Category: Clint Brownlee

Book Review: The Campaign For Atlanta, William R. Scaife

The Campaign For Atlanta, by William R. Scaife
Fourth Edition 1993, ISBN 0-9619508-8-9
Kennesaw Mountain Historical Association, Kennesaw Georgia

This is a very well made and printed book.  I suspect it was a short run printing and they did a fine job.  This book is great for discussions of the details of specific battles throughout the campaign.  It is well researched and full of quotes and maps.  I have to say that the maps featured in this book are the best I have come across so far in print.  They show troop positions and movements along with the terrain and most modern roads.  This was a big help while trying to locate areas in Dalton and Resaca.  I am sure it will be a big help as I move forward as well.  This is probably my favorite book of all the Civil War Books I have. 

Here is a link for the book on Amazon.  The Campaign for Atlanta, William R. Scaife
It is a little pricy.  I lucked out and found the last copy at Pickett’s Mill State Historic Site and it cost me $50.00.  You may also be able to find it at the bookstore at the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park.  This bookstore operates in conjunction with the Kennesaw Mountain Historical Association.

Book Review: Fields of Glory

Fields of Glory, A History and Tour Guide of the War in the West, The Atlanta Campaign, 1864
by Jim Miles.  Cumberland House Publishing Nashville Tenn.  2002

This has been my most used and trusted book for finding locations related to the Atlanta Campaign.  I love the way the chapters are set up.  One Chapter gives you a fairly good history of a section of the campaign and then the next chapter is a guided tour of that section.  The directions are good and detailed and I have not found any mistakes in the directions other than the mileage being off by a few 10th here and there, but not enough to matter.  I like the appendix as well.  They offer a few other tours and anecdotes of interest. 

I must give Jim Miles a great deal of thanks, because I am not sure I could have found all the locations that I needed to with out his book.  If you are looking at a driving tour in Georgia and want to visit some Civil War sites, then this is about the best book to use.  I highly recommend this book.

Day 5 of Photography is Done.

     I spent last Sunday afternoon at New Hope Church Battlefield.  I was able to photograph the “Hell Hole” ravine as well as the cemetery and church area.  I got lucky and thunderstorm clouds began to build and help add to the drama of the scene.  There was really horrible thunderstorm 150 years ago to the day, during the battle.  I also was able to photograph the dedication of a monument that was being placed near the earthworks behind the old church.  It was very touching and several speeches were made and an honor guard posted colors.  There was a 21 gun salute and then a three gun artillery battery gave a salute.  I made a few new contacts and saw several people that I knew from previous events.  I made around 500 images in about five hours.  Hopefully I will not get poison Ivy from trudging through the ravine. 

Day Three of Photography is Done!

Today I went to make images in Resaca.    I made images at the area off of Chitwood Rd., an area at E. Nance Springs Rd., Rooker Rd., the Confederate Cemetery, several areas along Camp Creek Valley, Snake Creek Gap, Fort Wayne, the Rail Road bridge over the river and Rome Crossroads.  I will be headed back up there this weekend to photograph the reenactment on Saturday.  It should be pretty cool to have a reenactment on the actual battlefield.  They were up there this morning and had started to set things up.  Check out there website if you interested in going.
The Battle of Resaca, 2014