Details Sherman’s grueling advance from the Etowah River to Kennesaw Mountain during the 1864 Atlanta Campaign. The scope, drama, and importance of the 1864 Atlanta Campaign was on a par with Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign in Virginia. Despite its criticality and massive array of primary source material, the operations in North Georgia have lingered in the shadows. Award-winning author David A. Powell’s first of five installments, The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1–19, 1864, treated the opening phase of the campaign, weeks of maneuver and several days of heavy fighting at Resaca, after which the Confederates slipped out of Sherman’s traps and escaped across the Oostanaula and Etowah rivers. This second volume, From the Etowah River to Kennesaw Mountain, May 20–June 27, 1864, marches with the armies and their leaders deeper into Georgia. The heavyweight match unfolding between U. S. Grant and Robert E. Lee from the Wilderness to the trenches of Cold Harbor increased the pressure on Sherman to do everything he could to prevent Joe Johnston from sending troops to reinforce the Virginia army.