Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman’s Worst Mistake
We remember Sherman as the man who never lost. That’s not quite the record. On June 27, 1864, he ordered a frontal assault on entrenched Confederate positions at Kennesaw Mountain, northwest of Atlanta. It cost him roughly 3,000 casualties against about 1,000 for Johnston’s dug-in defenders. The attack gained nothing. What interests me as a […]