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William Tecumseh Sherman blazed a path from Chattanooga to Marietta in just over a month. With a numerically superior fighting force, better armed and better supplied, he outmaneuvered Joseph E. Johnston at Dalton, Resaca, Kingston, and most recently Dallas and north
Marietta.
Situated in Ac(k)worth, he had some of the war's most able commanders under him. General George Thomas, the "Rock of Chickamauga," who single-handedly saved the day during the battle in which he earned the nickname, in command of the Army of the Cumberland. James B. McPherson led the Army of the Tennessee, the dashing general who was a favorite of both Grant and Sherman, and John Schofield, the rotund Ohioan commanded the Army of the Ohio. Others who played a major role in the engagement were Joseph 'Fighting Joe' Hooker, who was never above a little self-aggrandizement. During the Battle of Kolb's Farm Hooker would claim that the entire Confederate Army was attacking him. Daniel McCook, whose family earned the sobriquet "The Fighting McCooks", led the attack at the Dead Angle.
Opposing them stood Johnston's Army of Tennessee. Over the last month, in the initial phases of the Atlanta Campaign, Johnston had been successful at his plan of inflicting greater losses on his enemy than his men suffered. The recent loss of Leonidas Polk a few days before taking a position at Kennesaw Mountain had cost Johnston not
only a good field commander and beloved leader, but also a close
friend. Polk, an Episcopal bishop, had baptized Johnston at the start
of The Atlanta Campaign .
Newly appointed W. W. ("Old Blizzard") Loring was untested in his position as Corps commander. Beside him was William Hardee, a Georgia native who time and again proved his worth in battle. At the southern end of the line was
the impetuous John Bell Hood, who's attack at Kolb's Farm had stopped the Union soldiers in their tracks. Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, the hard-drinking Tennessean, came up against a significant part of the Union Army at the Dead Angle. His men fought so hard and bravely that the rise they defended came to be known as Cheatham Hill. And Patrick Cleburne, just north of Frank Cheatham, who had recently been passed over for command of Polk's Corp, in part because he was a foreigner, in part because he advocated freeing the slaves in return for service in the Confederate Army. In late June, 1864, these men and almost 200,000 of the men they commanded would meet west of the town of Marietta, Georgia, and engage in what William Tecumseh Sherman's biographer would call "A Needless Waste of Lives."
The Civil War in Georgia
Beginning with the Great Locomotive Chase and the battle of Chickamauga, to the Atlanta Campaign and the March to the Sea
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