Following a skirmish on June 28, 1864, a truce is called so the
North can remove their dead and wounded. For two hours, Yankees and
Rebels mingle, with some of the latter even assisting the former in
their grisly work. Newspapers are exchanged. Northern coffee is
swapped for Southern tobacco. Yanks crowd around two Rebel
generals, soliciting and obtaining autographs.
As they part, a Confederate calls to a Yankee, "I hope to miss
you, Yank, if I happen to shoot in your direction." "May I, never
hit you Johnny if we fight again," comes the reply.
The reprieve is short. A couple of months, dozens of battles,
and more than 30,000 casualties later, the North takes Atlanta.
One of the most dramatic and decisive episodes of the Civil War,
the Atlanta Campaign was a military operation carried out on a
grand scale across a spectacular landscape that pitted some of the
war's best (and worst) general against each other.
In "Decision in the West," Albert Castel provides the first
detailed history of the Campaign published since Jacob D. Cox's
version appeared in 1882. Unlike Cox, who was a general in
Sherman's army, Castel provides an objective perspective and a
comprehensive account based on primary and secondary sources that
have become available in the past 110 years.
Castel gives a full and balanced treatment to the operations of
both the Union and Confederate armies from the perspective of the
common soldiers as well as the top generals. He offers new accounts
and analyses of many of the major events of the campaign, and, in
the process, corrects many long-standing myths, misconceptions, and
mistakes. In particular, he challenges the standard view of
Sherman's performance.
Written in present tense to give a sense of immediacy and
greater realism, Decision in the West demonstrates more
definitively than any previous book how the capture of Atlanta by
Sherman's army occurred and why it assured Northern victory in the
Civil War.
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