Long and Bloody Task

"Explores the first phase of General William Tecumseh Sherman''s Atlanta Campaign in the summer of 1864 . . . Clear and concise" (The Civil War Monitor). Poised on the edge of Georgia for the first time in the war, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, newly elevated to command the Union''s western armies, eyed Atlanta covetously—the South''s last great untouched prize. "Get into the interior of the enemy...