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| phungus |
Original Post: Jun 05 '07, 2:53 pm |
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Civil War books
I am trying to find a book that has some material on the Battle of Peachtree Creek that took place right outside of Atlanta. Any recommendations? |
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| dramastef |
Posted: Jun 06 '07, 5:25 am |
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RE: Civil War books
Quote: phungus I am trying to find a book that has some material on the Battle of Peachtree Creek that took place right outside of Atlanta. Any recommendations?
I suppose that Gone With the Wind doesn't count, huh? |
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| scmrak |
Posted: Jun 06 '07, 8:12 am (Updated: Jun 06 '07, 8:13 am) |
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Try entering the phrase "battle of peachtree creek" at Amazon.com - search returns get a CD-based driving tour of the battleground plus a few dozen mentions of the battle in different books. If you go to the battle's page at Wikipedia, there are some references including an article in "About North Georgia" that in turn references a book called Fields of Glory: A History and Tour of the Atlanta Campaign.
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| phungus |
Posted: Jun 07 '07, 1:28 pm |
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RE: Civil War books
Quote: scmrak Try entering the phrase "battle of peachtree creek" at Amazon.com - search returns get a CD-based driving tour of the battleground plus a few dozen mentions of the battle in different books. If you go to the battle's page at Wikipedia, there are some references including an article in "About North Georgia" that in turn references a book called Fields of Glory: A History and Tour of the Atlanta Campaign.
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rex
Good advice...I did that and found one that is EXACTLY what I am looking for. Of course, my local Booksamillion didn't have it in stock! It's a Yankee conspiracy. |
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| scmrak |
Posted: Jun 08 '07, 6:57 am |
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Quote: phungus Of course, my local Booksamillion didn't have it in stock! It's a Yankee conspiracy. Ummm, for that to be the case, some ----yankee would have had to have infiltrated Booksamillion HQ in Birmingham. And you know no Yankee can fake an Alabama accent...
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| pvreditor |
Posted: Jun 15 '07, 5:41 am |
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Being s southern boy, you probably don't want to read William T. Sherman's memoirs, but it has a good account of the Battle of Peachtree Creek from Sherman's perspective. You might want to pick it up in a bookstore and find the section on Peachtree Creek.
BTW... isn't every creek in Georgia called Peachtree Creek?
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| phungus |
Posted: Jun 15 '07, 6:28 am |
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Quote: pvreditor Being s southern boy, you probably don't want to read William T. Sherman's memoirs, but it has a good account of the Battle of Peachtree Creek from Sherman's perspective. You might want to pick it up in a bookstore and find the section on Peachtree Creek.
BTW... isn't every creek in Georgia called Peachtree Creek?
--Bob
There's nothing wrong with reading the thoughts of the enemy...that might be interesting.
What I'm looking for is something specific. I had a relative who won the Confederate Medal of Honor at that battle, and I'm trying to find some records of battlefield accounts to figure out EXACTLY how it all went down. I intend to write a book about his life.
From what I know, my cousin picked up the flag (which was a death sentence, in a way) and charged all the way up to the front lines screaming "COME ON, BOYS!" It is said that he was still waving the flag when he went down.
There was a lot of bad things that happened at Peachtree, such as a last minute change of command, and so on. It would teach a great lesson for all the details of the story to come out. I intend to write it entirely from the perspective of the soldiers who were at the mercy of their incompetent and overzealous leaders.
Seems to me that such a story might have some relevance today, don't you think? |
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