Friday, May 16, 2014

May 17, 1864---The Battle of Adairsville, Georgia


MAY 17, 1864:

The Battle of Adairsville, Georgia. William Tecumseh Sherman’s inexorable blue juggernaut rolls slowly southward toward Atlanta. General Joseph E. Johnston C.S.A. holds a war council with his subordinate commanders, Leonidas Polk and John Bell Hood, who both convince a skeptical Johnston that the Union army is too strong to be resisted. Units of the Confederate Army of Tennessee engage Union troops in a delaying action while the bulk of the Rebel force withdraws across the Etowah River toward Rome, Georgia. Casualties are light, but the South is giving ground perhaps unnecessarily.


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