This text won both the Fletcher Pratt award and the Jefferson Davis award.
Thomas L. Connelly, professor of history at the University of South Carolina for many years, was the author or coauthor of numerous books on the Civil War, including The Politics of Command: Factions and Ideas in the Confederate Strategy (LSU Press, 1982, 1998), The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Society (Knopf, 1977; LSU Press, 1978), and God and General Longstreet: The Lost Cause and the Southern Mind (LSU Press, 1982, 1995).
A well-researched, well-written account of the disastrous end of
the Army of Tennessee.-- "New York Times Book Review"
Thomas Connelly follows the Army of Tennessee from the renewed
offensive of General Braxton Bragg, which began near Murfreesboro,
Tennessee, in late 1862, to the lingering days of retreat and
defeat in North Carolina in 1865. With meticulous research and
careful interpretation, he traces this army's actions as it
dramatically defends but loses mile after mile in battle after
dreary battle in the 'heartland' of the South--thus sealing the
Confederacy's doom. . . . This book is destined to join the library
of Civil War military classics. . . . It may be equaled by
historians writing about the Civil War in the West, but it will not
be surpassed.-- "American Historical Review"
With this work, Connelly takes a place in the forward ranks of
Civil War historians, North and South. His grasp is sure, his prose
superb. . . . [The book] has an abundance of fresh viewpoints,
reveals an intimacy not only with the records and books but also
with the terrain of the battlefields and campaigns, and shows a
clear insight into the characters of important generals.-- "Florida
Historical Quarterly"
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