Slaughter at the Chapel: The Battle of Ezra Church 1864 (Gary Ecelbarger - CWC) wooden on February 27

on February 27

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Slaughter at the Chapel: The Battle of Ezra Church 1864 (Gary Ecelbarger - CWC) wooden on February 27by Gary Ecelbarger The Battle of Ezra Church was one of the deadliest engagements in the Atlanta Campaign of the Civil War and continues to be one of the least understood. Both official and unofficial reports failed to illuminate the true bloodshed of the conflict: one of every three engaged Confederates was killed or wounded, including four generals. Nor do those reports acknowledge the flawslet alone the ultimate failureof Confederate commander John