In Palmetto, Georgia this day, Confederate President Jefferson Davis meets with generals John Bell Hood and William Hardee. Hood, commander of the defeated Army of the Tennessee, blames subordinate general Hardee, who had commanded one of three corps under Hood, for the loss of Atlanta to Sherman. Hardee disagrees, and asks to be removed from…
In Virginia the forces of Union General Philip Sheridan maintain pursuit of Confederate General Jubal Early‘s forces, albeit at a slow enough pace to allow ample time to burn crops, barns, forage and whatever else they think would have been useful to the Confederacy. Meanwhile, forces under the command of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest…
Despair grows ever deeper in the state of Georgia. Atlanta, formerly one of the most important and strategic cities in the Confederacy, is occupied by the enemy. The city’s citizens are scattered to the winds, having been forcefully evacuated by order of Union General William T. Sherman. Meanwhile, the South’s Army of the Tennessee seems…