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, "The Western Confederacy's
Final Gamble" 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.
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.
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