Shrouds of Glory From Atlanta to Nashville: The Last Great Campaign of the Civil War

by Groom, Winston

• ISBN13: 9780802140616
• ISBN10: 0802140610
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-05
• Publisher: Grove Press

Summary

Shrouds of Glory is the riveting account of Confederate General John Bell Hood's audacious attempt to vanquish the Union on the western front during the final months of the Civil War. Following the Army of Tennessee from defeat in Atlanta to heartbreak in Franklin to the devastating, controversial battle on the outskirts of Nashville that finally ended the Confederacy's last great offensive, acclaimed novelist and historian Winston Groom takes us into the general's tent, brilliantly combining eyewitness accounts, journal entries, and military communiques to reveal the character, faults, emotions, and, most of all, the doubts that molded one of history's most significant campaigns. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Winston Groom is the author of thirteen books, including Forrest Gump, Better Times Than These, As Summers Die, A Storm in Flanders, and Conversations With the Enemy, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 1
A Midsummer's Change	p. 5
I Will Go On While I Can	p. 26
Crazy Like a Fox	p. 46
This Army Is Going to Do Something Wrong	p. 59
If You Want It, Come and Take It	p. 71
They Must Be Killed	p. 82
To Conquer the Peace	p. 97
Go On As You Propose	p. 109
It Is Almost Worth Dying	p. 122
The Best Move Come to Naught	p. 136
Franklin, Tennessee	p. 156
Seeing the Elephant	p. 168
An Indescribable Fury	p. 182
All Those Dead Heroes	p. 207
Nashville, Tennessee	p. 221
Like a Lot of Beasts	p. 236
Didn't I Tell You We Could Lick 'Em?	p. 253
A River of Fire	p. 266
Black Care Was the Outrider	p. 276
Bibliographical Note on Sources	p. 293
Index	p. 299
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