Battle of Peach Tree Creek Don't Tread on Me For three days in July

For three days in July 1863

Janney maintains that the participants never fully embraced the reconciliation so famously represented in handshakes across stone walls

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In a recent poll of leading historians

Battle of Peach Tree Creek Don't Tread on Me For three days in Julyby Earl J. Hess On July 20, 1864, the Civil War struggle for Atlanta reached a pivotal moment. As William T. Sherman's Union forces came ever nearer the city, the defending Confederate Army of Tennessee replaced its commanding general, removing Joseph E. Johnston and elevating John Bell Hood. This decision stunned and demoralized Confederate troops just when Hood was compelled to take the offensive against the approaching Federals. Attacking northward