Southern history of the war Author:Edward Alfred Pollard Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER in. Sherman's campaign in Georgia. -- How parallel with that in Virginia. -- The tasks of Grant and Sherman compared. -- Numerical inferiority of ... more »General Johnston's forces. -- His proposition to the Richmond authorities. -- Pragmatism of President Davis and his secretary. -- Engagement in Resaca Valley. -- General Johnston' designs. -- Why he retreated. -- His disappointment of a buttle at Cassville. -- En- Gaoekent At New Hops ' iiuitoH. -- True theory of the retrograde movement of Johnston. -- Battlb Of Kim:,-Aw Mountain. -- Sherman's confession. -- Sherman master of the Chattahoochee. -- Johnston falls buck to Atlanta. -- The vexed question of Johnston's retreat, -- What it surrendered. -- What it secured. -- Its strategic advantages. -- The enemy's movements in Virginia and Georgia both in check. -- Disappointment of the enemy. -- Statistics of Yankee recruiting. -- Another Confederate success. -- Defeat of Stnrgis. -- " The Avengers of Fort f illow." -- Barbarities of the enemy's summer campaign. -- Augmentation of Yankee ferocity. -- Ita effect on the Confederates. -- Offensive operation of the Confederates. -- Three projects of invasion. -- Early's Invasion or Maryland,« less