Opening Battles Of The Atlanta Campaign
Soldier with staff and pipe
Gen. John B. Hood
Battles Around Atlanta
Soldier
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston
Fallen Soldier
Seven Soldiers
After a council with Hood and Polk, Johnston abandoned the Cassville position
Four long and bloody months
For four long and bloody months, officers and men alike endured the heat and mud of what must have been one of the wettest seasons in the history of Georgia.
Supplements to the rations
Soldiers in both armies had no scruples about supplementing their rations with whatever could be taken from surrounding farms and homes.
Veterans
By 1864 most of the men in the armies that struggled for Atlanta had become veterans, inured to the hardships of military life
A Destroyed Train
Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson
Cavalry
Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman
Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman
Trees
Lt. Col. William H. Martin
Lt. Col. William H. Martin jumped from the trenches waving a white handkerchief and shouting to the Northerners to come and get the wounded men.