One of the most dramatic and decisive episodes of the Civil War, the Atlanta Campaign was a military operation carried out on a grand scale across a spectacular landscape that pitted some of the war's best (and worst) general against each other. A couple of months, dozens of battles, and more than 30,000 casualties later, the North takes Atlanta. Yanks crowd around two Rebel generals, soliciting and obtaining autographs.Īs they part, a Confederate calls to a Yankee, "I hope to miss you, Yank, if I happen to shoot in your direction." "May I, never hit you Johnny if we fight again," comes the reply. Northern coffee is swapped for Southern tobacco. For two hours, Yankees and Rebels mingle, with some of the latter even assisting the former in their grisly work.
)įollowing a skirmish on June 28, 1864, a truce is called so the North can remove their dead and wounded. (Following a skirmish on June 28, 1864, a truce is called. Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864 (Modern War Studies)
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