... to replace him. This decision stunned and demoralized Confederate troops just when Hood was compelled to take the offensive against the approaching Federals. Attacking northward from Atlanta's defences, Hood's men struck George H. Thomas's Army of the Cumberland just after it crossed Peach Tree Creek on July...

... French Samuel G Scott Thomas M Castel Albert Connelly Thomas L Smith Gustavus W McMurry Richard Stone Henry Joseph Hooker John Newton John Bell Hood George H. Thomas John W. Geary Peach Tree Creek James B. McPherson At one I attack the … enemy. He has pressed our lines until he is within...

...This chapter shows how Sherman began the campaign against Atlanta with an army group consisting of troops from three different departments within his Military Division of the Mississippi. Major General George H. Thomas's Army of the Cumberland, the largest of the three field armies under his direct...

... Wheeler Joseph Whitehead P F Brown John C Manigault Arthur M Peach Tree Creek Line Smith Gustavus W Beatty Taylor Mackall William W McMurry Richard Stewart Alexander P Peach Tree Creek George H. Thomas John M. Schofield James B. McPherson Green Bone Creek Thomas J. Wood Caleb Dilworth...