The Tennessee Campaign of 1864 (fülszöveg)
Few American Civil War operations matched the controversy, intensity, and bloodshed of Confederate general John Bell Hood's ill-fated 1864 campaign against Union forces in Tennessee. In the first-ever anthology on the subject, The Tennessee Campaign of 1864, edited by Steven E. Woodworth and Charles D. Grear, fourteen prominent historians and emerging scholars examine the three-month operation, covering the battles of Allatoona, Spring Hill, and Franklin, as well as the decimation of Hood's army at Nashville.
Contributors explore the campaign's battlefield action, including the courageous actions of the U.S. Colored Troops and the success of Major General Andrew J. Smith's three aggressive divisions of the Army of Tennessee at Nashville, how vastly outnumbered Union troops held the Allatoona Pass, why Hood failed at Spring Hill, and why so many of the Army of Tennessee's officer corps died at the Battle of Franklin. Two exciting inclusions are the diary of Confederate major general Patrick K. Cleburne and an innovative case study of the fighting at Franklin that investigates the emotional and psychological impact of killing on the battlefield. Other essays cover the strained relationship between Ulysses S. Grant and George H. Thomas, how the war affected civilians in the campaign's path and those miles away, and how preservation efforts met with differing results at Franklin and Nashville.
Canvassing both military and social history, this well-researched volume offers new, illuminating perspectives while furthering long-running debates on more familiar topics. These in-depth essays provide an expert appraisal of one of the most brutal and notorious campaigns in Civil War history.
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