Autumn of Glory

Autumn of Glory - Cover

The Army of Tennessee, 1862-1865

by Thomas Lawrence Connelly

Jules and Frances Landry Award

558 pages / 6.12 x 9.25 inches / 14 halftones, 8 maps

History / United States - Civil War Period

Paperback / 9780807127384 / August 2001

“[Connelly] follows the Army of Tennessee from the renewed offensive of General Braxton Bragg, which began near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in late 1862, to the lingering days of retreat and defeat in North Carolina in 1865. With meticulous research and careful interpretation, he traces this army’s actions as it dramatically defends but loses mile after mile in battle after dreary battle in the ‘heartland’ of the South—thus sealing the Confederacy’s doom. . . . This book. . . . may be equaled by historians writing about the Civil War in the West, but it will not be surpassed.”—American Historical Review

“With this work, [Connelly] takes a place in the forward ranks of Civil War historians, North and South. His grasp is sure, his prose superb.”—Florida Historical Quarterly

Thomas Lawrence Connelly, professor of history at the University of South Carolina for many years, was the author or coauthor of numerous books on the Civil War, including The Politics of Command: Factions and Ideas in Confederate Strategy; The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Society; and God and General Longstreet: The Lost Cause and the Southern Mind.

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