About the Author

Thomas L. Connelly professor of history at 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 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).

Reviews

Connelly's analysis of the geographical, economic, and psychological factors that molded Confederate strategy in the Tennessee Valley is a thoroughly original contribution, both in conception and information presented. . . . Undoubtedly the outstanding feature of the work is Connelly's evaluation of the personalities and performances of the various commanders of the Army of Tennessee. . . . [Army of the Heartland] is, without question, one of the best military studies of the war to appear in a long time, and it establishes Connelly as the authority on his subject.-- "Civil War History"