Book Review: Walking the Line- Rediscovering and Touring the Civil War Defenses on Modern Atlanta’s Landscape

Walking the Line: Rediscovering and Touring the Civil War Defenses on Modern Atlanta’s Landscape  Lawrence Krumenaker, Hermograph Press For six weeks in the summer of 1864, Atlanta was defended by a roughly square-shaped perimeter of 36 forts, until the Union threat to secure the last railroad compelled General John Bell Hood to abandon the city …

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