Decisions at Kennesaw Mountain: The Eleven Critical Decisions That Defined the Battle

＂As General William Tecumseh Sherman set his sights on Atlanta in the summer of 1864, he fought several small battles-Resaca, Pickett’s Mill, and skirmishes around Marietta-against an ever-retreating General Joseph E. Johnston who had replaced the beleaguered General Braxton Bragg as leader of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. After heavy rains slowed Sherman’s advance, Johnston shored his army up along the Brushy Mountain line. With Johnston’s army well entrenched and Sherman unable to flank him because of the mountains and impassable roads, Sherman noted in his reports to Washington, ’Kennesaw is the key to the whole country.’ Intended for the Command Decisions in America’s Civil War series, this book explores eleven critical decisions that affected the outcome of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain and why the battle unfolded as it did＂--

LARRY PETERSON retired from United Airlines as a Boeing 757/767 Standards Captain. He is the author of four other books in the Command Decisions series: Decisions at Chattanooga, Decisions of the Atlanta Campaign, Decisions of the 1862 Kentucky Campaign, and Decisions at Perryville. He also served as president of the Rocky Mountain Civil War Round Table for five years.