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The Road Past Kennesaw, the Atlanta Campaign of 1864 by Richard Manning McMurray.

Forward.

The turning point of the Civil War is a perennial matter of dispute among historians.

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Foreword of The Road Past Kennesaw, The Atlanta Campaign of 1864.

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The Road Past Kennesaw, The Atlanta Campaign of 1864 by Richard Manning McMurry.

Foreword.

The turning point of the Civil War is a perennial matter of dispute among historians.

He survived Perryville.

He survived Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, the Atlanta Campaign, Franklin, Nashville.

Every major engagement of the Western Theater.

Out of the 120 men who enlisted with him in Company H in 1861, seven were present at the surrender in 1865.

Grant is able to smash Bragg's army.

that is, without Longstreet's men, which opens the way to the Atlanta Campaign and eventually, of course, Sherman's march to the sea in 1864.

After the defeat at Chattanooga, Bragg is finally relieved of command to the relief of basically everybody who has served under him, but finds himself appointed as Jefferson Davis's chief military advisor, so he kind of failed upward.

But this position holds little real power, and it's basically just given to him as a favor.