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LibraryThing member dhughes
The author shows Southern favoritism and tends to excuse some of the mistakes that the Southern generals committed. However he condemns both Bragg and Hood for mismanaging the key battles and even calls Hood a liar. The author uses many newspaper sources, which is rather new in history books on
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Civil War. He also uses a lot of diary information from participants than is traditionally used. It is well written and is an excellent work and well worth the read. Show Less
Publication
University of Oklahoma Press (1993), Edition: Reprint, Paperback
Description
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.
Subjects
Original publication date
1941
Physical description
503 p.; 9.27 inches
Pages
503
ISBN
0806125659 / 9780806125657