The Army Of Tennessee In Retreat

Author : O.C. Hood
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476631905
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Army of Tennessee in Retreat written by O.C. Hood and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Impressively informative…essential”—Midwest Book Review “One of the most sustained discussions of this chapter of the war…often providing a novelist’s dramatic and poetic flourishes…[Hood] can be a gifted storyteller…riveting and compelling”—The Civil War Monitor Following the Battle of Nashville, Confederate General John Bell Hood’s Army of Tennessee was in full retreat, from the battle lines south of Nashville to the Tennessee River at the Alabama state line. Ferocious engagements broke out along the way as Hood’s small rearguard, harried by Federal Cavalry brigades, fought a 10-day running battle over 100 miles of impoverished countryside during one of the worst winters on record.

Author : John Bell Hood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advance and Retreat written by John Bell Hood and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The military autobiography of the Confederacy's most controversial general, from his 1853 graduation from West Point and subsequent duty in California and Texas (mainly on exploratory missions). Born a southern aristocrat, Hood unswervingly supported the Confederacy but was widely viewed as reckless with his commands. Hood lost an arm at Gettysburg, a leg at Chickamauga and Atlanta to Sherman.

Author : Christopher David Thrasher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781621906339
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suffering in the Army of Tennessee written by Christopher David Thrasher and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Generally, volumes in the Voices of the Civil War series are edited diaries, letter collections, or journals by a single soldier or civilian. In Christopher Thrasher's unique contribution to the series, Suffering in the Army of Tennessee, the author draws upon diaries, letters, newspapers, memoirs, official reports, and genealogical sources to capture from as many points of view as possible the experiences of ordinary soldiers in the Army of Tennessee from the Atlanta Campaign to the end of the war. In addition to extensive primary documentation, Thrasher provides context for understanding how events developed from 1864 to the total collapse of General John Bell Hood's forces. While volumes have been written on the Atlanta Campaign or the Battles of Nashville and Franklin, no previous historian has constructed what amounts to a sweeping social history of the Army of Tennessee"--

Author : John Bell Hood
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368627074
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies written by John Bell Hood and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.

Author : Lt.-General John Bell Hood
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786251418
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advance And Retreat: Personal Experiences In The United States And Confederate States Armies [Illustrated Edition] written by Lt.-General John Bell Hood and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack – 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities. “When John Bell Hood entered into the services of the Confederate Army, he was 29 years old, a handsome man and courageous soldier, loyal to the ideal of Confederate Independence and eager to fight for it. He led his men bravely into the battles of Second Manassas, Gaines’s Mill, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga. He rose fast, attaining the temporary rank of full general, only to fall faster. Hood emerged from the war with his left arm shattered and useless, his right leg missing, his face aged far beyond his 33 years, and with his military reputation in disgrace. Blamed by contemporaries for contributing to the defeat of his beloved Confederacy, Hood struggled to refute their accusations. His most vehement critic, General Johnston, charged Hood with insubordination while serving under him and, after succeeding him in command, of recklessly leading Confederate troops to their “slaughter” and “useless butchery.” Sherman, too, in his Memoirs, took a harsh view of Hood. Born of controversy, Advance and Retreat is of course a highly controversial book. It is also full of invaluable information and insights into the retreat from Dalton in early 1864, the fighting around Atlanta, and the disastrous Tennessee Campaign in winter of that year. Far from being a careful, sober, objective account, this book is the passionate, bitter attempt of a soldier to rebut history’s judgment of himself as general and man.”-Print ed.

Author : Paul H. Stockdale
Publisher : Southern Heritage Press (FL)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of an Army written by Paul H. Stockdale and published by Southern Heritage Press (FL). This book was released on 1992 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is, in effect, an eyewitness account of the aftermath of The Battle of Franklin, the advance on Nashville, the disastrous Battle of Nashville & the long retreat afterward. Mr. Stockdale has skillfully allowed the participants--both blue & grey--to speak for themselves. While this makes for exciting reading Stockdale, has also made a solid contribution to Confederate historiography by filling in those months from the Battle of Nashville until the final surrender. Most histories simply make a transition from Hood's defeat to the surrender in North Carolina. After Nashville, Forrest led the rear guard, & those who fought & died along the way added laurels, even in defeat, to an army already crowned in glory. The first thousand copies will be signed & autographed by the author. Send $17.95 (plus $2.00 shipping & handling) Check, Money Order, VISA/MasterCard to: Paul Stockdale, P.O. Box 34, Chappell Hill, TX 77426.

Author : Thomas Lawrence Connelly
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807127377
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Army of the Heartland written by Thomas Lawrence Connelly and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Stanley F. Horn
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806125657
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Army of Tennessee written by Stanley F. Horn and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Christopher L. Kolakowski
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614233446
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stones River and Tullahoma Campaigns: This Army Does Not Retreat written by Christopher L. Kolakowski and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go inside the story of the battles for Midle Tennessee in late 1862-63 through letters, reports and memoirs. After the Battle of Perryville in October 1862, the focus of the Civil War in the West shifted back to Tennessee. The Union Army of the Cumberland regrouped in Nashville, while the Confederate Army of Tennessee camped 30 miles away in Murfreesboro. On December 26 the Federals marched southward and fought a three-day brawl at Stones River with their Confederate counterparts. The Confederates withdrew, and both armies spent the winter and spring harassing each other and regrouping for the next round. In the Confederate camp, dissention corroded the army's high command. The critical engagement at Stones River (by percentage of loss the Civil War's bloodiest battle) and the masterful Tullahoma operation will receive detailed attention in this journey through the historic moment in time.

Author : Thomas Lawrence Connelly
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807127384
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Autumn of Glory written by Thomas Lawrence Connelly and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Fletcher Pratt Award and the Jefferson Davis Award A companion volume to Army of the Heartland Near the end of 1862 the Army of Tennessee began a long and frustrating struggle against overwhelming obstacles and ultimate defeat. Federal strength was growing, and after the Confederate surrender at Vicksburg, the total Union effort became concentrated against the Army of Tennessee. In the face of these external military problems, the army was also plagued with internal conflict, continuing command discord, and political intrigue. In Autumn of Glory, the final volume of Thomas Lawrence Connelly’s definitive history of one of the Confederacy’s two major military forces, Connelly analyzes the factors underlying the army’s failure during the last two years of the Civil War. The army’s military operations—including such major battles and campaigns as Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Kennesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Ezra Church, Jonesboro, and Bentonville—are viewed in perspective with its growing internal problems and the personality peculiarities of its commanders. In late 1863 a well-organized movement within the army against General Bragg failed. After his departure, a semblance of the anti-Bragg organization still remained, and subsequently the army’s leadership became embroiled in national Confederate politics. Connelly traces these growing problems of command discord and political intrigue and examines their disastrous effects upon the army’s political fortunes. Connelly’s first volume, Army of the Heartland, explores the military significance of the “heartland” of the Confederacy and covers the army’s operations from 1861 to late 1862. With the completion of these two volumes, the author has narrowed the historiographical gap between Lee’s Army of Virginia and the Confederacy’s “other army.”