Atlanta 1864 : last chance for the Confederacy / Richard M. McMurry.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-222) and index.

1. Presidents and Generals -- 2. Grand Strategy for 1864 -- 3. Preparations for the Field -- 4. The Best Laid Plans -- 5. To the Oostanaula -- 6. On to the Etowah -- 7. Into the Hell Hole -- 8. On the Kennesaw Line -- 9. Across the Chattahoochee -- 10. On Other Fields -- 11. Hood Takes Command -- 12. The Rebels Strike Back -- 13. Battle for the Macon and Western -- 14. "Let Old Abe Settle It" -- App. 1. Chickamauga Fever and Grant's Grand Strategy for 1864 -- App. 2. Numbers and Losses -- App. 3. Johnston's Railroad Strategy -- App. 4. The Atlanta Campaign and the Election of 1864.

"Atlanta 1864 brings to life this crucial campaign of the Civil War, as federal armies under William T. Sherman contended with Joseph E. Johnston and his successor, John Bell Hood, and moved steadily through Georgia to occupy the rail and commercial center of Atlanta. Sherman's efforts were undertaken as his former commander, Ulysses S. Grant, set out on a similar mission to destroy Robert E. Lee or drive him back to Richmond.

These struggles were the millstones that Grant intended to use to grind the Confederacy's strength into dust. By fall, Sherman's success in Georgia had assured the re-election of Abraham Lincoln and determined that the federal government would never acquiesce in the independence of the Confederacy. Richard M. McMurry examines the Atlanta campaign as a political and military unity in the context of the greater struggle of the war itself."--BOOK JACKET.