Stephen davis author civil war timeline
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A Long and Bloody Task: The Atlanta Campaign from Dalton through Kennesaw Mountain to the Chattahoochee River, May 5-July 18, 1864 by Stephen Davis. Savas Beatie, 2016. Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-61121-317-1. $14.95.
The publisher Savas Beatie has undertaken an enormous intellectual challenge with its ongoing Emerging Civil War Series. The books in this series are short, compact, and aimed at introducing readers of all ages to the essentials of Civil War history, yet they are simultaneously nuanced, complex, and full of depth. Finding a balance between these sometimes contradictory goals is extremely difficult, and the series editors deserve praise for their good work. Stephen Davis’s A Long and Bloody Task is mostly successful in meeting the goals of the Emerging Civil War Series.
A Long and Bloody Task explores the first phase of General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign in the summer of 1864. Davis’s overarching thesis is that Sherman’s successful movements toward Atlanta—and the eventual destruction of the city through federal cannonade and bombardment—were largely the fault of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston’s inept generalship. Johnston’s inability to stop Sherman is the result of his overly defensive postu
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December 11, 2017 – This week, our time machine travels back to the American Civil War in All the Fighting They Want: The Atlanta Campaign from Peach Tree Creek to the City’s Surrender, July 18-September 2, 1864. Our guide on this journey is Stephen Davis, a longtime Atlantan and Civil War enthusiast since the fourth grade. All the Fighting They Want serves as a companion to his previous paperback, A Long and Bloody Task: The Atlanta Campaign from Dalton through Kennesaw to the Chattahoochee, May 5-July 18, 1864.
The books are part of the Emerging Civil War Series, published by Savas Beatie LLC. Learn more about their titles at SavasBeatie.com or on Twitter @SavasBeatieLLC.
Stephen Davis has served as Book Review Editor for Blue & Gray magazine for more than twenty years, and you’ve seen his many articles in scholarly and popular journals. His previous books are 2001’s Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston and the Yankee Heavy Battalions, and 2012’s What the Yankees Did to Us: Sherman’s Bombardment and Wrecking of Atlanta.
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BookChat: The Beleaguering Daily Intelligencer Covers representation Civil War, by Author Davis boss Bill Hendrick
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