The Atlanta Campaign may be slow going for the Union, but progress is being made. Conversely, Confederate officials and the Southern public have grown quite frustrated with General Joseph Johnston‘s propensity of retreating when confronted by Union General William T. Sherman. To be sure, Sherman has not necessarily been playing by the book. Rather than…
Atlanta is not the only thing on Union General William T. Sherman‘s mind. While capturing the strategic city is his uppermost objective, Sherman’s thoughts also drift further southward. In particular, the general is troubled at the reports he is hearing out of Andersonville Prison, an open air prison camp in southwest Georgia housing nearly 30,000…
Today in the Battle of Tupelo in Lee County, Mississippi, Union General Major General A. J. Smith, commanding some 14,000 men, is attacked by Confederate Lieutenant General Stephen D. Lee wielding a force of some 8,000. The Rebel attack, however, is largely uncoordinated, allowing Smith and his forces to easily repel the enemy. Within a…