Just for the record, Sherman is still dead. One hundred and fifty-eight years have passed, as of this week, since the Battle of Atlanta. The battle and its immediate precursor, the Battle of Peachtree ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - On July 22 in 1864, Union and Confederate forces began fighting in one of Georgia’s greatest Civil War battles – the Battle of Atlanta. Atlanta was the largest industrial, ...

I. THE AFFAIR OF SYMRNA CAMPGROUND. IT is difficult to answer the question often asked, “ When did the battle of Atlanta begin ? ” One could commence an account very properly with Sherman’s spring ...

When war came to Atlanta in July 1864, the landmarks included Peachtree Creek along what is now Collier Road in Buckhead. Ezra Church was near I-20 at Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. The Copenhill land ...

With this book Earl Hess has given us his sixth book covering different parts of the Atlanta Campaign, this time focusing on the Battle of July 22, 1864, which sometimes is referred to as the Battle ...

Although not a Gettysburg-style showstopper, the middling-sized (about 10,000 casualties) 1864 battle of Atlanta emerges as one of the Civil War's more dramatic engagements in this vivid recreation.

The Battle of Atlanta, as depicted in the 128-year-old Cyclorama painting now housed in Grant Park in Atlanta. The vast painting -- 50 feet high, 400 feet long and weighing more than 9,000 in its ...

The 145th anniversary of the Battle of Atlanta The story of this pivotal 1864 Campaign from Tennessee to the Sea is witnessed and told from the common soldiers point of view Kennesaw Mountain ...