Award-winning historian Earl J. Hess is the author of many books on Civil War history, including Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy. He currently holds the Stewart McClelland Chair at Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tennessee.
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On July 20, 1864, the Civil War struggle for Atlanta reached a pivotal moment. As William T. Sherman's Union forces came ever nearer the city, the defending Confederate Army of Tennessee replaced its commanding general, removing Joseph E. Johnston and ele... SEE MORE