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    Kennesaw Mountain

    Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 10 min

    While fighting his way toward Atlanta, William T. Sherman encountered his biggest roadblock at Kennesaw Mountain, where Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee held a heavily fortified position. The opposing armies confronted each other from June 19 to July 3, 1864, and Sherman initially tried to outflank the Confederates. His men endured heavy rains, artillery duels, sniping, and a fierce battle ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Pickett's Charge--The Last Attack at Gettysburg

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    Series series Civil War America
    Sweeping away many of the myths that have long surrounded Pickett’s Charge, Earl Hess offers the definitive history of the most famous military action of the Civil War. He transforms exhaustive research into a moving narrative account of the assault from both Union and Confederate perspectives, analyzing its planning, execution, aftermath, and legacy. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    The Battle of Ezra Church and the Struggle for Atlanta

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 29 min

    Fought on July 28, 1864, the Battle of Ezra Church was a dramatic engagement during the Civil War's Atlanta campaign. Confederate forces under John Bell Hood desperately fought to stop William T. Sherman's advancing armies as they tried to cut the last Confederate supply line into the city. Confederates under General Stephen D. Lee nearly overwhelmed the Union right flank, but Federals under ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Into the Crater

    The Mine Attack at Petersburg

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    A comprehensive examination of the iconic Civil War battle, its tragic outcome, and the personalities involvedThe battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864, was the defining event in the 292-day campaign around Petersburg, Virginia, in the Civil War and one of the most famous engagements in American military history. Although the bloody combat of that "horrid pit" has been recently revisited as the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • July 22

    The Civil War Battle of Atlanta

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    So remarkable was the fighting to the east of Atlanta on July 22, 1864, that it earned its place as the only engagement of the Civil War to be widely referred to by the date of its occurrence. Also known as the Battle of Atlanta, this was the largest engagement of the four-month-long Atlanta Campaign for control of the city and the region. Although Confederate commander John Bell Hood’s forces ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Managing the Union Army

    Scott, McClellan, Halleck, and Grant as General-in-Chief

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    The general-in-chief did not command the million-man Union army that fought in the Civil War, as most historians have assumed; rather, he was a member of a management team that included the president and the secretary of war. The president, as commander-in-chief, created the position by appointing an officer to it, and he could dismiss that officer at any time and choose not to appoint another. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Civil War Logistics

    A Study of Military Transportation

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    Winner of the Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies by the New York Military Affairs SymposiumDuring the Civil War, neither the Union nor the Confederate army could have operated without effective transportation systems. Moving men, supplies, and equipment required coordination on a massive scale, and Earl J. Hess’s Civil War Logistics offers the first comprehensive analysis of this vital process ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Shattered Courage

    Soldiers Who Refused to Fight in the American Civil War

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    From renowned Civil War historian Earl J. Hess comes a study of Union and Confederate soldiers as never seen before. Shattered Courage examines the experience of the men who refused to fight on the day of battle.When Abraham Lincoln took the oath of presidential office on March 4, 1865, he urged the country to care for those “who shall have borne the battle”—a reference to the Union soldiers who ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Civil War Field Artillery

    Promise and Performance on the Battlefield

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    The American Civil War saw the creation of the largest, most potent artillery force ever deployed in a conflict fought in the Western Hemisphere. It was as sizable and powerful as any raised in prior European wars. Moreover, Union and Confederate artillery included the largest number of rifled pieces fielded in any conflagration in the world up to that point. Earl J. Hess’s Civil War Field ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • In the Trenches at Petersburg

    Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    Series series Civil War America
    In the Trenches at Petersburg, the final volume of Earl J. Hess’s trilogy of works on the fortifications of the Civil War, recounts the strategic and tactical operations around Petersburg during the last ten months of the Civil War. Hess covers all aspects of the Petersburg campaign, from important engagements that punctuated the long months of siege to mining and countermining operations, the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Civil War Infantry Tactics

    Training, Combat, and Small-Unit Effectiveness

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    For decades, military historians have argued that the introduction of the rifle musket-with a range five times longer than that of the smoothbore musket-made the shoulder-to-shoulder formations of linear tactics obsolete. Author Earl J. Hess challenges this deeply entrenched assumption. He contends that long-range rifle fire did not dominate Civil War battlefields or dramatically alter the course ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Knoxville Campaign

    Burnside and Longstreet in East Tennessee

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    “Hess’s account of the understudied Knoxville Campaign sheds new light on the generalship of James Longstreet and Ambrose Burnside, as well as such lesser players as Micah Jenkins and Orlando Poe. Both scholars and general readers should welcome it. The scholarship is sound, the research, superb, the writing, excellent.” —Steven E. Woodworth, author of Decision in the Heartland: The Civil War in ... Read more

    $22.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus