The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864 ( David A. Powell-CWC) photo proponent for emancipation

proponent for emancipation

dismantling prevailing attitudes that consign women to the footnotes of Civil War texts

With concise chapters and inviting prose

extensively revised and edited by J

Sears depicts General Meade's remarkable performance in his first week of army comand and pinpoints General Lee's responsibility in the agonizing failure of the Confederate Army

The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864 ( David A. Powell-CWC) photo proponent for emancipationby David A. Powell For scope, drama, and importance, the Atlanta Campaign was second only to Ulysses S. Grants Overland Campaign in Virginia. Despite its criticality and massive array of primary source material, it has lingered in the shadows of other campaigns and has yet to receive the treatment it deserves. Powells The Atlanta Campaign, Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 119, 1864, the first in a proposed five volume treatment, ends that oversight.