In the Atlanta Campaign today, Union cavalry under General William T. Sherman are currently entrenched at Allatoona Pass, west of Atlanta. Here they control a railroad that provides access to supplies and troop reinforcements. On the morrow Sherman withdraws his soldiers from Dallas and begins moving them to Allatoona Pass in order to ascertain control…
Today Union General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Robert E. Lee clash yet again as Union forces continue maneuvering in an effort to outflank Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia and advance upon Richmond. Today’s action takes places less than 20 miles from the Confederate capital in the Battle of Totopotomoy Creek, also known as…
As he has done daily since early May, Union General William T. Sherman relentlessly pressures the Confederate’s Army of Tennessee, in the process drawing ever closer to the key Georgia city of Atlanta. Attempting to make an end run around Confederate General Joe Johnston‘s forces, Sherman’s troops swing wide to the left of the rebels,…