Award-winning historian Earl J. Hess is the author of many books on Civil War history, including Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy. He currently holds the Stewart McClelland Chair at Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tennessee.
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While fighting his way toward Atlanta, William T. Sherman encountered his biggest roadblock at Kennesaw Mountain, where Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee held a heavily fortified position. The opposing armies confronted each other from June 19 to Jul... SEE MORE