General Resources – Atlanta Campaign/The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
Books in the CRC Library (with call number first):
E470.5 .W66 2006 “Kennesaw.” Nothing But Victory: The Army of the Tennessee. Steven E. Woodworth.
E476.7 .A86 1980 The Atlanta Papers. Sydney C. Kerksis.
E476.7 .B34 1998 Kennesaw Mountain, June 1864: Bitter Standoff at the Gibraltar of Georgia. Richard Baumgartner.
E476.7 .B34 U56 2005 Battle of Kennesaw Mountain Staff Ride and Battle Analysis Resources. US Army Signal Center Command History Program.
E476.7 .C28 1992 Decision in the West: the Atlanta Campaign of 1864. Albert Castle.
E476.7 .C87 1987 Atlanta. Jacob D. Cox.
E476.7 .D66 2016 Atlanta 1864: Sherman Marches South. James Donnell.
E476.7 .H46 2015 The Battle of Ezra Church and the Struggle for Atlanta. Earl J. Hess.
E476.7 .H465 2018 Fighting for Atlanta: Tactics, Terrain, and Trenches in the Civil War. Earl J. Hess.
E476.7 .H47 2013 Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign. Earl J. Hess.
E476.7 .J47 2015 To the Gates of Atlanta: From Kennesaw Mountain to Peach Tree Creek, July 1-July 19, 1864. Robert D. Jenkins.
E476.7 .K47 1981 The Battle of Atlanta and the Georgia Campaign. William Key.
E476.7 .M25 2014 The Atlanta and Savannah Campaigns, 1864. J. Britt McCarley.
E476.7 .M636 1989 Fields of Glory: A History and Tour Guide of the War in the West, the Atlanta Campaign, 1864. Jim Miles.
E476.7 .S27 1985 The Campaign for Atlanta. William R. Scaife.
Websites:
Kennesaw Mountain and the Atlanta Campaign. (Video.) National Park Service. 2014
Kennesaw 150th Dead Angle Tour. (Video.) National Park Service. 2014
Kennesaw: One Last Mountain. (Video.) National Park Service. 2014
Sherman vs Hood: The Fight for Kennesaw Mountain.” (Video.) 2021.
Sherman’s ‘Flying Column’ at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. (Video.) Dr. J. Britt McCarley. The U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center.
The Civil War – 1864 Atlanta Campaign. (Video.) C-SPAN. 2014.
American Battlefield Trust – Information on the Atlanta Campaign & the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain:
“Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.” John Fowler. New Georgia Encyclopedia.
Online Articles:
“Another Napoleonic War” Earl Hess. Civil War Times. America: History and Life Database.
“The Atlanta Campaign of 1864: A New Look.” Richard M. McMurry. Civil War History. America: History and Life Database.
“The Battle of Atlanta and McPherson’s Successor.” James P. Jones. Civil War History. America: History and Life Database.
“Billy Yank and Johnny Reb on the Road to Atlanta.” Bell Irvin Wiley. Civil War Times. America: History and Life Database.
“Cheatham Hill: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain – June 27, 1864.” Stephen Davis. American Battlefield Trust.
“’A Great Deal of Hard Fighting.’” Keith Bohannon. Civil War Times. America: History and Life Database.
“’The Maddest Folly of the Campaign’: A Diarist and a Poet Confront Kennesaw Mountain.” Matthew O’Brien. Civil War History. America: History and Life Database.
“On the War Path.” Earl J. Hess. American Battlefield Trust.
“A Perfect Pandemonium: The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.” John D. Fowler. Hallowed Ground. America Battlefield Trust.
“Pandemonium on Kennesaw Mountain.” Drew Kendall. Military History. ProQuest Military Database.
“Prelude to Kennesaw: Battle of Kolb’s Farm – June 22, 1864.” Stephen Davis. American Battlefield Trust.
“Sherman’s ‘Battle from May to September’.” D. Reid Ross. Journal of the West. America: History and Life Database.
Command and General Staff College Monographs:
The Atlanta Campaign. Samuel E. Otto. 1937.
Atlanta Campaign: Principle of the Objective Revisited. John G. Coombs. 1975
Critical Analysis of the Atlanta Campaign, May 5 - September 1, 1864. Louis P. Ford. 1932.
Hard Hands at a Glance: Decision-making Mechanisms and the Case of William T. Sherman in 1864. David A. Zelaya. 2021
