Results for Union Defense Line
The First Line of Defense: The Union Skirmish Line
After sunset on September 14, 1862, the Confederate cannon...
Union Line of Defense
Finally aware that great numbers of Confederates were marc...
Union Defense Line
In August 1864, after four weeks of siege operations, Maj....
Results for Union Defense Line
The First Line of Defense: The Union Skirmish Line
After sunset on September 14, 1862, the Confederate cannons across the road on School House Ridge vanished in the darkness. The features of the landscape began to blur as the shell-shocked Union soldiers on Bolivar Heights wondered if they could ...
Union Line of Defense
Finally aware that great numbers of Confederates were marching on their camps, the Union Sixth Division organized its first line of defense along the ridge in front of you. Henry M. Stanley, a Confederate infantryman, described what it was like ...
Union Defense Line
In August 1864, after four weeks of siege operations, Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman withdrew his forces to move them secretly around Atlanta on a wide circuit beyond East Point and destroy the railroad at Jonesboro. He had found Atlanta's ...
