David A. Powell is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute (1983) with a BA in history. He has published many articles in various magazines and more than fifteen historical simulations. For the past decade his focus has been on the epic battle of Chickamauga, and he is nationally recognized for his tours of that battlefield. David is the author of many books including The Chickamauga Campaign trilogy, The Maps of Chickamauga, and Failure in the Saddle. He won the Nevins-Freeman Award given by the Chicago Civil War Round Table and his first installment of The Atlanta Campaign was a finalist for the Army Historical Foundation’s Distinguished Writing Award. David and his wife Anne live with their trio of Bloodhounds in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, Illinois.
""Never before has the Atlanta Campaign had this detail of treatment. Powell's multivolume series is breaking new ground in terms of depth and analysis, and this second volume adds tremendously to our understanding of those critical events north of Atlanta that led to the climactic battles around the city later that summer.""--Timothy B. Smith, author of Shiloh: Conquer or Perish and The Iron Dice of Battle: Albert Sidney Johnston and the Civil War in the West ""With this second volume, David Powell continues his riveting blow-by-blow description of the fighting in the red clay of North Georgia. The reader gets the story from the vantage of wrenching decisions made at command headquarters down to the sufferings of the soldiers in the rain-drenched trenches. At stake was the soul of the nation. No serious student of the Western Theater can bypass this series; it is simply that important.""--Larry Daniel, author of Richmond Views the West: Politics and Perceptions in the Confederate Capital ""Powell has delivered another gem on the road to Atlanta. His groundbreaking The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864, provided primary accounts from diaries, newspapers, and letters with new insights and interpretations of the fight for Georgia. This installment takes us deeper into Georgia and the battles from the New Hope Line to the heights of Kennesaw Mountain. This invaluable work also provides fresh revelations and interpretations and deepens our understanding of the struggles faced by Sherman and Johnston and their exhausted armies as the war dragged into its fourth summer. This series is a must-read for any student of the Atlanta Campaign.""--Robert D. Jenkins, Sr., author of The Cassville Affairs: Johnston, Hood, and the Failed Confederate Strategy in the Atlanta Campaign, 19 May 1864