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Does anyone have any recommendations for a good book about the Battle of Nashville and/or the subsequent Confederate retreat?
Thank you
Ken
Thank you
Ken
The Confederacy's Last Hurrah by Wiley Sword covers Nashville, along with Spring Hill and Franklin.
I am a little late to this thread but I appreciate that book recommendation. Making a second visit to Nashville this November. I have read several books about Franklin but nothing in-depth about Nashville. I want to know more about it for this visit. Just ordered that book at Abebooks for a grand total of $4.17.Unfortunately, the best book still available on the Battle of Nashville is Stanley Horn's "Decisive Battle of Nashville" written many years ago. I say unfortunate because there is a lot of new material available now, and although there are some minor inaccuracies in Horn's book, it is the best by far.
Agree. Nashville by James Lee McDonough is much more recent (2004), but it's the usual superficial McDonough style and really doesn't add much to Horn - which, as you point out, is seriously dated.Unfortunately, the best book still available on the Battle of Nashville is Stanley Horn's "Decisive Battle of Nashville" written many years ago. I say unfortunate because there is a lot of new material available now, and although there are some minor inaccuracies in Horn's book, it is the best by far.
Does anyone have any recommendations for a good book about the Battle of Nashville and/or the subsequent Confederate retreat?
Thank you
Ken
Wiley Sword is highly regarded, but he's also one of the worst offenders in the Hood Haters club.
Winston Groom
Yes. I believe this book is the best single treatment of the retreat. But the most in depth treatment is the combination of Belcher’s book from Nashville to Columbia and Gen. John Scales’ book on Forrest from Columbia, where Forrest assumed command of the rear guard, to the Tennessee River.
Really!!! That bad??I bought that book upon its release and it was so full of errors of fact, not interpretation, I returned it as defective and got my money back.