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.
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.
