War Like the Thunderbolt The Battle and Burning of Atlanta 2nd Edition by Russell Bonds ISBN 978-1594161278 1594161275

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ISBN 10:  1594161275

ISBN 13: 978-1594161278

Author: Russell Bonds

A masterpiece of prose and research, the definitive history of the struggle for Atlanta during the Civil War, an episode immortalized by the novel Gone with the Wind
Called “the greatest event of the Civil War” by New York diarist George Templeton Strong, the epic struggle for the city of Atlanta in the bloody summer of 1864 was a pivotal moment in American history. Union commander William Tecumseh Sherman’s relentless fight for the city secured the reelection of Abraham Lincoln, sealed the fate of the Southern Confederacy, and set a precedent for military campaigns that endures today. Its depiction in the novel and motion picture Gone with the Wind established the fight for Atlanta as an iconic episode in our nation’s most terrible war. In War Like the Thunderbolt: The Battle and Burning of Atlanta, award-winning author Russell S. Bonds takes the reader behind the lines and across the smoky battlefields of Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Ezra Church, and Jonesboro, and into the lives of fascinating characters, both the famous and the forgotten, including the fiery and brilliant Sherman; General John Bell Hood, the Confederacy’s last hope to defend Atlanta; Benjamin Harrison, the diminutive young Indiana colonel who would rise to become President of the United States; Patrick Cleburne, the Irishmanturned- Southern officer; and ten-year-old diarist Carrie Berry, who bravely withstood and bore witness to the fall of the city. Here also is the dramatic story of the ordeal of Atlanta itself—the five-week artillery bombardment, the expulsion of its civilian population, and the infamous fire that followed. Based on new research in diaries, newspapers, previously unpublished letters, and other archival sources, War Like the Thunderbolt is a combination of captivating narrative and insightful military analysis—a stirring account of the battle and burning of the “Gate City of the South.”

Table of contents: 

1. Crazy Bill: The Banks of the Chattahoochee, July 1864

2. The Gamecock: Confederate Headquarters, Atlanta, July 17

3. Old Woodenhead: Hood Takes Command

4. Hood’s First Sortie: The Battle of Peachtree Creek, July 20

5. Night March: Skirmishing and First Shots, July 21-22

6. “An Iliad of Woes”: Bald Hill, or The Battle of Atlanta, July 22

7. The Battle of the Poor House: Ezra Church, July 28

8. “A Used-Up Community”: The Bombardment of Atlanta

9. “I Have Atlanta In My Hand”: The Battle of Jonesboro, August 31–September 1

10. “A Day of Terror and a Night of Dread”: The Surrender of Atlanta, September 2

11. Yankee Town: Occupation and Expulsion, September–October

12. The Whole World on Fire: The Burning of Atlanta

13. Resurgens: Atlanta Rebuilds

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