Shrouds of Glory - From Atlanta to Nashville: The Last Great Campaign of the Civil War
by Winston Groom
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- Shrouds of Glory - From Atlanta to Nashville: The Last Great Campaign of the Civil War
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- Winston Groom
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- Atlantic Monthly Press (1995), Edition: 1st, Hardcover, 312 pages
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Shrouds of Glory focuses on Confederate General John Bell Hood's decisive actions in the western theater of operations during the final moments of the Civil War. The rich narrative takes us on a journey through the ravaged South to the once vibrant city of Nashville, where General Hood makes a last, futile attempt to preserve the Confederacy. Weaving eyewitness accounts, journal entries, military communiques, and newspaper headlines with his own straightforward narrative style, Groom show more constructs a meticulous and atmospheric re-creation of the war - especially the charged battlefields where general and foot soldier alike were thrown into the fray. Groom paints vivid portraits of the major players in the conflict, revealing the character, the faults, the emotions, and, most of all, the doubts that molded the course of the war. show lessTags
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The author of Forest Gump tells the story of the last Confederate army fighting under John Bell Hood in the final year of the war.
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Winston Groom is the author of 20 books, including Forrest Gump; The Aviators; Shiloh, 1862; and Conversations With the Enemy, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He served in Vietnam in 1966-67 and now lives in Point Clear, Alabama.
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- 1995
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- John Bell Hood (General); Nathan Bedford Forrest; Charles Francis Adams, Jr.; John Adams [General]; Edward Porter Alexander (as Colonel Porter Alexander); Frank Armstrong (show all 45); Edward A. Baker; Aaron Baldwin; Robert Banks; William Barksdale; William Brimage Bate; P. G. T. Beauregard (as Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard); R.T. Beauregard; Thomas Benton Smith; P.P. Bliss; John Wilkes Booth; Joseph Boyce; David F. Boyd; Joseph Boyer; Mary Bradford; Luther Bradley; Braxton Bragg; John Cabell Breckinridge (as John C. Breckinridge); John Calvin Brown; Don Carlos Buell; Abraham Buford; Robert Bullock; Ambrose E. Burnside; Denny Callahan; Ellison Capers; Fountain Branch Carter; John Carpenter Carter; Moscow Carter; Sallie Carter; Theodoric Carter; John S. Casement; James R. Chalmers (as James Chalmers); Salmon P. Chase; Nathaniel Cheairs; Benjamin Franklin Cheatham; John Chesnut; Mary Boykin Chesnut; Carroll Clark; Henry D. Clayton; Patrick Ronayne Cleburne (as Patrick Cleburne)
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- Nashville, Tennessee, USA; Allatoona, Georgia, USA; Andersonville Prison, Macon County, Georgia, USA; Antietam, Maryland, USA; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Chickamauga, Georgia, USA (show all 11); Chancellorsville, Virginia, USA; Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA; USA; Georgia, USA; Tennessee, USA
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- American Civil War (1861 | 1865); Battle of Allatoona; Battle of Antietam
- Epigraph
- "I buried death in the shroud of glory."
--Jean-Paul Sartre - Dedication
- To my great-grandfather, Fremont Sterling Thrower
56th Alabama Cavalry, Confederate States Army - Blurbers
- Dickey, James; Morris, Willie; McGuane, Thomas; Sears, Stephen W.; Brown, Ben; Thompson, Doug
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