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Author |
: Sean Michael Chick |
Publisher |
: Savas Beatie |
Total Pages |
: 193 |
Release |
: 2023-05-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781611216387 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1611216389 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis They Came Only to Die by : Sean Michael Chick
The November 1864 battle of Franklin left the Army of Tennessee stunned. In only a few hours, the army lost 6,000 men and a score of generals. Rather than pause, John Bell Hood marched his army north to Nashville. He had risked everything on a successful campaign and saw his offensive as the Confederacy’s last hope. There was no time to mourn. There was no question of attacking Nashville. Too many Federals occupied too many strong positions. But Hood knew he could force them to attack him and, in doing so, he could win a defensive victory that might rescue the Confederacy from the chasm of collapse. Unfortunately for Hood, he faced George Thomas. He was one of the Union’s best commanders, and he had planned and prepared his forces. But with battle imminent, the ground iced over, Thomas had to wait. An impatient Ulysses S. Grant nearly sacked him, but on December 15-16, Thomas struck and routed Hood’s army. He then chased him out of Tennessee and into Mississippi in a grueling winter campaign. After Nashville, the Army of Tennessee was never again a major fighting force. Combined with William Tecumseh Sherman’s march through Georgia and the Carolinas and Grant’s capture of Petersburg and Richmond, Nashville was the first peal in the long death knell of the Confederate States of America. In They Came Only to Die: The Battle of Nashville, historian Sean Michael Chick offers a fast-paced, well analyzed narrative of John Bell Hood’s final campaign, complete with the most accurate maps yet made of this crucial battle.
Author |
: Mark Lardas |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 97 |
Release |
: 2017-10-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472819833 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1472819837 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nashville 1864 by : Mark Lardas
In September 1864, the Confederate army abandoned Atlanta and were on the verge of being driven out of the critical state of Tennessee. In an attempt to regain the initiative, John Bell Hood launched an attack on Union General Sherman's supply lines, before pushing north in an attempt to retake Tennessee's capital Nashville. This fully illustrated book examines the three-month campaign that followed, one that confounded the expectations of both sides. Instead of fighting Sherman's Union Army of the Tennessee, the Confederates found themselves fighting an older and more traditional enemy: the Army of the Cumberland. This was led by George R. Thomas, an unflappable general temperamentally different than either the mercurial Hood or Sherman. The resulting campaign was both critical and ignored, despite the fact that for eleven weeks the fate of the Civil War was held in the balance.
Author |
: Madison Jones |
Publisher |
: J.S. Sanders Books |
Total Pages |
: 145 |
Release |
: 2006-11-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781461733218 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1461733219 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nashville 1864 by : Madison Jones
This award-winning novel follows twelve-year-old Steven Moore and his slave companion on a nightmarish journey behind Union lines.
Author |
: Michael Thomas Smith |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 202 |
Release |
: 2014-07-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780313392351 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0313392358 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis The 1864 Franklin-Nashville Campaign by : Michael Thomas Smith
This appealing narrative history of one of the Civil War's most pivotal campaigns analyzes how the western Confederate army under John B. Hood suffered a devastating defeat at the hands of George H. Thomas's Union forces. Ideal for general readers interested in military history of the Civil War as well as those concentrating on the western campaigns, The 1864 Franklin-Nashville Campaign: The Finishing Stroke examines how the strategic and tactical decisions by Confederate and Union commanders contributed to the smashing Northern victories in Tennessee in November–December 1864. The book also considers the conflict through the lens of New Military History, including the manner in which the battles both affected and were affected by civilian individuals, the environment, and common soldiers such as Confederate veteran Sam Watkins. The result of author Michael Thomas Smith's extensive research into the Civil War and his recognition of inadequate coverage of the final western campaigns in the existing literature, this work serves to rectify this oversight. The book also questions the concept of the outcome of the Civil War as being essentially attributable to superior Northern organization and management—the "organized war to victory" theory as termed by its proponents.
Author |
: Steven E. Woodworth |
Publisher |
: SIU Press |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2016-01-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780809334537 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0809334534 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Tennessee Campaign of 1864 by : Steven E. Woodworth
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 how Major General Andrew J. Smith’s three aggressive divisions of the Army of Tennessee became the most successful Federal unit at Nashville, how vastly outnumbered Union troops held the Allatoona Pass, why Hood failed at Spring Hill and how the event has been perceived, and why so many of the Army of Tennessee’s officer corps died at the Battle of Franklin, where the Confederacy suffered a disastrous blow. An exciting inclusion is the diary of Confederate major general Patrick R. Cleburne, which covers the first phase of the campaign. Essays on the strained relationship between Ulysses S. Grant and George H. Thomas and on Thomas’s approach to warfare reveal much about the personalities involved, and chapters about civilians in the campaign’s path and those miles away show how the war affected people not involved in the fighting. An innovative case study of the fighting at Franklin investigates the emotional and psychological impact of killing on the battlefield, and other implications of the campaign include how the courageous actions of the U.S. Colored Troops at Nashville made a lasting impact on the African American community 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.
Author |
: Derek Smith |
Publisher |
: Stackpole Books |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2011-08-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780811744966 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0811744965 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis In the Lion's Mouth by : Derek Smith
Spellbinding account of the Confederates' retreat after their crushing defeat at the Battle of Nashville in December 1864.
Author |
: Benjamin Franklin Cooling |
Publisher |
: Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages |
: 545 |
Release |
: 2011-07-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781572337510 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1572337516 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis To the Battles of Franklin and Nashville and Beyond by : Benjamin Franklin Cooling
By 1864 neither the Union’s survival nor the South’s independence was any more apparent than at the beginning of the war. The grand strategies of both sides were still evolving, and Tennessee and Kentucky were often at the cusp of that work. The author examines the heartland conflict in all its aspects: the Confederate cavalry raids and Union counter-offensives; the harsh and punitive Reconstruction policies that were met with banditry and brutal guerrilla actions; the disparate political, economic, and socio-cultural upheavals; the ever-growing war weariness of the divided populations; and the climactic battles of Franklin and Nashville that ended the Confederacy’s hopes in the Western Theater.
Author |
: Stanley F. Horn |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 181 |
Release |
: 1968-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0870490877 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780870490873 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Decisive Battle of Nashville by : Stanley F. Horn
The Battle of Nashville, December 15-16, 1864, ended the Confederacy's last offensive action, removed the Confederate Army of Tennessee from the field as an effective fighting force, and realized the Union objective of turning the Confederate left. This book provides a blow-by-blow account of that engagement, employing the points of view of both Union and Confederate commanders and soldiers who were involved.
Author |
: James L. McDonough |
Publisher |
: Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1572333227 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781572333222 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nashville by : James L. McDonough
After Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's forces ravaged Atlanta in 1864, Ulysses S. Grant urged him to complete the primary mission Grant had given him: to destroy the Confederate Army in Georgia. Attempting to draw the Union army north, General John Bell Hood's Confederate forces focused their attacks on Sherman's supply line, the railroad from Chattanooga, and then moved across north Alabama and into Tennessee. As Sherman initially followed Hood's men to protect the railroad, Hood hoped to lure the Union forces out of the lower South and, perhaps more important, to recapture the long-occupied city of Nashville. Though Hood managed to cut communication between Sherman and George H. Thomas's Union forces by placing his troops across the railroads south of the city, Hood's men were spread over a wide area and much of the Confederate cavalry was in Murfreesboro. Hood's army was ultimately routed. Union forces pursued the Confederate troops for ten days until they recrossed the Tennessee River. The decimated Army of Tennessee (now numbering only about 15,000) retreated into northern Alabama and eventually Mississippi. Hood requested to be relieved of his command. Less than four months later, the war was over. Written in a lively and engaging style, Nashville presents new interpretations of the critical issues of the battle. James Lee McDonough sheds light on how the Union army stole past the Confederate forces at Spring Hill and their subsequent clash, which left six Confederate generals dead. He offers insightful analysis of John Bell Hood's overconfidence in his position and of the leadership and decision-making skills of principal players such as Sherman, George Henry Thomas, John M. Schofield, Hood, and others. Within the pages of Nashville, McDonough's subjects, both common soldiers and officers, present their unforgettable stories in their own words. Unlike most earlier studies of the battle of Nashville, McDonough's account examines the contributions of black Union regiments and gives a detailed account of the battle itself as well as its place in the overall military campaign. Filled with new information from important primary sources and fresh insights, Nashville will become the definitive treatment of a crucial battleground of the Civil War. James Lee McDonough is retired professor of history from Auburn University. He is the author of numerous books on the Civil War, including Shiloh--In Hell Before Night, Chattanooga--Death Grip on the Confederacy, and War in Kentucky: From Shiloh to Perryville.
Author |
: Winston Groom |
Publisher |
: Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 2007-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781555847845 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1555847846 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shrouds of Glory by : Winston Groom
The Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of Forrest Gump examines Confederate general John Bell Hood’s fateful maneuvers in the final moments of the Civil War. In Shrouds of Glory, acclaimed novelist and historian Winston Groom introduces readers to the courageous but reckless Hood, prematurely thrust into the spotlight by a combination of destiny and fate. Witness the unlikely rise of this young Confederate, who graduated forty-fourth out of a class of fifty-two at West Point, as he overcomes the nearly fatal amputation of his shattered leg and eventually devises a strategy to turn the tide of the war. Weaving together eyewitness accounts, journal entries, military communiqués, and newspaper headlines, Groom recreates the war from the charged battlefields to the general’s tent where Grant, Sherman, Lee, and others plotted their unorthodox strategies. He paints vivid portraits of the major players in the conflict, revealing the character, the faults, the emotions, and most of all the doubts that molded the course of the war. “Storytelling with energy, surprise, freshness, power, and yes, art.” —Chicago Tribune “Meticulously reconstructed . . . shows us the war in all its savagery.” —Los Angeles Times “An excellent introduction into a complex campaign.” —Publishers Weekly