The Siege of Atlanta 1864 ~ Samuel Carter III
New York: Bonanza Books‚ 1973‚ Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
*** First Edition ***

CONDITION NOTES

Good+ — in Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper worn at the edges‚ tape-repair to the tail of the spine and a nick to the top edge of the upper panel. The contents deeply age-toned.

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Includes: Plans of battle; Black & white photographs; Maps;

From the cover: “Atlanta was the enemy‚ General Sherman told his Union forces gathered in north Georgia in the spring of 1864: We have been fighting Atlanta all the time… since they have done so much to destroy us‚ we must destroy them. What followed‚ wrote Fletcher Pratt‚ was the greatest campaign in American history. Through ninety miles of mountainous country‚ three Union armies battled with Joseph Johnston’s Army of Tennessee‚ only to be stopped cold at the portals of a city that refused to yield.

Atlanta in 1864 was the key to survival of the South. Though Richmond was the emblematic capital of the Confederacy‚ Atlanta was its beating heart. The city’s workshops and factories boiled with armaments production; its massive fortifications blocked the way to the Southern Heartland and the sea; its defending Army of Tennessee‚ glorious in Confederate annals‚ was the cream of Southern chivalry and fighting prowess. If Atlanta stood‚ Lincoln’s administration might fall in the November…

  • Cover art by Hector Garrido
  • 9¼” x 6¼”
  • pp. (xiii) 425
  • Index.
  • Bibliography.
  • ISBN: 0-5172-3379-7
  • Dustwrapper over Red boards‚ with Gilt titling to the Spine.
  • Packed Weight: 1.70 Kg.



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