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Shrouds of glory : from Atlanta to Nashville--the last great campaign of the Civil War / Winston Groom.
LIBRA - Special E476.7 G76 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Groom, Winston, 1944-2020.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Atlanta Campaign, 1864.
- Nashville, Battle of, Nashville, Tenn., 1864.
- Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Georgia.
- History.
- Tennessee--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Tennessee.
- Tennessee--Nashville.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 308 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First Grove Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Grove Press, [1995]
- Summary:
- Shrouds of Glory is Winston Groom's riveting account of General John Bell Hood's decisive actions in the western theater of operations during the final moments of the Civil War. Taking us on a journey through the ravaged Confederacy to the once-vibrant city of Nashville-where General Hood makes a last, futile attempt to preserve the Confederacy-Shrouds of Glory brings the reader into the general's tent, where Grant, Sherman, Lee, and others plot their often unorthodox strategies for winning the war. Groom paints vivid portraits of Hood and his nemeses, revealing the character, faults, emotions, and most of all the doubts that molded the course of conflict.
- Contents:
- Midsummer's change
- I will go on while I can
- Crazy like a fox
- This army is going to do something wrong
- If you want it, come and take it
- They must be killed
- Conquer the peace
- Go on as you propose
- It is almost worth dying
- Best move come to naught
- Franklin, Tennessee
- Seeing the elephant
- An indescribable fury
- All those dead heroes
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Like a lot of beasts
- Didn't i tell you we could lick 'em?
- River of fire
- Black care was the outrider
- Bibliographical note on sources
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-298) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0802140610
- 9780802140616
- OCLC:
- 55022448
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