The Day Dixie Died by Gary L. Ecelbarger

In the end, ten thousand men-one out of every six-became casualties on that fateful day, but the Union lines had held. Dramatically, General John 'Black Jack' Logan stepped into McPherson's command, rallied the troops, and grimly fought for the rest of the day. army commander was killed in battle, and in the wake of his death, the Union army staggered. Furthermore, for the first and only time during the war, a U.S. forces with unrelenting assault after assault. During it, a dreadful foreboding arose among the Northerners as the battle was undecided and dragged on for eight interminable hours. The resulting Battle of Atlanta was a monstrous affair fought in the stifling Georgia summer heat. Johnston just four days earlier, Hood had been charged with the duty of reversing a Confederate retreat and meeting the Union army head on.

On the morning of July 22, 1864, Confederate forces under the command of General John Bell Hood squared off against the Army of the Tennessee led by General James B.

In the North, a growing peace movement and increasing criticism of President Abraham Lincoln's conduct of the war threatened to halt U.S. One of the most dramatic and important battles ever to be waged on American soil, the Battle of Atlanta changed the course of the Civil War and helped decide a presidential election.

The Day Dixie Died by Gary L. Ecelbarger