... 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...

... control, fielded more than sixty thousand men and 130 guns. Major General James B. McPherson's Army of the Tennessee brought more than twenty-four thousand men and 96 guns to the army group, with another corps on the way to bolster its ranks. Major General John M. Schofield brought more than thirteen...

... Clayton Henry D Ferguson Samuel W Gibson Randall L Hardee William J Cleburne Patrick R Oliver O. Howard Benjamin F. Cheatham Peach Tree Creek Line Outer Line James B. McPherson John M. Schofield John Newton This business of approaching prepared parapets, from the rough nature of this wooded...

...This chapter shifts its focus to Hindman's counterpart in blue—Brigadier General John M. Schofield, commander of the District of Missouri. Schofield was a highly regarded 1853 graduate of West Point whose classmates included John B. Hood, James B. McPherson, and Philip H. Sheridan. After a tour...

...Uneven action characterized Federal attacks all along the Union line. In James B. McPherson’s Seventeenth Corps, which held the center of Grant’s line, the only serious attack was conducted by Thomas E. Ransom’s brigade and it failed to come closely to grips with the entrenched Confederates on its...

... 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...

... Marshall John Wesley William J. Hardee John Newton Patrick R. Cleburne John Bell Hood Buck Head and Atlanta Road James B. McPherson Here they come, boys! By God, a million of them. —unidentified Federal skirmisher Never was I under a heavier fire than there…. I thought I would certainly see my...

... the combined force might launch a coordinated attack. Meanwhile, James B. McPherson’s other division, commanded by Isaac F. Quinby, advanced to the south of Logan to demonstrate against the Confederates but did not launch an attack. Davis John P Fort Hill Grant Ulysses S Great Redoubt Hébert Louis...

... far. Initially Grant did not trust these reports, exposing his long term difficulties with McClernand. In fact, the Thirteenth Corps commander was not trusted by colleagues William T. Sherman or James B. McPherson. Nevertheless, Sherman urged Grant to comply with McClernand’s request, not believing...