The Tennessee Campaign of 1864

"In this superb collection of essays, Steven Woodworth and Charles Grear have assembled a cavalcade of stars to contemplate the Tennessee Campaign of the fall of 1864, with emphasis placed on the battlefields of Franklin and Nashville. The essays, chock-full of new insights and a bounty of primary sources, cover everything from the commanders and the details of battle to the civilians forced to contemplate so much death and destruction. Additionally, a few authors consider the memory of the battle, as well as the failed and successful efforts to preserve the sites where the Army of Tennessee faced its final, tragic chapter."--Brian Craig Miller, author of John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory

''The Tennessee Campaign of 1864 is another fine addition to the Civil War Campaigns of the Heartland series, with material even the most diehard students of the campaign can freshly appreciate. With twelve more titles in the planning stages [for the series], one earnestly hopes that the positive momentum will continue.''--Civil War Books and Authors

"Editors Steven E. Woodworth, a professor of history at Texas Christian University, and Charles D. Grear, professor of history at Central Texas College, have filled in the scholarly gaps in this area with an excellent collection of essays in The Tennessee Campaign of 1864.
The majority of the essays make the point that after the fall of Atlanta to Sherman's army on September 1, 1864, the Southern Confederacy was a doomed dream. The following campaign in north Georgia and Middle Tennessee only prolonged the agony."--Dr. Wallace Cross, Austin Peay State University

"Considering the almost endless list of works on the American Civil War, one would think that everything has been covered; however, The Tennessee Campaign of 1864, a collection of essays edited by Steven E. Woodworth and Charles D. Grear, demonstrates that the field is still fertile. While historians have paid a great deal of attention to the Atlanta campaign and William T. Sherman's March to the Sea, they have paid much less attention to Confederate efforts to turn things around in the fall and winter of 1864, which culminated in the battle of Nashville." ---Scott Tarnowieckyi, Weatherford College