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Like most of the Union armies of the Civil War, the Army of the Tennessee was named after a river, and it was made up of volunteers often under the command of generals from the regular U.S. Army. In NOTHING BUT VICTORY, historian Steven Woodworth draws on the soldiers' personal writings, letters, and diaries to tell how Union victories in the West, including the battles of Shiloh and Vicksburg, contributed to the Union victory. He tells how the Army of the Tennessee, first under General Grant and later under General William Tecumseh Sherman, hammered the enemy while also gaining battlefield experience and developing more precise soldiering skills. He also tells how these soldiers from the west came to realize what was at stake, and he recounts the high cost of these campaigns, on both sides, as he follows the Army of the Tennessee from the beginning of the war, when thousands answered Lincoln's call, through victory.
| Size | | Length: | 760 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 6.8 in | | Thickness: | 2.2 in | | Weight: | 44.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
[A]rguably the best one-volume history written to date of a Civil War field army. Combining impeccable scholarship and comfortable style, Woodworth describes a force whose tone was set by volunteer regiments from the farms and small towns of the Mississippi Valley...."
Publishers Weekly (09/05/2005)
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