num_pages: 456
description: Operating in the vast trans-Appalachian west the Army of Tennessee was crucially important to the military fate of the Confederacy. But under the principal leadership of generals such as Braxton Bragg Joseph E. Johnston and John Bell Hood it won few major battles and many regard its inability to halt steady Union advances into the Confederate heartland as a failure at the top. Here military historian Larry J. Daniel offers a far richer interpretation. Surpassing previous work that has focused on questions of command structure and the force's fate on the fields of battle Daniel provides the clearest view to date of the army's inner workings from top-level command and unit cohesion to the varied experiences of common soldiers and their connections to the home front. Drawing from his mastery of the key sources Daniel's book is a thought-provoking reassessment of an army's fate with important implications for Civil War history and military history writ large.
language: English
title: Conquered: Why the Army of Tennessee Failed
publisher: The University of North Carolina Press