The Chessboard of War: Sherman and Hood in the Autumn Campaigns of 1864 (Great Campaigns of the Civil War) - Tapa dura

"The Chessboard of War is an engaging look at the interconnectedness of two campaigns and the relationships between battlefront and homefront." -- Lisa Tendrich Frank "The South Carolina Historical Magazine" "Bailey correctly views Sherman's March to the Sea' and Hood's ill-fated Tennessee campaign as two halves of the whole.'(xv) She skillfully interweaves social, politial, economic, and military issues. The result is a synthesis in the style of the new' military history that offers a more comprehensive look at war and its impact on society. . . . An insightful model for integrating political, social, and economic issues into military history in an interesting narrative-not an easy task."-John D. Fowler, West Virginia History -- John D. Fowler "West Virginia History" ""The Chessboard of War" is an engaging look at the interconnectedness of two campaigns and the relationships between battlefront and homefront."--Lisa Tendrich Frank, "The South Carolina Historical Magazine"--Lisa Tendrich Frank "The South Carolina Historical Magazine " "Bailey correctly views Sherman's 'March to the Sea' and Hood's ill-fated Tennessee campaign as 'two halves of the whole.'(xv) She skillfully interweaves social, politial, economic, and military issues. The result is a synthesis in the style of the 'new' military history that offers a more comprehensive look at war and its impact on society. . . . An insightful model for integrating political, social, and economic issues into military history in an interesting narrative--not an easy task."--John D./i>--John D. Fowler "West Virginia History "

No aspect of Civil War history is more fascinating than the two major campaigns that took place in the western theater in late 1864. The opposing generals, William T. Sherman and John Bell Hood, took armies that had been fighting for months and headed them away from each other: Hood marched north into Tennessee, and Sherman marched south into Georgia. As Sherman himself noted, "It surely was a strange event; two hostile armies marching in opposite directions, each in the full belief that it was achieving a final and conclusive result in a great war". Hood went on to catastrophic defeat at Franklin and Nashville, while Sherman successfully moved through Georgia to the coast. Many books deal with either Sherman's march or Hood's Tennessee campaign, but although they unfolded simultaneously and concluded the main fighting in the western theater, no recent volume analyzes the two together. In her groundbreaking study, Anne J. Bailey assesses how military events in Georgia and Tennessee intertwined and affected the political, social, and economic conditions in those areas and throughout the nation. Anne J. Bailey is a history professor at Georgia College & State University. She has written several books, including (with Walter J. Fraser Jr.) "Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Georgia in the Civil War".