War Like the Thunderbolt
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Battle of Atlanta
Battle of Bald Hill
Battle of Chickamauga
Battle of Ezra Church
Battle of Franklin
Battle of Jonesboro
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
Battle of Missionary Ridge
Battle of Peachtree Creek
Battle of Utoy Creek
Bombardment of Atlanta
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Civil War Atlanta Campaign
Civil War Georgia
Civil War Georgia militia
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Free Blacks
Gone with the Wind
John Bell Hood
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Patrick Cleburne
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Sherman March to the Sea
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William J. Hardee
William Tecumseh Sherman
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- ISBN 9781594161278
- Publication Date: 02 Sep 2010
- Publisher: Westholme Publishing, U.S.
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In War Like the Thunderbolt: The Battle and Burning of Atlanta, Russell S. Bonds presents the epic story of what one observer called "the greatest event of the Civil War"--the struggle for the city of Atlanta. Union commanderWilliam Tecumseh Sherman's relentless fight for Atlanta secured the reelection of Abraham Lincoln, sealed the fate of the Southern Confederacy, and set a precedent for military campaigns that endures today.Based on new research in diaries, previously unpublished letters, newspapers, and other archival sources, War Like the Thunderbolt takes the reader across smoky battlefields and into the lives of fascinating characters, both thefamous and the forgotten, including the fiery and brilliant Sherman; General John Bell Hood, the Confederacy's last hope to defend Atlanta; the diminutive young Indiana colonel, Benjamin Harrison, who would rise to becomePresident of the United States; and ten-year-old diarist Carrie Berry, who bravely bore witness to the fall of the city.
War Like the Thunderbolt, like its fictional counterpart Gone With the Wind, is also the story of the ordeal ofAtlanta itself--the five-week artillery bombardment, the expulsion of its civilian population, and the infamous fire that followed. Beautifully written and authoritative, War Like the Thunderbolt is a stirring account of the battle andburning of the "Gate City of the South."
