Calamity in Carolina : the battles of Averasboro and Bentonville, March 1865 / by Daniel T. Davis and Phillip S. Greenwalt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Daniel T., author.

Greenwalt, Phillip S., author.

Series:

Emerging Civil War series.

Emerging Civil War Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bentonville, Battle of, Bentonville, N.C., 1865.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Battlefields.

United States.

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.

North Carolina.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 p.)

Place of Publication:

El Dorado Hills. California : Savas Beatie, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Robert E. Lee gave Joseph E. Johnston an impossible task.Federal armies under Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman had rampaged through Georgia on their ""March to the Sea"" and now were cutting a swath of destruction as they marched north from Savannah through the Carolinas. Locked in a desperate defense of Richmond and Petersburg, there was little Lee could do to stem Sherman's tide-so he turned to Johnston.The one-time hero of Manassas had squabbled for years with Confederate President Jefferson Davis, eventually leading to his removal during the Atlanta Campaign. The disgraced Johnston had f

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Maps; Acknowledgments; Foreword by Mark A. Moore; Prologue; Chapter One: War is All Hell; Chapter Two: Uncle Billy and His Armies; Chapter Three: The Last Rally of the Western Confederates; Chapter Four: The Battle of Averasboro; Chapter Five: Marching to Battle; Chapter Six: Bentonville Opens; Chapter Seven: Johnston's Grand Assault; Chapter Eight: Reinforcements on the Road; Chapter Nine: Sherman Arrives; Chapter Ten: The Armies Skirmish; Chapter Eleven: Reconnaissance in Force; Chapter Twelve: The Battle Ends

Driving Tour #1: AverasboroDriving Tour #2: Bentonsville; Appendix A: Sherman's March: The Impact on Georgia and the Carolinas by Ashley Webb; Appendix B: Mower's Attack: Yards Short of Total Victory by Robert M. Dunkerly; Appendix C: The Swamp Lizard: The Military Career of Joseph Anthony Mower by Daniel T. Davis; Appendix D: The Road to Bennett Place by Chris Mackowski; Appendix E: Sherman and Johnston: Foes in War, Friends in Peace by Phillip S. Greenwalt; Appendix F: Preserving the Bentonville Battlefield by Donny Taylor; Order of Battle; Suggested Reading; About the Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 6, 2015).

ISBN:

9781611212242

1611212243