Today the armies consolidated under Confederate General John Bell Hood are gathering in Dallas, Georgia, in preparation of receiving new orders. Despite the Rebels best efforts following the fall of Atlanta, the city is still firmly under Union control and Federal supply lines to Tennessee remain operational. Meanwhile, in one of the odder battles of…
In the Shenandoah Valley, the cavalry forces of Union General George Armstrong Custer, serving under General Philip Sheridan, have been torching “every barn, hill and haystack” that they pass as they travel through the valley. Over-matched, Confederate forces have watched and fumed as their winter stores are destroyed. Today, however, the Rebels attack two of…
Today in the north Georgia mountains near Cartersville the Battle of Allatoona Pass takes place as the first major act in what becomes known as Confederate General John Bell Hood‘s Nashville Campaign, an offensive in north Georgia and central Tennessee designed to disrupt Union infrastructure and draw Sherman’s forces away from Atlanta. Confederate forces, having…