Preview: Davis, “All the Fighting They Want”

If you’ve been reading Bull Runnings for a while, you know that I’ve previewed all of the titles in Savas Beatie’s Emerging Civil War series. And you also know how these books work. Concise histories, lots of maps and illustrations, tough paperbacks, suitable for the field. The really interesting parts, to me anyway, are the appendices. So, for this newest publication, I’m going to give you the bare minimum, and flesh out those appendices for you.

All the Fighting They Want: The Atlanta Campaign from Peachtree Creek to the City’s Surrender, July 18-September 2, 1864, by Stephen Davis

• Four page prologue
• Narrative 115 pages, fourteen chapters
• Eight page epilogue
• Seven Hal Jesperson maps
• Eight page driving tour, with twelve stops
• Appendix A: Confederate Monuments In and Around Atlanta – Gould Hagler
• Appendix B: Civil War Collections at the Atlanta History Center – Gordon Jones
• Appendix C: The Battle of Atlanta on Canvas: A Brief History of the Atlanta Cyclorama – Gordon Jones
• Order of Battle

No footnotes, bibliography, or index in this volume

Stephen Davis is, among other things, former book review editor for Blue & Gray magazine and the author of a previous Emerging Civil War volume on the Atlanta Campaign, A Long and Bloody Task.