From Kennesaw Mountain to the Chatahoochee River

The article takes an in-depth look at the middle phase of the Atlanta Campaign, from the withdrawal of General Joseph Johnston’s Confederate army from the battlefield at Kennesaw Mountain on the night of July 2, 1864, to the largely uncontested crossing of the Chattahoochee River by General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Union forces at Sope’s Creek on July 8, 1864, less than a week later.

The commanders during the Atlanta Campaign, Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston (left) and Union General William Tecumseh Sherman (right)