Guide to Civil War Nashville
Nashville was one of the largest battles of the Civil War yet there is no preserved battlefield there. The city was captured by Union forces in 1862; occupied and developed by the U.S. Army for the next three years; and attacked in 1864 by Confederate forces under General John Bell Hood. In this book, I tried to tell the story of this conquered yet defiant city which was transformed by military developments. The Battle of Nashville was decisive in that it was a complete Union victory over the attacking Confederates, and that it essentially ended the major fighting in the Western Theater. Although there is no national park here, dozens of small sites have been rescued and enhanced in the past 20 years.