Slaughter at the Chapel: The Battle of Ezra Church 1864 (Gary Ecelbarger CWC) civilians Andrew Jackson was an orphan Color:Burnt Orange Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power White contends that this was not wholly due to a political or social conversion to the Republican Party 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 Nor do those reports acknowledge the flaws—let alone the ultimate failure—of Confederate commander John Bell Hood’s plan to thwart Union general William Tecumseh Sherman’s southward advance