Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Confederate Veteran, Vol. 35: September 1927
Scattering volleys of musketry and a few cannon shots, as the Union skirmishers came in contact with the Confederate outposts; announced the beginning of a con?ict which raged for more than one hundred days throughout the hills and valleys of North Georgia, and in which thousands of brave men gave their lives for a cause they believed to be right.
Behind the impregnable barrier of Rocky Face Mountain, at Dalton, lay the gray veterans of Joe Johnston's army, strong, confident of their ability to repel their opponents if they should attack them in their chosen position.
Sherman, finding Snake Creek Gap undefended, marched his army through it to attack Resaca, but Johnston, quick to detect the movement, threw his troops into, the strong works before him, and held the position there until he found Sherman threatening his rear in the direction of Adairsville.
Thereafter, these two giants in war strategy opposed each other with the ability and skill of masters of the science of war.
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