May 14, 1864: Battle of Resaca Learn More Suggested Readings Barry L. Brown and Gordon R. Elwell, Crossroads of Conflict: A Guide to Civil War Sites in Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010). Albert E. Castel, Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992). James Lee McDonough and James Pickett Jones, War So Terrible: Sherman and Atlanta (New York: Norton, 1987). William Scaife, The Campaign for Atlanta (Saline, Mich.: McNaughton and Gunn, 1993). Philip L. Secrist, The Battle of Resaca: Atlanta Campaign, 1864 (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1998). “Battle of Resaca.” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3567&sug=y Historical Markers related to the Battle of Resaca: • Battle of Resaca, Gordon County • Battle of Resaca, Gordon County • Battle of Resaca May 14-15, 1864, Gordon County • Battle of Resaca May 14-15, 1864, Gordon County • Battle of Resaca, May 14, 1864, Gordon County • Campaign for Atlanta: Johnston's Review, Whitfield County • Confederate Cemetery Resaca, Gordon County • Johnston’s Review, Whitfield County – erected buy the Georgia Historical Society Friends of the Resaca Battlefield: http://www.resacabattlefield.org/FoRstart.html www.todayingeorgiahistory.org May 14, 1864: Battle of Resaca Image Credits Battle of Resaca Library of Congress Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-01856 Battle of Resaca Library of Congress Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-102052 Chattanooga, Tenn. Confederate Library of Congress Library of Congress Prints and prisoners at railroad depot Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpb-02116 Digging Guns out of Rebel Library of Congress Library of Congress Prints and Battery Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-105285 General Harrison - Battle of Library of Congress Library of Congress Prints and Resaca Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-01864 General Sherman Library of Congress Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpb-07136 General Sherman's campaign Library of Congress Library of Congress Prints and entering Resaca Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-103109 Joe Johnston Library of Congress Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-103202 www.todayingeorgiahistory.org May 14, 1864: Battle of Resaca Image Credits Joe Johnston's surrender Library of Congress Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-1621 Resaca Battle Sketch Library of Congress Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-22388 Atlanta, Ga. Gen. William T. Library of Congress Library of Congress Prints and Sherman on horseback at Federal Photographs Division, Fort No. 7 LC-DIG-cwpb-03628 Sherman and staff 1864 Library of Congress Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-stereo-1s02837 Union pickets approached by Library of Congress Library of Congress Prints and Rebels in cedar bushes near Photographs Division, Chattanooga LC-USZ62-96124 Union soldier with damaged Library of Congress Library of Congress Prints and railroad Photographs Division, LC-DIG-stereo-1s02800 Map of Resaca Library of Congress Battle of Resaca, Library of Congress, Civil War Maps Collection Map of the Atlanta Campaign Library of Congress Map of the Atlanta Campaign, Library of Congress, Civil War Maps Collection www.todayingeorgiahistory.org May 14, 1864: Battle of Resaca Image Credits Alva Sinks - Letter recounting Georgia Historical Society Alva Sinks letter, MS 732, fighting in Dalton, GA Courtesy of The Georgia Historical Society Battlefield of Resaca Ga, 1864 Georgia Historical Society Battlefield of Resaca Ga, 1864 -- Courtesy of the National Archive, B-540 T252 Gen Sherman and Staff National Archives Gen. Sherman and Staff, Courtesy of the National Archives, B-4561 T252 www.todayingeorgiahistory.org .