Breaking the Confederacy : The Georgia and Tennessee Campaigns of 1864

Making extensive use of materials both contemporary and modern, the author presents a detailed narrative of the locales, conditions, personnel, strategies, tactics, battles and skirmishes as Sherman's forces fought their way from Chattanooga to Atlanta and then made their famous march to the sea.

He also details Confederate general John Bell Hood's ill-fated attempt to capture Nashville while Sherman was occupied elsewhere.

The fighting and devastation in Georgia and Tennessee that summer of 1864 were indeed major factors in the final Union victory.