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Clarksville, TN<\/strong> – On Thursday, July 21st, 2016 Author Stephen Davis will be giving a talk, \u201cGeneral John Bell Hood and Confederate Army Command in Tennessee\u201d and signing copies of his book, “A Long and Bloody Task” at the Fort Defiance Civil War Park and Interpretive Center located at 120 Duncan Street, Clarksville, TN.<\/p>\nSpring of 1864 brought a whole new war to the Western Theater, with new commanders and what would become a new style of warfare.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>“A Long and Bloody Task” by Stephen Davis<\/p><\/div>\n
Federal armies, perched in Chattanooga, Tennessee, after their stunning victories there the previous fall, poised on the edge of Georgia for the first time in the war.<\/p>\n
Atlanta sat in the far distance. Major General William T. Sherman, newly elevated to command the Union\u2019s western armies, eyed it covetously\u2014the South\u2019s last great untouched prize.<\/p>\n
\u201cGet into the interior of the enemy\u2019s country as far as you can, inflicting all the damage you can against their war resources,\u201d his superior, Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant, ordered. And so began one of the last great campaigns in the West: Sherman\u2019s long and bloody task.<\/p>\n
The acknowledged expert on all things related to the battle of Atlanta, historian Steve Davis has lived in the area the majority of his life, and in A Long and Bloody Task, he tells the tale of the Atlanta campaign as only a local can. He brings his Southern sensibility to the Emerging Civil War Series, known for its engaging storytelling and
\naccessible approach to history.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Emerging Civil War Series is happily offering more volumes on the Civil War\u2019s Western Theater,\u201d said Davis. \u201cI\u2019m privileged to write for it about the Atlanta Campaign of 1864. The very format of the Series\u2014concise narratives with rich pictorial complement\u2014has allowed me to make what I consider to be the essential points about Sherman and Johnston in a brisk and (I hope) engaging manner. In this way I think I\u2019ve added something of value to the literature of the Atlanta Campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n
About Stephen Davis<\/h3>\n
Stephen Davis, longtime Atlantan, has been a Civil Warrior since the fourth grade. He served as Book Review Editor for Blue & Gray magazine for more than twenty years, and is the author of more than a hundred articles on the Civil War in both scholarly and popular journals.<\/p>\n
He is the author of Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston and the Yankee Heavy Battalions (2001) and What the Yankees Did to Us: Sherman\u2019s Bombardment and Wrecking of Atlanta (2012). Davis\u2019 companion volume on the Atlanta Campaign, All the Fighting They Want: The Atlanta Campaign from Peachtree Creek to the City\u2019s Surrender, July 18th – September 2nd, 1864, will be released by Savas Beatie later this summer.<\/p>\n
About Savas Beatie LLC<\/h3>\n
Savas Beatie LLC is a leading military and general history publishing company. Read more about A Long and Bloody Task, including excerpts from the book and an interview with the author: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/jx2csez.<\/a><\/p>\nAbout Fort Defiance<\/h3>\n