All the Fighting They Want

The Civil War’s Atlanta campaign rages on following A Long and Bloody Task : “More than informative . . . challenges simplistic caricatures of Hood and Sherman” ( The Civil War Monitor ).   John Bell Hood brought a hang-dog look and a hard-fighting spirit to the Army of Tennessee. Once one of the ablest division commanders in the Army of Northern Virginia, he found himself, by the spring of 1864, in the war’s Western Theater. Recently recovered from grievous wounds sustained