The Atlanta Campaign, Part 10 | Battle of Peach Tree Creek, Part 1 | Animated Battle Map

[@ronniewatkins]

Thank you, Dr Wilder! My Rheumatologist's office is in the area of Loring Heights in Buckhead, the community in northern Atlanta, so I see what's left of the battle sites (usually a defaced Historic Marker) and it amazes me how so many people bypass these historic areas during the course of their days. Oh well.

[@johnresto1603]

I use to live in Atlanta and it's sad that's there isn't much left.

[@the1magageneral323]

Would you argue that Hood could not have have surprised the Federals at Peachtree creek without precise timing and coordination from the division leaders?

[@philiphales2109]

Precise timing and coordination from Division commanders, and from Corps commanders was essential for such an attack to succeed, as well as having ample artillery support. Lee and Jackson had difficulty achieving this sort of coordination and precision from Division commanders, let alone an inexperienced commander like Hood, who had been promoted beyond his ability. The rough terrain scarred by ravines and covered in thick undergrowth prevented Brigades within Divisions from remaining in close enough proximity to support each other, and one of Mercer’s Regiments hardly entered the fray. Bates’ Division, which could have struck a gap in the Federal lines, got waylaid in a canebrake, never engaging.

[@uwantsun]

A consistent feature of the CSA was constant infighting and bickering over station. that did not plague the north near as much. As for the battle, everyone has a plan, then there's what happens.

[@bludfyre]

This seems pretty common when the entire society is very stratified along rigid class lines (wealthy white landowners, poor whites, non-whites.) The problem is especially prevalent when there is no legal mechanism to designate who is "higher" than another. It happened during the Crusades, when the Irish or Scottish clans tried to combine to fight the English (inevitably, the chief of one clan would betray the others due to a perceived slight,) and throughout history.

[@uwantsun]

@@bludfyre As it is today, in fact.

[@wmschooley1234]

And what exactly was the problem with CSA officers “constant infighting and bickering”? CSA in fighting didn’t create union casualties. Those festering “pools of resentment” undoubtedly contributed directly to crushing the rebellion and the reestablishment of the undivided UNION.

[@g.sergiusfidenas6650]

The Union had those sort of problems pretty much in the same fashion and them being as bitter and detrimental as in the CSA; the Army of the Potomac was a particularly nasty nest of vipers. There are two great presentations about this topic made by the staff of the Gettysburg National Park, one regarding the court martial of Major General Fitzjohn Porter and the other about the congressional hearing about George Meade's conduct after the Battle of Gettysburg which was pretty much orchestrated by Meade's enemies inside the Army, Grant's own career after Shiloh contents a great deal of political skulduggery, Sheridan also got involved in some of that too, etc.

[@scottjunge5992]

Thanks again sir 👍

[@zach7193]

Well, this is something. The Army of Tennessee was dealing with problems in the ranks. Particularly with the officer corps. Made the situation worse.

[@bludfyre]

Seems to have been a constant concern since Stones River, at the least.

[@wmschooley1234]

"Made the situation worse"? Not if your objective is to crush the rebellion. Was Hood being put in command part of a hugely successful covert Union plot to undermine the Army of Tennessee?

[@g.sergiusfidenas6650]

That's Thomas' Army of the Cumberland they were attacking no half-hearted effort could ever carry they day against them; Hardee blundered big time yes.

[@thomaslinton5765]

AI sucks.

[@g.l.5072]

Where's the AI?

[@liberalman8319]

@@g.l.5072who’s the AI?