The Greatest Calamity (eBook)

Tennessee in the Civil War Era

John D. Fowler (Autor)

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2025 | 1., First Edition
354 Seiten
University of Tennessee Press (Verlag)
979-8-89527-024-0 (ISBN)

Infos

An essential primer for students of Tennessee history.The first volume in the revived Three Star Series."e;This is the greatest calamity that could befall us,"e; wrote Sallie Gannaway Jamison in 1861, echoing the fears of a generation of Tennesseans. Over the next four years, the Civil War would upend the lives of more than a million residents of the Volunteer State-soldiers and civilians, free and enslaved.The last state to secede and the first to fall to Federal forces, Tennessee played a pivotal role in the war's political, military, and industrial struggles. Crisscrossed by key rail lines and blanketed by rich farmland, the struggle to control it fueled both Union and Confederate war efforts. More than 450 battles-at Shiloh, Stones River, Chattanooga, and beyond-turned the state's landscape into hallowed ground.John D. Fowler argues in his introduction that "e;one cannot understand the Civil War without understanding the Volunteer State's role in it."e; The Greatest Calamity: Tennessee in the Civil War Era, the first title in the University of Tennessee Press's revived Three Star Series, offers a fresh, accessible take on this history. Expanding on Thomas Connelly's Civil War Tennessee: Battles and Leaders (1979), Fowler integrates new perspectives on the home front, Reconstruction, and the struggles of freed people, making this volume essential reading for students, scholars, and history enthusiasts alike.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.12.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Three Star Series
• Zusatzinfo: 45 photos and 14 color maps
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 130 x 130 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Albert Sidney Johnston • Alexander P. Stewart • Andrew Jackson Smith • Battle of Campbell’s Station • Battle of Chattanooga • battle of chickamauga • Battle of Collierville • Battle of Dandridge • Battle of Fair Garden • Battle of Fort Donelson • Battle of Fort Henry • Battle of Fort Sanders • Battle of Franklin • Battle of Hartsville • Battle of Hoover’s Gap • Battle of Johnsonville • Battle of Lookout Mountain • Battle of Memphis • Battle of Missionary Ridge • Battle of Mossy Creek • Battle of Nashville • Battle of Parker’s Cross Roads • battle of shiloh • Battle of Stones River • Battle of Wauhatchie • Benjamin Cheatham • Braxton Bragg • Bushrod Johnson • Civil War in Tennessee • Civil War Tennessee campaigns • Confederate Army of Tennessee • Cumberland River • David G. Farragut • Don Carlos Buell • Earl Van Dorn • Edward C. Walthall • Felix Zollicoffer • George H. Thomas • Gideon J. Pillow • Gordon Granger • Jacob D. Cox • James B. McPherson • james longstreet • John A. McClernand • John Bell Hood • John C. Breckinridge • John Hunt Morgan • John Schofield • Joseph E. Johnston • Leonidas Polk • Nathan Bedford Forrest • Patrick Cleburne • Richard Taylor • Samuel R. Curtis • Simon Bolivar Buckner • Stephen D. Lee • Tennessee Civil War • Tennessee Civil War battles • Tennessee Civil War Books • Tennessee Homefront • Tennessee military history • Tennessee Reconstruction • Tennessee River • Thomas J. Wood • Three Star • Ulysses S. Grant • Union Army of the Cumberland • Union Army of the Ohio • Union Army of the Tennessee • Western Theater of the Civil War • William B. Bate • William J. Hardee • William Tecumseh Sherman
• ISBN-13: 979-8-89527-024-0 / 9798895270240