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Four long and bloody months

For four long and bloody months, officers and men alike endured the heat.jpg After a council with Hood and Polk, Johnston abandoned the Cassville positionThumbnailsOpening Battles Of The Atlanta CampaignAfter a council with Hood and Polk, Johnston abandoned the Cassville positionThumbnailsOpening Battles Of The Atlanta CampaignAfter a council with Hood and Polk, Johnston abandoned the Cassville positionThumbnailsOpening Battles Of The Atlanta CampaignAfter a council with Hood and Polk, Johnston abandoned the Cassville positionThumbnailsOpening Battles Of The Atlanta CampaignAfter a council with Hood and Polk, Johnston abandoned the Cassville positionThumbnailsOpening Battles Of The Atlanta CampaignAfter a council with Hood and Polk, Johnston abandoned the Cassville positionThumbnailsOpening Battles Of The Atlanta Campaign

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.