Analogy Backfire: should we note that the actual Battle of Kennesaw Mountain was a tactical victory for the Confederates? Up to that point during the campaign, Sherman and Johnston had been playing a cat-and-mouse game with one another in which the Federals maneuvered around each Confederate defensive position, forcing Johnston to fall back to the next one. Sherman was convinced to try a frontal assault on the Army of Tennessee at Kennesaw Mountain, however, and was repulsed with several thousand casualties for his pain; after that sharp rebuke, he went back to his previous strategy of flanking Johnston, advancing to the Chattahoochee River. This caused Jefferson Davis to fire Johnston, who up to that point had been able to keep his army basically intact, with John Bell Hood, who threw away thousands of men in futile frontal assaults on the besieging Union troops during July and was eventually forced to evacuate Atlanta (as shown in both movie and book) at the end of August.
Analogy Backfire: should we note that the actual Battle of Kennesaw Mountain was a tactical victory for the Confederates? Up to that point during the campaign, Sherman and Johnston had been playing a cat-and-mouse game with one another in which the Federals maneuvered around each Confederate defensive position, forcing Johnston to fall back to the next one. Sherman was convinced to try a frontal assault on the Army of Tennessee at Kennesaw Mountain, however, and was repulsed with several thousand casualties for his pain; after that sharp rebuke, he went back to his previous strategy of flanking Johnston, advancing to the Chattahoochee River. This caused Jefferson Davis to fire Johnston, who up to that point had been able to keep his army basically intact, with John Bell Hood, who threw away thousands of men in futile frontal assaults on the besieging Union troops during July and was eventually forced to evacuate Atlanta (as shown in both movie and book) at the end of August.