With Atlanta taken, the Southern cause in Georgia seemed dismal at best. But pugnacious Confederate General John Bell Hood was far from ready to embrace defeat. On September 29, 1864, he led his haggard Army of Tennessee northward to cut the railroads and supply lines that kept Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s forces alive. A part of Hood’s army, under General Samuel Gibbs French, marched hard for Allatoona Pass, where a small Union garrison guarded an important railside supply base and nearby trestle. The assaults continued into the afternoon but the Confederates eventually ran low on ammunition and had to withdraw. The bloody fight had rendered a third of the men on both sides either dead or wounded. Image size: 18” x 29”, overall size: 22 ˝ “ x 33”. |
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