A Game of Nines

" In the Atlanta Campaign of the Civil War, the Battle of Resaca is not well known because it was short and not decisive. Union Generals Sherman and Thomas had a plan to get ahead of Johnston's Confederate army and race unhindered to Atlanta to shorten the war. That would have been decisive. How they were foiled is the subject of this book. They All Wore a Star, by the same author, is many stories about the battle written by the soldiers themselves, with more detail and many more events, including the experiences of Benjamin Harrison's brigade before the Atlanta Campaign, not covered in A Game of Nines, which is a compelling, shorter, story about the battle itself ". --