The Road Past Kennesaw: The Atlanta Campaign Of 1864

About this film

LibriVox recording of The Road Past Kennesaw: The Atlanta Campaign Of 1864 by Richard M. McMurry. Read in English by David Wales “…there can be little doubt that the Federal drive on Atlanta, launched in May 1864, was the beginning of the end for the Southern Confederacy…. The Atlanta Campaign had an importance reaching beyond the immediate military and political consequences. It was conducted in a manner that helped establish a new mode of warfare. From beginning to end, it was a railroad campaign, in that a major transportation center was the prize for which the contestants vied, and both sides used rail lines to marshal, shift, and sustain their forces…. and one of the most impressive features of Richard McMurry’s account is the insight—much of it gleaned from unpublished letters and diaries—into the motivations, experiences, and reactions of the participants. The officers and men who endured the heat and the mud of what must have been one of the wettest seasons in the history of Georgia and who lived in the shadow of death day after day for 4 months of as arduous campaigning as occurred during the whole conflict, stand out as flesh and blood human beings.” (Book Foreword by not…

Directors & creators

Richard M. McMurry

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;American civil war; civil war; military strategy; Confederacy; william tecumseh sherman; atlanta campaign 1864; joseph eggleston johnston; john bell hood

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