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Four long and bloody months

For four long and bloody months, officers and men alike endured the heat.jpg Opening Battles Of The Atlanta CampaignThumbnailsAfter a council with Hood and Polk, Johnston abandoned the Cassville positionOpening Battles Of The Atlanta CampaignThumbnailsAfter a council with Hood and Polk, Johnston abandoned the Cassville positionOpening Battles Of The Atlanta CampaignThumbnailsAfter a council with Hood and Polk, Johnston abandoned the Cassville positionOpening Battles Of The Atlanta CampaignThumbnailsAfter a council with Hood and Polk, Johnston abandoned the Cassville positionOpening Battles Of The Atlanta CampaignThumbnailsAfter a council with Hood and Polk, Johnston abandoned the Cassville positionOpening Battles Of The Atlanta CampaignThumbnailsAfter a council with Hood and Polk, Johnston abandoned the Cassville position

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.