Six Armies In Tennessee
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Author |
: Steven E. Woodworth |
Publisher |
: U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 1999-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0803235992 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780803235991 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Six Armies in Tennessee by : Steven E. Woodworth
When Vicksburg fell to Union forces under General Grant in July 1863, the balance turned against the Confederacy in the trans-Appalachian theater. The Federal success along the river opened the way for advances into central and eastern Tennessee, which culminated in the battle of Chickamauga and then a struggle for the strategically important city of Chattanooga. Chickamauga, one of the bloodiest battles in a war noted for carnage, is usually counted as a Confederate victory, albeit a costly one. That battle - indeed the entire campaign - is marked by muddle and blunders occasionally relieved by strokes of brilliant generalship and high courage. The campaign ended significant Confederate presence in Tennessee. It also left the Union poised for advance upon Atlanta and the Confederacy on the brink of defeat in the western theater.
Author |
: Larry J. Daniel |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 457 |
Release |
: 2019-03-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469649511 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469649519 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Conquered by : Larry J. Daniel
Operating in the vast and varied trans-Appalachian west, the Army of Tennessee was crucially important to the military fate of the Confederacy. But under the principal leadership of generals such as Braxton Bragg, Joseph E. Johnston, and John Bell Hood, it won few major battles, and many regard its inability to halt steady Union advances into the Confederate heartland as a matter of failed leadership. Here, esteemed military historian Larry J. Daniel offers a far richer interpretation. Surpassing previous work that has focused on questions of command structure and the force's fate on the fields of battle, Daniel provides the clearest view to date of the army's inner workings, from top-level command and unit cohesion to the varied experiences of common soldiers and their connections to the home front. Drawing from his mastery of the relevant sources, Daniel's book is a thought-provoking reassessment of an army's fate, with important implications for Civil War history and military history writ large.
Author |
: Stanley F. Horn |
Publisher |
: University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages |
: 532 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0806125659 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780806125657 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Army of Tennessee by : Stanley F. Horn
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.
Author |
: Steven E. Woodworth |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 796 |
Release |
: 2006-10-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780375726606 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0375726608 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nothing but Victory by : Steven E. Woodworth
Composed almost entirely of Midwesterners and molded into a lean, skilled fighting machine by Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, the Army of the Tennessee marched directly into the heart of the Confederacy and won major victories at Shiloh and at the rebel strongholds of Vicksburg and Atlanta.Acclaimed historian Steven Woodworth has produced the first full consideration of this remarkable unit that has received less prestige than the famed Army of the Potomac but was responsible for the decisive victories that turned the tide of war toward the Union. The Army of the Tennessee also shaped the fortunes and futures of both Grant and Sherman, liberating them from civilian life and catapulting them onto the national stage as their triumphs grew. A thrilling account of how a cohesive fighting force is forged by the heat of battle and how a confidence born of repeated success could lead soldiers to expect “nothing but victory.”
Author |
: Larry J. Daniel |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2003-11-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0807855529 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780807855522 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Soldiering in the Army of Tennessee by : Larry J. Daniel
In Soldiering in the Army of Tennessee Larry Daniel has given us a fascinating and important book on the rank and file Confederates who fought those battles.
Author |
: Jack H. Lepa |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2015-05-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476604671 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476604673 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Civil War in Tennessee, 1862-1863 by : Jack H. Lepa
In 1862, with the outcome of the Civil War far from sure, leaders on both sides began to pinpoint places vital for their army's success. For both Union and Confederate forces, Tennessee was a prize. Drawing on contemporary sources such as memoirs and official correspondence, this book details the struggle for control of Tennessee during 1862 and 1863. It follows troop movements through some of1the worst battles, including Shiloh, Stone's River and Chickamauga. The Union victory at the battle of Chattanooga--which brought Tennessee definitively under Union control--and its consequences for both sides are discussed in detail.
Author |
: Steven E. Woodworth |
Publisher |
: SIU Press |
Total Pages |
: 220 |
Release |
: 2010-05-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780809385560 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0809385562 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Chickamauga Campaign by : Steven E. Woodworth
From mid-August to mid-September 1863, Union major general William S. Rosecrans’s Army of the Cumberland maneuvered from Tennessee to north Georgia in a bid to rout Confederate general Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee and blaze the way for further Union advances. Meanwhile, Confederate reinforcements bolstered the numbers of the Army of Tennessee, and by the time the two armies met at the Battle of Chickamauga, in northern Georgia, the Confederates had gained numerical superiority. Although the Confederacy won its only major victory west of the Appalachians, it failed to achieve the truly decisive results many high-ranking Confederates expected. In The Chickamauga Campaign,Steven E. Woodworth assembles eight thought-provoking new essays from an impressive group of authors to offer new insight into the complex reasons for this substantial, yet ultimately barren, Confederate victory. This broad collection covers every angle of the campaign, from its prelude to its denouement, from the points of view of key players of all ranks on both sides. In addition to analyzing the actions taken by Union leaders Thomas L. Crittenden, Alexander McCook, and James S. Negley, and Confederate commanders Braxton Bragg, Patrick Cleburne, Daniel Harvey Hill, Thomas C. Hindman, James Longstreet, and Alexander P. Stewart, the book probes the campaign’s impact on morale in the North and South, and concludes with an essay on the campaign’s place in Civil War memory. The final essay pays particular attention to Union veteran Henry Van Ness Boynton, the founder and developer of Chickamauga and Chattanooga State Military Park, whose achievements helped shape how the campaign would be remembered. This second volume in the Civil War Campaigns in the Heartland seriesprovides a profound understanding of the campaign’s details as well as its significance to Civil War history. Contributors: John R. Lundberg Alexander Mendoza David Powell Ethan S. Rafuse William G. Robertson Timothy B. Smith Lee White Steven E. Woodworth
Author |
: Thomas Lawrence Connelly |
Publisher |
: LSU Press |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 2001-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 080712737X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780807127377 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (7X Downloads) |
Synopsis Army of the Heartland by : Thomas Lawrence Connelly
A companion volume to Autumn of Glory Most of the Civil War was fought on Southern soil. The responsibility for defending the Confederacy rested with two great military forces. One of these armies defended the “heartland” of the Confederacy—a vital area which embraced the state of Tennessee and large portions of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Kentucky. This is the story of that army—the first detailed study to be based upon research in manuscript collections and the first to explore the military significance of the heartland. The Army of Tennessee faced problems and obstacles far more staggering than any encountered by the other great Confederate force. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Lee’s army was charged with the defense of an area considerably smaller in size. And while Lee’s line of defense extended only about 125 miles, the front defended by the Army of Tennessee stretched for some 400 miles. Yet the Army of the Heartland has heretofore been given relatively slight attention by historians. With this volume Thomas Lawrence Connelly, a native Tennessean, has brought Confederate military history more nearly into balance. Throughout the war the Army of Tennessee was plagued by ineffective leadership. There were personality conflicts between commanding generals and corps commanders and breakdowns in communications with the Confederate government at Richmond. Lacking the leadership of a Lee, the Army of Tennessee failed to attain a real esprit at the corps level. Instead, the common soldiers, sensing the quarrelsome nature of their leaders, developed at regimental and brigade levels their own peculiar brand of morale which sustained them through continuous defeats. Connelly analyzes the influence and impact of each successive commander of the Army. His conclusions regarding Confederate command and leadership are not the conventional ones.
Author |
: Steven E. Woodworth |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 943 |
Release |
: 2007-12-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307427069 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307427064 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nothing but Victory by : Steven E. Woodworth
Composed almost entirely of Midwesterners and molded into a lean, skilled fighting machine by Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, the Army of the Tennessee marched directly into the heart of the Confederacy and won major victories at Shiloh and at the rebel strongholds of Vicksburg and Atlanta.Acclaimed historian Steven Woodworth has produced the first full consideration of this remarkable unit that has received less prestige than the famed Army of the Potomac but was responsible for the decisive victories that turned the tide of war toward the Union. The Army of the Tennessee also shaped the fortunes and futures of both Grant and Sherman, liberating them from civilian life and catapulting them onto the national stage as their triumphs grew. A thrilling account of how a cohesive fighting force is forged by the heat of battle and how a confidence born of repeated success could lead soldiers to expect “nothing but victory.”
Author |
: Darrell L. Collins |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2017-05-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476668215 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476668213 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Army of Tennessee by : Darrell L. Collins
The Army of Tennessee was officially designated November 20, 1862. But that was not the beginning of the Confederate main fighting force in the Civil War's Western Theater. Before that date it was known as the Army of Mississippi (or the Army of the West), a command organized on March 5, with its area of operations between the Mississippi River and the Appalachian Mountains. That army was formed of the Army of Central Kentucky, the Army of Louisiana and elements of the Army of Pensacola, following the Confederate disaster at Fort Donelson. The force was led by a succession of commoners--P.G.T. Beauregard, Albert Sydney Johnston and Braxton Bragg--and had a series of defeats, from Shiloh to Corinth to Perryville, before winning a spectacular victory at Chickamauga. Based on the Official Records, this book details the often neglected army's organization, strength and casualties during its three year history.