The Army of TennesseeUniversity of Oklahoma Press, 1993 - 503 pages Nowhere in the annals of United States military history is there a more tragic, yet valorous, story than that of the Army of Tennessee. Unlike its companion fighting unit, the Army of Northern Virginia which was commanded throughout the Civil War by one of the great military figures of all time, Robert E. Lee, the history of the Army of Tennessee is one of ever-changing commanders, of bickering and wrangling among its leaders, and a discouraging succession of disappointments and might-have-beens. |
Contents
FOREWORD BY ALBERT CASTEL | vii |
PREFACE | viii |
THE WESTERN BORDER STATES | 15 |
TENNESSEE GIRDS FOR | 47 |
ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON IN COMMAND | 55 |
THE FIRST BATTLES vii xi 15 47 55 | 63 |
122 | 80 |
TO FIGHT ANOTHER | 99 |
MISSISSIPPI INTERLUDE | 211 |
THE RETREAT FROM TENNESSEE | 222 |
CHICKAMAUGA | 239 |
THE CHATTANOOGA CAMPAIGN | 275 |
OLD JOE JOHNSTON RETREATS | 305 |
HOOD TAKES COMMANDATLANTA FALLS | 341 |
HOODS NEW STRATEGYTENNESSEE | 369 |
THE BEGINNING OF THE END FRANKLIN NASHVILLE | 394 |
SHILOH | 122 |
RETREAT AND ADVANCE | 144 |
THE INVASION OF KENTUCKY | 162 |
MURFREESBORO | 190 |
THE | 419 |
NOTES | 429 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 481 |
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