The Confederate’s Army of the Tennessee, led by General John Bell Hood, departs Florence, Alabama today, en route to Tennessee. Altogether, the Rebels field 30,000 soldiers and 8,000 cavalry in the planned invasion of Tennessee. This is the largest Confederate army in the field other than General Robert E. Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia, currently…
Now fully on the march westward and southward from Atlanta, Union General William T. Sherman‘s army is spread out from the vicinity of Jackson to Oxford. His exact intentions are unclear to citizens of Georgia, yet many cities and towns in the potential path of the army have little, if any, resources to prepare defenses.…
One day after departing from Atlanta proper on the March to the Sea, the army of U.S. General William T. Sherman destroys the railroad track to the north of Stone Mountain (the city having been effectively destroyed by the Federals in July). White citizens had fled when the Union army approached the day before. When…