)

Univ of Georgia Pr

Book by Jones, James Pickett, McCarthy, Kevin M.

The Gators and the Seminoles: Honor, Guts and Glory

McCarthy, Kevin M.

Maupin House Pub

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War So Terrible: Sherman and Atlanta

Black Jack: John A. Logan and Southern Illinois in the Civil War Era (Shawnee Classics)

Black Jack: John A. Logan and Southern Illinois in the Civil War Era (Shawnee Classics)

John A. Logan: Stalwart Republican from Illinois (Shawnee Classics (Reprinted))

John A. Logan: Stalwart Republican from Illinois

Yankee Blitzkrieg: Wilson's Raid through Alabama and Georgia

Yankee Blitzkrieg: Wilson's Raid Through Alabama and Georgia

Yankee Blitzkrieg: Wilson's Raid Through Alabama and Georgia (A Brown Thrasher Book)

The Gators and the Seminoles: Honor, Guts and Glory